[Tango-L] Bad teachers produce bad dancers?

[Melina Sedo & Detlef Engel]

Hi there,

I know, this might sund funny, coming from a teacher, but I just have  
to comment on this sentence in the mail of HBBOOGIE1 at aol.com (Who's  
behind this Alias anyway?):
"... I do know that it (bad teachers) produces bad dancers that  
disrupt the floor for the rest of us...."

Actually I am not so sure about this. I've seen a lot of good dancers,  
who only took classes with the worst teachers and quite some awful  
dancers, who had access to great instruction. To me, the statistical  
relation between good instruction and becoming a good dancer does not  
seem to be very significant. Unfortunately.
I don't say, that is hurts, to take classes with good teachers, 'cause  
they can give you great ideas and infos, but you won't become a good  
dancer just by this.
You have to take into consideration talent, (good) taste, (common)  
sense, sensibility, experience (with other dances or sports), age,  
pysical fitness, (good) dance partners, (good) perception, (high)  
level of Tango-community, reason and of course (the right)  
practice. ... So please, don't blame it all on the teachers!
If you are intelligent enough and think about what you're doing, you  
might even learn from real bad teachers. I did! ;-)

Happy New Year,

Melina


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