I have been dancing 18 months. After the end of term when X and I parted ways, I found another wonderful teacher just starting out. Her style is Tribal, but she can dance Raqs and was beginning to teach us Asseya when she decided to stop until after she had her baby. She also worked hard on our technique. At Christmas she saw me dance at a nightclub we all went to. (I was dancing on dance floor, not soloing) and she has agreed to give me private lessons as a way of getting ready for her to teach again.
In the meantime to keep our hand (hip) in, we startted to travel to the next town to classes with an egyptian lady who used to be in a dance troupe before she met her husband and moved here. Her main focus is teaching routines for a big charity show in September. However, she also does some "follow the bouncing but" teaching when she wants to pep us up, and the latest routine is challenging BD with new moves to practise. Her classes are huge fun, when we first arrived (and all the way through) whenever they do a dance from the back catalogue we were encouraged to join in and pick it up on the fly. the first teacher had left me with a complex that I couldn't learn choreo and I was considering hypnosis. I am now about average in memorising routines and am also really enjoying myself in a really friendly class. Plus Amira dances the way I want to dance. On the minus side, I can cope with the routines not being broken down much. I am learning so much about how to learn. however, I will do the 2 classes side by side once Shelley has had the baby as I need attention to technique that I don't get from Amira.
I am very happy as I think I will get the best of both worlds with this arrangement.
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