[kalonis]

In my experience this is not only true for memorizing theoretical knowledge but for physical skills too. For example, if you learn the piano simply playing pieces you know won't make you a better piano player. To get better practicing really has to be difficult. This can be achieved either by learning new pieces or by making the pieces you know more difficult to play (e.g. play them faster, try to play them in a different style etc.)

[sigsergv]

The same for dancing. And actually the situation with (casual) dance lessons is much much worse.

For musical arts we have vast instructions on fingering/stopping. But we have almost nothing for dancing. Dance teacher often can't explain in words what he/she expecting from the student and how exactly specific move must be performed. As a result 90% of casual dance students leave the field because of that faulty teaching process.

[ooobit2]

It's not a faulty teaching process. I'm white, and I can dance. Dance, at its super basic foundation, is about physical awareness. The same way you teach someone how to use a piece of gym equipment, hold a yoga pose, or even ride a bike.

What I think is difficult to describe in dance is how to communicate emotion through your body, not just your face. For me, the hardest thing to overcome there is this fear that someone will make fun of me for taking it too seriously. I don't know why I have this fear about becoming so immersed in something that other people think I'm cringeworthy. If it wasn't an issue, I'd pull every muscle in my body just to nail a routine to Celine's "My Heart Will Go On".

Maybe the fear of humiliation is the culprit winning out more often than most people will admit?

I now need to think about this. Like, that's a damn good song to me. And given that it's my life, my time given to a performance of it, why in the world am I concerned about a few assholes who think they're cooler than me in that moment?

[sigsergv]

I intentionally didn't mention talent. It's quite clear that some people can learn dance at much higher rate than others. And those others need to spend much more time to achieve “basic” results. But that's not needs to be always true and it was proven in my country by a group of systems engineers, ballet dancers and teachers, they developed a special teaching model that reduce education time greatly. They sorted out “emotions” and other esoteric things and work with remaining physiology things. And results are impressive so it's really everything about teaching process.

Unfortunately offline course and all materials in russian only.

[monster_group]

>> I'm white, and I can dance.

Confused by this statement. What has your ethnicity got to do with dancing?

[wincy]

At least in the US it’s a joke/stereotype that the white man can’t dance.