25 Jun
2013
25 Jun
'13
2:05 a.m.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013, Michael Barraclough wrote:
Personally, if there is a significant number of new dancers, I try to
avoid using technical terms for figures until I have taught them. I
know that 'advanced' dancers hate this. However, my experience is that
this is much more effective (try watching the most effective callers and
you will see that this mostly what they do). Yes - advanced dancers can
help new dancers if they know what they are going to be doing. However,
this usually doesn't happen. What does happen is that the advanced
dancers launch themselves into the figure and the new dancer cannot see
what has happened and gets confused.
The problem is that experienced dancers with hearing impairments (like
me) often don't hear calls, so the more words you use, the more likely it
is that a critical bit will get missed. Better to do it both ways,
something like this: "I'm going to walk you through a new call, for the
experienced dancers it's called a 'hey'. Let's start with ..."
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