If your teacher does this, run away
(Warning signals to pay attention to)
‼️‼️‼️What kind of feedback he/she gives to students ?‼️‼️‼️
👉Unfortunately, some teachers use a trick of only saying good things and compliments to students in order to create emotional attachment. Students become addicted to this euphoria of feeling how awesome they are, so they come back for it again and again. It makes them a happy person, but usually not so good dancer.
👉On the other hand, if teacher is only criticizing and pointing out mistakes, it can be a signal of low confidence. Such an approach will push you to train harder, but it’s not sustainable in the long-run. It may damage your own confidence, and eventually destroy any enthusiasm of attending dance classes at all.
👉There should be a balance between nice things your teacher says, acknowledging the progress, as well as constructive criticism to make you work on the mistakes.
‼️‼️‼️Is there any kind of discipline and set rules in the class? Or is it all loose and free? ‼️‼️‼️
👉Yes, of course, dance studio is not a military training, but it’s an environment where you work on improving your dance skills. Maintaining proper discipline in the class is also about respect towards the art, the group of students, as well as self respect of the teacher to herself.
‼️‼️‼️Listen to what teacher says about her colleagues. ‼️‼️‼️
👉If she starts criticizing or bad-mouthing other studios or teachers, it’s a red flag. Same applies if she starts limiting your freedom of attending classes somewhere else. Such teachers are very insecure regarding their own dance level, so they're trying to avoid being compared to other teachers.
👉Also, they are not interested in actually developing your dance skills. No need to comment that your dance development will be extremely limited in such an environment.
Did you have bad experiences with teachers? How long did it take you to switch to another teacher?❤️
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Song in the video: 🎶Halawet Rooh
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About Iana
Iana Komarnytska is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer, and passionate content creator helping dancers navigate their dance lives.
She is a graduate from the professional dance program at York University (Canada), host of the Belly Dance Life podcast, creator of the Iana Dance Club, author of numerous articles, and winner of Star Bellydancer Canada 2014 among other international competitions.
Along with belly dance, Iana performs and teaches Persian Classical and Turkish Romani dancing. She is the first choreographer to start using Triple Isis wings, and since 2012 this is one of her style signatures.
I see it over and over again that dancers who barely had any experience want to crowd their improvisation with hundreds of movements that at the end of the day, don’t even fit the music.