When I first danced, I couldn’t get the hey for weeks and weeks until someone drew a
figure 8 with an extra loop on a blackboard for me. Then it all made sense.
For that reason, now, I keep a large hand-drawn with dark thick magic marker figure 8 with
extra loop on a piece of stiff light paper (like a manilla folder thickness) that I can
hold up and show briefly as I am teaching the figure. It doesn’t get everyone, but it gets
people like me. There are always one or two -
“ahas” that I hear. I could never learn it from the pass this shoulder or that
instruction. I needed the floor pattern. Everyone learns differently.
Martha
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