Who should I take singles with?

Yuan Ren

Yuan Ren

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I have been looking for a partner for a while :(:(:(. Now I feel like I need to be more active and start taking singles, but I don't plan to compete in pro-am. Hopefully the coach knows some amateur girls that she can introduce me to.

Recommendations?:confused:
 
you are looking for a pre'champ lady, right (if you are who I think you are).. in that case probably singles will help out staying dance ready and will keep you around the dance circle closer so you will know when girls are available
 
cannot make a recommendation unless you give us some criteria.. from the info you gave us i could say any short or midheight pro or high level amateur lady.

also what is more important: amount of time on the floor, or level of instruction?
 
If you are not interested in pro-am, try take lessons from some very well established pro ladies who are very experienced, always busy training/traveling to compete; very high ranking experienced pros usually teach very serious am competitors, so they might have some inside info of if one of their very serious am students split or some other serious am come to them asking help for partner.
 
It's the term people use when they don't want to be confused with "doing Pro/Am," as in, someone who takes a lesson with just a coach but isn't going to be competing with them. It also has to do with someone coaching an unpartnered dancer rather than a couple: like, I'm going to take a lesson by myself with another coach, she's just teaching me, and will dance with me a bit on the lesson too. That's a "singles" lesson, as in "Yeah, she said she'd do some single's lessons too."
 
samina said:
gotcha. so... a private vs. coaching, in my-speak.:rolleyes:
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huh? but a private can be both for a couple or for a single person, so can a coaching be either couple or single?? :confused:

I've had single coaching lessons with visiting coaches (US based as well as those from the UK) while in the states. I know it's less common, but I've done this quite a few times.
 
Some teachers will not teach just one student on a private lesson because they don't want to feel like they need to be dancing with the student for most of the lesson. They will only teach couples. Other teachers will take the one student, in a so-called "singles" lesson.

I am super-excited because I have a couple of singles lessons lined up with someone whom I admire, plus a couple of "coaching" sessions where my regular Pro/Am teacher will be dancing on the lesson with me.
 
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