Re: [Callers] Advice teaching teens

Hi David, Amy, Andrea, and Mac, Thank you all for your helpful tips. We had our first session (7 till 9) last night at a nice little country hall in Loburn an hour north of CHCH. 28 teens showed up with a few parents. One of our regular experienced dancers Bev came along to help. The main goal was for them to have fun. We did 6 dances. I ran most dances twice. Before doing it again Bev and I would show them one or two things they could do to make it more fun (i.e. a flourish on the dosido, clap or stomp on the beat), and then second time with much less prompting. I started off with an easy mixer. Did 3 contras two of which went well. I misjudged the difficulty of one and flagged it. After that on, I did "Waves of Tory" which a lot of them were keen on, then finished with a scatter type mixer. Amy's 'arrowhead' teaching tip for swings was great. So we'll do it again next week. My pay was one jar of clover honey from one of their parent's hives. Cheers, Bill