instructor.

in case you dunno me, I'm a thinker. Much to my zodiac, palmistry and blood type. haha.

So, for the past good years of being an instructor.
What makes a dance instructor?

I think a dance instructor is very 'powerful'. We have the power to make people dance. Move to the music. And have fun.
I feel that sometimes, others are taking this for granted.

We have moved away from,
"hi people, lets warm up."
"lets drill techniques"
"here's today choreo"
"good bye, c you next week."
Hopefully.

To a caring and understanding instructor, knowing the needs of our students. Trying to help them enjoy dance at the end of the day. They happy, we happy.

Although sometimes I find myself, like yesterday, being a poor instructor. I can't help my students to achieve a good national standard. Sigh.

Guess I seriously need to work harder. Not only for myself, but for the sake of the next generation of dancers.
I've already pondered, its not that we are lousy, just that our previous generation had been all grown up (*funk stylers), family, work or even a retired grandpa. Hence, no knowledge had been passed down. They stopped dancing.

But other countries have their previous generation that never stopped dancing since the 80s, and had been dancing for decades, thus passing valuable information to the new bloods. For this, we cannot stop dancing.

We should help to create Singapore dancers of tomorrow.

keep on dancing.

*funk stylers - dancers into funk styles, bboy, soul, lock, pop, wack, etc.