I like to teach a beginners’ session before dances and sometimes have
experienced dancers join in to help out. Generally that works out pretty
well, but sometimes the experienced dancers want to give their partners
advice and demonstrations beyond what I’m teaching. It’s disruptive and I
think
I acknowledge that there are many ways to teach and value the tradition
of contra dancing.
I'm pushing the edges a touch here, but felt, given the recent
discussion re large % of beginners
and how do you pull in and keep younger dancers, that these two data
points may be helpful.
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