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Subject: routines
From: pullgees (clive abbey)
Date: Wednesday 5th March 2003, 6:41 pm

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i tend to agree with what you are saying
 i come from a sport back ground where good coaches always talk about core skills the stuff that makes everything else work
 shame you are not in the London area , there is a work shop called the move machine run by salsarapido, it lays the class out like circuit training with four instructors forming workstations you spend 10 minutes with each instructor then move on rotating round the class time permiting you complete 2 circuits learn 8 short routines:very simular to Robert Charlamagne video approach and with different instructors lots of contrast,

 i'v always thought advanced dancers would benifit more from technique classes ,take a move then learn every variation of that move forward backwards what can it lead to ? where can it go ?how's it led? really know just that move inside out, would be nice on those occasions when you are dancing with a woman who's smiles makes your brain misfire and blank, to have something short and sweet to pull out give yu time to recover. maybe if instuctors took the 'shorts' approach to teaching they would run out of material ?
 

  i think you would be suprised how many dancers in london do actually dance in memorised class routines,and i sopposed it is better than having a class with not enough to occupy your mind,
 recently did a lambada class based on man turn woman turn man turn , that was the routine.
 

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Well len I like the sound of that method and the idea of discovering the possibilties of a move what it could lead to etc. Yes this would be for advanced dancers because you can't throw too many possibilties at an improver or they will get lost.

I went to a party in Bournmouth last Saturday and there was a guest teacher who did the lesson. My worst scenario came true, a really long routine with difficult moves some of which were stupid and completley unleadable. I really can't understand what he was thinking of. Half of what we did would have been ample and the class might have finished feeling they had learned something and gained some confidence. I didn't see anyone dance any of what he taught.

   
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