Friday, February 10, 2012

MAKE EVERY NOTE PERSONAL

Have you ever been in a dance class and the teacher takes time throughout the class to point our personal corrections. He usually waltzes over to a dancer and gives something specific for that dancer to consider. Every good teacher takes the time to correct their students.

During these few moments in class we have 3 options:
1) check-out and wait for the personal time with another dancer to be over
2) Acknowledge the imperfection of my dance mate and silently put ourselves in the position of “teacher” (i.e. she really should fix that)
3) MAKE THE NOTE PERSONAL TO ME

Today’s daily dance note is MAKE EVERY NOTE PERSONAL. I learned a few years back that one of the chief ways to improve as a dancer was to take every note given in a class as my own. When a note goes from general to personal, I pretend the teacher is standing by me and sharing this nugget with me. I even physicalize the note on the spot as the other dancer works to demonstrate the more correct version of the exercise. If we make all notes personal we stay engaged in the class, learn more, and build a healthy rapport with our other dance mates.

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