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Date Posted: 13:06:55 12/17/25 Wed
Author: More inside.
Subject: Yes. Every dance teacher I have ever know could, its parts of being a teacher.
In reply to: Forgive me but if anything is absurd it’s this conversation. 's message, "So do you genuinely think that say in a class of 50-60 dancers you could confidently recall each dancers individual steps, corrections and next steps?" on 12:29:13 12/17/25 Wed

Well if you are the one making up the choreography and teaching it, then absolutely yes you do remember it. In fact, in most schools I have ever been to or through speaking to multiple teachers , most would actually get up and dance the step with the student, if they had forgotten it in order to remind them of it. Unfortunately, your experience of inept teachers being lazy and not remembering is not a universal experience.

Invoking numbers to excuse forgetfulness is a deflection. If a teacher cannot recall what was taught or repeatedly corrected, the issue is not class size, it is inadequate preparation or poor teaching systems.

And the contradiction remains: dancers are expected to remember extensive choreography and corrections, yet teachers, who were once dancers, are excused from doing so. Professional responsibility increases with the role. Memory does not disappear when one becomes a teacher.

You clearly love the idea of having unqualified teachers in dancing. Would you love it if it was the same at your childs school? I doubt it, so why defend it in dance schools? Maybe you are unqualified yourself or attend a school without a qualified teacher, hence your defensiveness,

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