Amanda (was Aziyade)
Well-known member
Spin of from the Zack thread. I'm paraphrasing:
Charity wrote:
but no we havent learned anything about the dance history, just learning choreography for a performance. we just have fun with it, i really enjoy the class. just last nite we did so much practice on each individual move i was hurting by the time i got home.
in the beginning she basically laid it out for us though. she said- and i accept- that hey what we like we take from here and there. thats why its called ethno fusion.
and
right now i know i will never perform, if i did i would definitely take the history and culture more seriously.
my teacher does allow room for questions and answers. she is very good about that. but again, she accomodates to us and what we want out of the class, she even had us fill out a questionnaire and she goes off of that as to what will be incorporated into the class.
And A'isha posed the question:
If you were learning, say, ballet, or math, or pottery, or any other thing, would you expect the instructor to tailor the class to your desires or to teach you what is important and what you need to know as a person who wants to learn the subject?
and Taheya said:
i can see what you mean about this style of teaching may be 'meeting the demands of the students' at the same time it is superficial and you really are not getting the whole story, so your teacher is doing you a disservice.
and Shanazel said:
I have some sympathy for the view held by Charity's teacher, which apparently includes the truth of supply and demand. She is supplying a service, to put it in the most unromantic terms, and the women paying for this service would not pay for it if she offered something they didn't want, that is to say a serious cultural experience in belly dance.
So now we're up to speed here.
Charity wrote:
but no we havent learned anything about the dance history, just learning choreography for a performance. we just have fun with it, i really enjoy the class. just last nite we did so much practice on each individual move i was hurting by the time i got home.
in the beginning she basically laid it out for us though. she said- and i accept- that hey what we like we take from here and there. thats why its called ethno fusion.
and
right now i know i will never perform, if i did i would definitely take the history and culture more seriously.
my teacher does allow room for questions and answers. she is very good about that. but again, she accomodates to us and what we want out of the class, she even had us fill out a questionnaire and she goes off of that as to what will be incorporated into the class.
And A'isha posed the question:
If you were learning, say, ballet, or math, or pottery, or any other thing, would you expect the instructor to tailor the class to your desires or to teach you what is important and what you need to know as a person who wants to learn the subject?
and Taheya said:
i can see what you mean about this style of teaching may be 'meeting the demands of the students' at the same time it is superficial and you really are not getting the whole story, so your teacher is doing you a disservice.
and Shanazel said:
I have some sympathy for the view held by Charity's teacher, which apparently includes the truth of supply and demand. She is supplying a service, to put it in the most unromantic terms, and the women paying for this service would not pay for it if she offered something they didn't want, that is to say a serious cultural experience in belly dance.
So now we're up to speed here.
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