To be fair, neither am I - I'm making it up as I go along
(To be even more fair, so are all teachers, I'm just a bit more transparent about the process)
But basically, each class is based on a theme - for example, "stability", "connection", or "dissociation" - and I then just develop movements which will illustrate the theme. The idea is to get students to grasp and use the technique in their dancing generally, rather than to get them "letter-perfect" on a particular sequence of movements.
So, in my giro example, people weren't always doing the sequence well in terms of footwork, but they were leading and following it improvisationally, and integrating that within their dancing. Obviously, at some point I need to get the footwork up to scratch also - probably with a "dissociation" theme - but I'm just getting the concept done first.
As I said, it's a bit of an experiment, and we'll see how it goes.
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