Over the past couple of editions of “Mark’s Lead,” I’ve introduced a few ideas about how to experience the lessons and optimize your learning. Today, we’ll continue on that theme with an idea that will accelerate your learning and enable you to quickly advance in your dance skill. Ready for this? Here’s the secret: Learn…
In last week’s Lead, we looked at how the intention of our classes is not so much to learn the pattern perfectly from beginning to end. Rather, our intention is to convey ideas and applied skills that you can incorporate, according to the nature of the music and the skill of your partner, into your…
I will confess that I don’t personally dance all the turn patterns that I teach in social dancing. Moreover, I really don’t expect my students to learn and memorize all the turn patterns that I teach. I will go so far as to say, “Don’t learn the turn pattern!” Such heresy from a dance instructor?…
In the world of Salsa lessons (and with many other styles as well) beginner dancers are keen to take intermediate-level lessons, intermediate dancers are anxious to get into the advanced class, and advanced dancers want to learn the pro tricks. The Pros? They focus on fundamentals and the details of what one would learn in…