Recent content by Alora

I will!

Thanks everyone. Thank you also Alexandra - very insightful, funny and helpful. Like you say ‘you don’t know what you don’t’ know..and when you do know you feel very silly. I didn’t realise just how advanced dancers and teachers compensated until I started getting better The lesson went...

Thsnk you. Happily I’ve just had a message saying he wants to join me in a private lesson…one step at a time…excuse the pun

Brutal, but thank you

Hi I’ve finally found a beginner lead to dance with after 3 years and we are the right height and get on well.He is keen to get better like me and he takes loads of private lessons. He’s been dancing since January. He is very charming and gets in well with everyone at our club. I just need...

Thank you for your time and advice. I have been struggling with this for several months, blaming my following skills, It wasn’t until I started going to beginners’ leading classes did I realise what the problem was. thought if I can’t follow may be I’ll try to lean to lead as there’s more...

Thank you for your advice

I am paying for an instructor whom I have lessons with every other week. I’ve been put with this person because there are no other leads and we’ve been dancing together about 8 months. At first it was fine but as my dance partner got better at leading she started correcting my steps, my arms...

Just for clarity I’ve been learning as a follow for several years but have just started to learn to lead for 2 months

I’ve already done my bronze and bronze bar exams . My teachers are qualified to set exams and the syllabus which they are teaching the classes. What do you mean about red flags? I did my exams as a follow not as a leader. I’ve not taken 2 years to do my silver exam I started working...

Thank you very much for your advice

Thank you. I’m taking a silver medal in Viennese waltz, waltz and foxtrot. I guess there’s nothing I can do about my dance partner’s lack of dancing skills - which she would have had if she’d taken exams or gone back to basics….

Yes I can with do that which I prefer. The idea was that I’d have someone to practice the exam steps with but quite frankly I’m better prscting on my own

Hello there I’ve been learning ballroom dancing for several years but more seriously in the last 2 years and am taking my ballroom medals. I’ve been partnered by my dance school with a female dancer who leads because I’m taking my exams as a follow. She is a social dancer and, prior to...

I’ve gone back to ballroom dancing (after a very long break of several years) for now a year and a half. It was very difficult to start with and, as I’m a single dancer I rotated with other single dancers. I didn’t know the routines and really should have gone back to the beginners class, in...