mahsati_janan
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That's something altogether different, that's sharing information. I wish my first teacher would have done that, I thought for a long time she was the only teacher in Amsterdam and when I left I found out the city had at least 7 teachers (probably more, but there was no internet so we didn't know) It makes such a difference to be able to take classes form multiple teachers.
I consider it different, but was responding to the perception as these kinds of things are specifically mentioned in the original post as name-dropping.
tell me (unsolicited) during class the names of teachers or dancers they’ve met. “I learnt this step from x”, or “y had the same teacher as me”, or “when I met z - you do know who z is don’t you?” I don’t want to know who taught them what during class; I want to know what they can teach me during class.
I can easily see me saying all of these things in a single class, so I wanted to give an alternate reason why a teacher may say those things. I can see where it might sound like name-dropping to some folks, but it is really just another teaching tool for me. I'll give an example below of something I might actually say in a class -
"This is a Saiidi style rocking step. I first learned it from TeacherA who had a background in dance styles x,y,and z, so when she executed it, it changed from what we would consider the base move by being stylized in that way. TeacherB drives this move from her glutes. We had the same teacher originally, but her stylization has changed because she is very into a specific training method and has focused on a different muscular impetus. Finally, when I first met Mahmoud Reda (I've told you who he is before, right? Firqat Reda, one of the big folkloric troupes in Egypt?) he demonstrated the move like *this* and also said that these variations were common. Look up these dancers on youtube or on my youtube playlists to see if you can recognize the differences in style and execution."