Archive for the 'Instructing' Category
Sorry for the long dormant period of this blog! School has been demanding, what can I say? But I will be trying to get some more posts in.
This is for those dancers that have trouble dancing “passionately”. Your dance instructors keep telling you that you lack passion, but how do you obtain it?
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I know I write about consistent schedules a lot, and I can’t stress how important it is!
Lots of dancers never have time for anything, and this is a somewhat true statement. Mostly the problem with scheduling is in high school, where it can sometimes be hard to find places to practice all the time (though [...]
When you create the routine, you need to make sure that it’s challenging, interesting, appealing to the audience, etc. That’s the obvious. You also have to make sure that it is capable of being 98% perfect.
A difficult routine is great, but a difficult routine performed poorly is just as bad as a boring routine. Challenge [...]
Trying to get everyone to practice is tough! Drillers have their own lives outside of school and sometimes can’t work around the schedule. Don’t you wish you could freeze time?
So in the case that you can’t freeze time, what can you do to get everyone to practice? Working with missing members is difficult, so [...]
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New articles will be added there. All the old articles from this site are there as well. Enjoy!
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A whole lot of time is spent at practice being unproductive because some people still don’t know the routine. And as a captain or even a team member, you start thinking, “why do [...]