Tips for Teachers: Article
Joy in Motion’s focus on dance instructors continues. An article with tips on teaching has been added to the list of articles you can find in the Resources section (or see below for the link). And if you haven’t checked out Seven Habits of Highly Effective Dance Instructors, be sure to visit the Articles section. Every month we are delving deeper into these seven habits. Habits 1 and 2 have been posted so far, and more are to come so be sure to check the site often. And, as always, I welcome your feedback. Enjoy!
Words of Wisdom for Instructors
“Consciously, we teach what we know; unconsciously, we teach who we are.”
- Alice Hamachek
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“Finally, the most important immediate outcome . . . To help dancers learn in as many ways as possible, and to make teachers fluent in as many teaching languages as possible, including those visible and invisible ways of communicating things like care, concern, humor, warmth and love for the art, not only for the art of dance but the art of teaching, and the desire to pass these things on to other people by teaching them to dance, or at least for an hour, giving them wings to fly.”
- Joan Walton
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“To educe means to draw out or evoke that which is latent: education then means drawing out the person’s latent capacities for understanding and living, not stuffing a (passive) person full of preconceived knowledge.”
- Stephen Nachmanovich
So You Think You Can Dance, Week 2: Karin’s Favorite Performance
Season 5 of So You Think You Can Dance officially kicked off last week. Here is my favorite performance from week two, a contemporary piece performed by Jonathan Platero and Karla Garcia. The waltz performed by Vitolio Jeune and Asuka Kondoh was also beautiful. The show airs Wednesday evenings on Fox, with the results show on Thursday evenings. Enjoy!
