Thank you for your interest. However, I have decided that I don't need this teacher. I don't particularly like her style, and I don't like the way that 6 months after she said that I needed 6 months more in her beginners, she could see that I hadn't improved, despite the hours of intensive practice that I had put in and the 2 other teachers that I had been with in the meantime. I wouldn't mind redoing beginners at any time with a teacher I respect, to polish my technique, but not with one who doesn't believe in teaching much technique, as in one class you are too new to need it and in the next class, she can't waste her time teaching it.
I have 2 lovely new teachers, ome of whom thinks I am promising and will give me some privates, the other is a lovely egyptian lady, who teaches large classes routines for charity shows, but also gets us to follow her whilst she dances beautifully, and I'm quite content.
I would rather learn from a tribal teacher who's teaching skills and technique I admire, whom I feel will help me achieve in my chosen (egyptian) style, than try to get someone to work with me who doesn't respect me and would expect me just to do as she does.
I am looking forward to learning musicality and improv and all the other skills that I would not have had the chance to learn if I hadn't been rejected in the first place.
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