LESSONS
How to get the most out of Your Dance Lessons at Let's Dance Club
WE CONGRATULATE each client on having the vision and the power of self-direction
to enroll in their course of dance instruction. They are setting out on a bold,
worthy and fascinating program of fun and social ease.
At the termination of this training, they will probably be astonished at how
much they have gained from it. They will have progressed far more than they dreamed
possible. For the rest of their life, they are very likely to look back on this
course as one of the turning points in their life.
These statements may sound like wild exaggerations, but they are not. They are
the truth.
Helpful Hints to our New Clients
Your attitude is all important. You may have enrolled in this course only because
someone has insisted that you learn. No matter what your reason, you will get
a great deal more out of your lessons if you start with this attitude:
"I am giving not just my time and my money; I am going to give
you my enthusiastic cooperation; I believe in this instruction
and I am going after it like a challenger for a title."
If that is your attitude, we can help you help yourself to an extent that may
almost take your breath away.
No technical knowledge of music is necessary to become a good dancer. It is perfectly
natural to have some difficulty distinguishing between different types of music
and recognizing the beat at first. As your lessons progress, this trouble disappears.
On the very first lesson you will learn the basic steps on which all dance patterns
are based.
It is important to keep your lessons as close together as possible, coming in
two or three times a week. This way you do not forget between lessons and you
learn faster.
During the first few lessons, you are taught by a Foundation Teacher (“Dance
Specialist”) whose job it is to teach you as fast as you can learn to determine
the least amount of lessions necessary to make you as good of a dancer as you
decide you want to be.
Within a very few lessons, you will be ready to attend studio parties where you
will dance with teachers and with other students like yourself. This serves as
a bridge between lessons and going out “on your own”.
If you do any dancing away from the studio during the lessons of “basic training,” do
not be alarmed if you have some initial trouble. We all must get used to something
new. Discuss any problems with your Foundation Teacher.
Many students tell us "I'd rather not dance with a good partner until I'm better." A
moment's reflection will show you this borders on "the blind leading the blind." Find
as good a dancer as you can and be assured your partner will appreciate the fact
that you are doing the correct steps to whatever music the orchestra plays. Then
as you develop into a fine, smooth dancer, other good dancers will seek you out.
ONCE YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED the basic patterns in all the popular dances, it's
all clear sailing ahead if you keep in mind the normal pattern of learning.
So Relax! Realize that if you give us your complete cooperation, together we
shall produce results that may seem like magic. In a matter of months you will
make more progress in dancing and social preparedness than you have made in years
of haphazard searching. Just be patient now and let the magic happen inside you.
Do not expect steady, uniform improvement. It does not come steadily- it comes
in spurts. Perhaps you will improve for five to ten lessons then you will hit
a plateau, where you see no improvement for a lesson or two; you may even appear
to slip back a few hours. Don't let that disturb you. Soon you will again show
great improvement. Then you may hit another plateau, another slump, more progress
and so it will go. Please understand that, in learning an art, a game, or a skill,
like dancing, this uneven progress is normal and natural!
You are now on the road to becoming an exceptional dancer and a popular member
of any crowd at a studio which has a time-proven system.
Congratulations and good luck!
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