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MilienElayne – Workshop with me??
I’m not an instructor at a pole school, but I have started to teach private lessons freelance. I did want to be an instructor where I’ve taken classes for two years, but I don’t think it likely that they will invite me and I don’t think it will suit me. I don’t want to get into ‘why’ right now.
I’ve noticed that I have a wider variety of tricks than some of the instructors – they ask me to demo sometimes and I’ve shared a lot with them in classes that I pay for (which I don’t think fair). So, it’s been suggested to me by friends that I should teach a tricks workshop at my current school for the instructors initially and then maybe other advanced students. So… before I approach the school with this idea, I want to have a workshop prepared.
If you were to take a workshop from me, what would you like to see in it? Keep in mind that I can learn new stuff pretty quickly and I know a lot more than makes it into my vids https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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hm, i’m not too caught up on your vids (sorry!!! i’ve been trying to keep up but it’s tough) so i’m not too sure of what combos you’re doing or what tricks you have in your arsenal that i would want to learn, but i’m sure that at this point you’ve got a pretty good sense of what you’ve been taught versus what you’ve figured out, put together on your own, or learnt from outside the studio. if you’re putting together a workshop and some of your clients are going to be the women who taught you– then i would think the curriculum should be mostly comprised of stuff that you’ve developed that they don’t already do. no? for example– i’m a big fan of the jenyne drop, whether it be into a floor split or a shoulder dismount the way that veena does… and while i was fortunate enough to learn it direct from jenyne, everyone else that i pole with is verrrry itnerested in that move. or, i do a drop from a aerial split grip to an outside leg hang to a bomb that i frequently get asked to break down. stuff like that?
another tactic to develop your workshop would be to put together strings of moves in combination… for example, a combo that i’ve been teaching in my int/adv classes is: dipspin/halfspin into pirouette, bring the inside leg right into a front hook as you compelte the pirouette, drop the inside foot to pivot into another halfspin right into a backhook right into a chopper, butterfly, adv butterfly. none of the moves are hard on their own, but it’s a combination i haven’t seen teachers around me teach… to do the moves in sequence without any superfluous steps and keep the combo very clean, becomes much more difficult. so it doesn’t have to be brain crushingly hard stuff, it can just be transitions from one move to another that htey haven’t thought of before…
and finally- think about what makes you unique as a dancer in general…. is it your floorwork, your fluidity, your pointed toes? incorporate that into your workshop, teach what makes you great!
sounds like an exciting possibility, keep us posted!!!
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handspring stuff… cartwheel mounts
anything the intermediate- advanced students dont get from the regular instructors.maybe you could "assistant teach"?
that way you dont have to pay for your classes. you’d help out the current instructors too…
and then of course do your kickass workshops like once a monthyou are awesome
i wish i could take a workshop from ya! -
Thanks ladies! Still up in the air about this one. So much pole-itics where I am right now. Laying low til I know what’s going on!
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