Re: Theories of lead and follow

memiki wrote:

Hi Ron --If "one can do a lot and teach a lot without knowing exactly
what one is doing or how things really work", methinks in dancing it
applies only to teaching beginner basics, if that. Anyone can teach....
but it does not mean they can teach.

IMO without personal and practical experience on the dance floor and a
background of studying with other worthy teachers, the instructor has
nothing to share of his/her own or pass along to students. A worthy
teacher acquires and teaches subtleties, precision, delicate shadings
of movement, Etc............... many of which are learned on the floor
and are the results of studying and experience. Having said that, there
can be a worthy teacher who has knowledge of music and how the body
works, with a limited dance background --

Not at all - many teachers explain dancing to their students not in
terms of what actually happens, but in allusion to shared experiences
of "natural" human movement. Obviously this only works when the
teacher and student have enough baseline experiences in common...
which suggests that many students who typical teachers cannot "reach"
are ones who need a more detailed/accurate instruction in fundamental
actions than the teacher is in the habit of providing. Since such
learning is difficult, not only must the teacher be prepared to offer
the details, the student must be determined enough to study them.

.

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