Does your teacher make you dance your routines by yourself?

[Joe]

Note to self: don't go anywhere near Loki when he's practicing.

Maybe his real name is Jeff Gillooly.

 

[Loki]

Maybe his real name is Jeff Gillooly.

Damn. The jig is up.

Regards,

JG

 

[Joe janolo]

You still have to practice alone

We got the terms "lead" and "follow" but the truth is it's really 50/50

Terms are just terms

You have to bring your 100% on the table to make your 50% contribution

And the way to make sure you bring your 100% in is by practicing alone as well

Maybe use a ratio of hours like :

For every 1 hour of dancing with partner, you should spend 1.5 hours practicing alone

So it's 1:1.5

I guess that makes sense

Because you'll learn your traffic control and if you can keep frame with the air, which will train you to get used to staying in frame alone, you won't be pulling your partner down or pushing your partner away

Does that make sense?

I practice my footwork alone, a lot, hours
My frame too
Like I'm dancing with an imaginary partner
But that's what gets my body used to it
And that's how serious I am

Plus if you're serious about doing it really well with your partner, you have to listen

For example, I listen to my teacher and I absorb
And whatever she says, I apply
Because I'm the lead and she's the follow
And she tells me how to lead her well
And since I'm serious about everything
I make sure I do it right


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[Dancing Irishman]

Yes, including solo rounds during a lesson when I'm working one-on-one with my coach during the week. As a competitive am/am couple, it's expected that both of us can dance our entire part full-out solo (by both our coach and visiting coaches he brings in, including one guest coach who will eviscerate ladies who don't know their timing, footwork, or facings without help from their guys).

 

[s2k]

I don't practice solo /insert excuse about not having the time but the understanding that I really have to somehow.

My partner practices solo way more than I do /insert explanation about how his career allows him to be more flexible with his time than mine does.

I can dance my routines solo, and my partner frequently makes me. And he's right to do so - I have to be able to find my own balance and use my standing leg and the floor and not him.

Now, can I do my routines solo to tempo? /insert sound of hysterical, crying-so-hard laughing

 

[RiseNFall]

Now, can I do my routines solo to tempo? /insert sound of hysterical, crying-so-hard laughing

Yeah....I have nice hard wood floors and practice a lot at home and don't always turn on appropriate music...

i including one guest coach who will eviscerate ladies who don't know their timing, footwork, or facings without help from their guys).

See above. I have a nice long space in my house, but it's narrow, thus alignments go out the window. If I loose track of how something is really supposed to be executed, I am laughably bewildered dancing it on a real floor with a partner. The music part I can fix, better practice space at home I cannot.