antares
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No secret, just long, thoughtful, careful hours of practice. A few of my hardest tasks as a teacher: 1)convincing my students to SLOW DOWN and
2) convincing them to be precise in practicing new movements, and 3) convincing them they will not commit a movement to body memory by practicing it half a dozen times or so.
HOWEVER... you can try adding sour cream if you think that will help.
I have noticed that a lot of students have problems with dancing slowly (when music calls for it) Last week i began attending a three year long bellydance teacher's course/bellydance perfectioning course (in order to be able to make a beautiful performance as professional bellydancer and/or teach bellydance) Sorry for my English but i hope you understand what kind of course i mean. Students are suppossed to have a solid base, thus.
On the first day, our teacher had us make all kind of isolations, movements, etc. She wanted of course to evaluate our skill degree since we came from all different schools and see where we had difficulties so that she could correct them. The fact is that she had to correct a lot of students from dancing "snaky" movements WAY too fast. Some of them she had to correct almost constantly. I'm happy to say she did not have to correct me in fact, i loooove slow sultry movements and one of my dreams is to dance a very beautiful taxim PROPERLY.
Everybody is, of course, free of having her own opinion. But i hate it seen hyperkinetic bellydancers, since it looks so ugly and hectic. Of course, there are exceptions, when music is very fast, etc. And also when you dance a very dynamic drum solo. But not too fast please ....... Let your public (and yourself) have a break from time to time. There is nothing like changing the pace of your performance from time to time (when it fits in the music, of course)
Anyway, i really understand that having to correct your students so often is a bit annoying for you as teachers.