My belly dance teacher has asked me to join her to create a troupe and help her teach classes, any advice?
It’s my first official belly dance class. I’ve been studying belly dance at home with educational DVDs. My teacher is very excited to see me entering her class and go beyond the rest of the group of students. And she’s asked me to help her create a dance troupe with her. I accepted. And she wants my help with the oncoming Fall classes to help teach the students about posture and new belly dance moves. Got any tips for me on my new job?
Helping teach newer dancers is great. My daughter started taking classes about 3 years after I did. Since her class was immediately before mine, I was there for both classes. My instructor wouldn’t let me just watch, of course. I usually stayed to the side of the group and helped by taking aside those who were having problems with a particular movement. Helping others actually helped me to learn the movements much better myself. I had to really understand the movement so I could explain it clearly to others. You could go through various movements and pretend that you are trying to explain it to another dancer, so you will be more comfortable when you are actually breaking it down and explaining it to someone else.
You may want to ask your teacher what it is that she expects from a troupe and the roles and tasks that she wants you to handle within the troupe.
Good luck!!!
September 28th, 2009 at 5:09 am
Just do it. Obviously you’re good and you know what you’re doing. You’ll do fine. Congradulations. I want to learn to belly dance.
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September 28th, 2009 at 5:49 am
if you enjoy something then do it,, too many times we hate our jobs,,
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September 28th, 2009 at 6:13 am
If I were you I would do it because from the sounds of it you seem like you are good. And you might even make money from helping teach the classes, and if you do then you will have a job you enjoy doing.
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September 28th, 2009 at 6:41 am
will be very care in job
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September 28th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Helping teach newer dancers is great. My daughter started taking classes about 3 years after I did. Since her class was immediately before mine, I was there for both classes. My instructor wouldn’t let me just watch, of course. I usually stayed to the side of the group and helped by taking aside those who were having problems with a particular movement. Helping others actually helped me to learn the movements much better myself. I had to really understand the movement so I could explain it clearly to others. You could go through various movements and pretend that you are trying to explain it to another dancer, so you will be more comfortable when you are actually breaking it down and explaining it to someone else.
You may want to ask your teacher what it is that she expects from a troupe and the roles and tasks that she wants you to handle within the troupe.
Good luck!!!
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belly dancer 7 years