Aniseteph
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I agree with Shira - choreo workshops can actually give you more than just another choreo. Sometimes the background of the style is explained. Sometimes you will learn about specific movements. Sometimes you will understand the connection to the music etc.
Agreed, I don't mind if it is being used as a means to get across other points - technique, feeling, background etc. I've been to great workshops taught exactly this way, really useful and memorable and better than most pure technique ones.
It's all part of the accurate descriptions issue for me - if it is billed as learn-a-choreography and you aren't into performing other people's choreographies, why bother? If the teacher IS actually teaching a lot more, then IMO the teacher and/or organiser ought to put that into the blurb. Caroline just posted exactly what I mean: "...the product becomes the focus". It's all about where the focus is.
If I'm paying and I don't know the teacher I'm wary of making assumptions about the content/focus.
And agree with you Caroline - 3 hours in one go is too long.