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I was terrible at social dance for years bc I thought it was about *making the right moves.* But it's really about making *any movement* as long as it's in response to the music & ur partnerMost dance teachers do students a disservice by focusing on moves instead of groove https://t.co/m1coLvpKL6
Lotta fellow nerds suck at charisma because they think it's about *saying the right things.* It isn't. It's about rapport. It's about being a good reply-guy IRL. Your words can be nonsense as long as you're participating in a back-and-forth patter https://t.co/PgTnTEkNt4
@TylerAlterman Few days ago I was at a zouk lesson where the teacher didn’t cover any steps, only side to side and body rolls, and we played with how to inject those with personality, different energy, attuning to the partner. Best dance lesson I’ve had
@TylerAlterman Wooten says the same thing about music and “making the right sounds”! make any sound, as long as it’s in response to the context the dance teacher problem is also the music teacher problem is also the problem with all teaching that doesn’t prioritize sensitivity and feeling https://t.co/40MhRchES5
@TylerAlterman completely tangentially, research on baby language acquisition shows that the size of your vocabulary or number of distinct words spoken to the baby matters way less than just how many conversational turns you take back and forth