15 Dec
2009
15 Dec
'09
7:48 p.m.
Agreed!
I would also add - how to do the same with "community-building": how to make
people feel welcome, glad to be there, relaxed with the other dancers,
friendly, and full of good humor, all without being preachy.
M
E
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing <
winston(a)slac.stanford.edu> wrote:
David wrote:
--
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance. ~ William Butler Yeats
So, what are topics that _you_ would like to see
in a workshop? Assuming
that
one already has the nuts and bolts of programming
an evening, teaching a
dance,
and delivering the calls in good fashion, what
skills would be useful to
address?
How to teach/sell 'good dancing' without seeming like a pedant. (It seems
like
it's an easy trap for callers in all country dance genres to aim for
competence/efficiency in teaching _dances_, and neglect teaching _dancing_.
You pretty much have to slip that style/skill instruction in while teaching
dances, and that's a skill in itself.)
-- Alan
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