Private Instruction
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Private lessons are a wonderful, important, and effective way to hone your dancing skills. I offer private and semi-private lessons either in a studio space, your home or mine.
Private lessons are excellent (and best suited) for:
- Fine-tuning your technique;
- Getting feedback on a choreography you are working on;
- Getting help with a specific movement or set of movements that you are struggling with;
- Correcting stubborn bad habits;
- Corrections and suggestions specific to you, your level, your body, your personality;
- Developing higher-level skills and arts such as expression, musical interpretation, advanced layering, transitions in/between songs, unusual prop work/moves.
Private lessons are best suited for students who have achieved at least an advanced beginner level. This is to ensure a degree of proficiency with isolations, strength, visual and kinesthetic skills, and general understanding of the dance. They can be cost-prohibitive if you are an absolute beginner.
Private lessons work best when you know exactly what you want to work on, as specifically as possible, and you give the instructor notice of this before the lesson takes place.
They can be an excellent way to "catch up" if you have missed many classes in a session.
Expect that you will have the my full attention. No phone calls, faxes, visitors, multitasking and so on. Remember, the time I spend talking to you about dancing and what you came to learn counts as instruction. I suggest a 2-hour booking to be the most effective.
Prior experience is highly recommended for private lessons.
Please contact me for more information and booking availability. In general, I prefer to teach in your home or in the studio. Students are responsible for paying any studio fees incurred.
Private rate is $35 per hour plus studio rental. Semi-private is $45 per hour plus rental.
"I stand in awe of my body"
~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)