[Tango-L] Call to Tango...

[Caroline Polack]

Caroline,

"Everything you write, I support. Of course, it is so much better, when a
teacher stops at you, shows you what to do, tries it with your partner to
feel what is wrong with him. Of course, it all works great!

But I also know that any time you ask a teacher about a personal advice at
the lesson - you take away something from other students, as well as his own
thoughts.

I think it is much more appropriate to ask personal questions after the
lesson."

I would love to be able to ask questions after class if it weren't for the 
fact that there's another class immediately afterwards and the teachers 
consider themselves off the clock once the class is finished.


"When a teacher is practicing a lot of with his students at a lesson, and
that happens all the time, especially if a group is very small, is actually
not a group lesson. It is a semi-private lesson. This is a much better
lesson, but when poor students pay the same $10 bucks as for a group
lesson - there is something extremely unfair in it !"

Yeah, what's funny though is that the class in which my teachers are more 
hands on with the students, there are actually far more students attending. 
They somehow managed to effectively transmute their love for tango as well 
as pay personal attention to whomever might have a question as well as teach 
a step that everyone is able to learn.  I don't know how they do it but they 
do - and it's so obvious how beloved they are among their students. Maybe 
the most influential aspect of their teaching is how much they want to share 
their love and joy of tango and how much they want their students to 
experience it as well. There's no snobbiness or aloof attitudes. It's pretty 
nice. Second thing is that because they have open classes, there's a high 
mix of levels in the same class so even if I don't dance with the teachers, 
I do get to dance with advanced students so either way, it's still a big 
bonus.

Caroline

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