When I was in my class kids belly dance class yesterday, I told the kids a new belly dance teacher is going to take over their class. One of the kid answered very loudest ‘ I don’t want’. I was shocked how she react. Others asked why, where you want to go and bla….bla….bla…. honestly I was touching and also want to know why….so I continue to ask, she answered me “last time you asked me to smile when dance, now I already learned how to smile, I don’t want to go other teacher class” I have no words to say what I felt at that moment and said “I love you” not just with words, but with deeds and actions. Anyway....I am a bit hesitant to blog about this in some detail.
She had learn to smile, enjoy and learn to be comfortable with it. She had finally reached a point where she could be comfortable smiling. I recalled it took me so long to teach the kids how to smile and enjoy in dancing. I remember one of them told me she don’t know how to smile, one of them told me she feel shy to show her uneven teeth. One of the kid smiled when she wore elegant costume on the stage without me telling her to do that!. More and more and they enjoy the dance and they smile!
When we learn a new dance or a new amalgamation, It's human nature we focus on the steps and the figures. But if we want to feel good and look good, we need to go beyond technical accuracy and incorporate into our dancing with body language and communication. If without the language in dance, the dance is just steps and exercise! Dance has power to communicate, dance contains emotion, if we have something more than exercise, we have art.
I usually not too demanding if the kids don’t ‘smile perfectly’. Yesterday class we did more challenge - a big smile, a genuine smile, showing teeth and everything. I told them they can have a goofy smile, some of them just shown me their tooth that it looked a bit weird,.. Hahaha! And throughout the entire day, we all had to Smile and Dance.
She had learn to smile, enjoy and learn to be comfortable with it. She had finally reached a point where she could be comfortable smiling. I recalled it took me so long to teach the kids how to smile and enjoy in dancing. I remember one of them told me she don’t know how to smile, one of them told me she feel shy to show her uneven teeth. One of the kid smiled when she wore elegant costume on the stage without me telling her to do that!. More and more and they enjoy the dance and they smile!
When we learn a new dance or a new amalgamation, It's human nature we focus on the steps and the figures. But if we want to feel good and look good, we need to go beyond technical accuracy and incorporate into our dancing with body language and communication. If without the language in dance, the dance is just steps and exercise! Dance has power to communicate, dance contains emotion, if we have something more than exercise, we have art.
I usually not too demanding if the kids don’t ‘smile perfectly’. Yesterday class we did more challenge - a big smile, a genuine smile, showing teeth and everything. I told them they can have a goofy smile, some of them just shown me their tooth that it looked a bit weird,.. Hahaha! And throughout the entire day, we all had to Smile and Dance.
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