Yesterday was a miraculous day. While I was teaching my jazz class (they are 3 levels from the advanced class & mostly 8th graders), three of my students from the advanced class came in early to practice their own dances.
When it's really close to recital time, I like to have anyone that's watching give the dance a grade. It works like this: they start with 100 points. Every time the dancers make a mistake, they lose one point. I like this because it makes the dancers work harder the next time to improve their grade and it keeps the onlookers involved and observant. They are also welcome to give corrections if they'd like.
During the jazz class, I had them take turns showing their dance with the few advanced girls. The advanced girls were full of corrections. Everything that popped out of their mouth were things that they are VERY guilty of all the time. Advanced Girl #1- 'Make sure when you land out of a leap, you don't sound like an elephant.' Advanced Girl #2 (correcting her younger sister)- 'Don't let your hands turn into claws.' Advanced Girl #3- 'No floppy feet!'
What???? Are there parrots in here? I've been giving these same corrections to the advanced girls for the past five years. It's nice to know they listen. It would be even better if they applied their own corrections. Lets see what happens tonight.
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