I think I'd listen just as much to a young teacher as I would to an older teacher.... Obviously an older teacher might have more experience in dancing/ teaching than a young one, but this is not always the case! Young teachers might have started dancing when they were barely out of their nappies, and the old teachers might bot have started dancing until they were adults.... I think I'd judge the teacher on his or her 'preformance' - how good at teaching is he/ how good a dancer/ do I like their personal stule etc etc. Age, to me, doesn't matter.
Funnily enough, when I was teaching dance classes in Norway, at the tender young age of 21, most of the people in my class thought I was about 30!!!! Maybe I was just very, ummmm, authoritative.... Or maybe they were just so dazzled by my, er, fantastic skills, knowledge and teaching abilities, that they thought I couldn't possibly be as young as I really looked!
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