One of my students saw the Farida Adventures website (my fault, of course, for signposting it to my students) and she wondered if I'd organised a student holiday to Cairo. Of course not, but at the end of class I mentioned it, and some of them seem keen ( Read more... )

It's the week before the start of term and it turns out I have two classes to teach, for the first time in four (I think) years ( Read more... )

Oh we had such fun today ( Read more... )

I am feeling a bit ragged at the moment. Before half term, I was committing more evening time to my students than is good for me, because of performing, and I haven't quite recovered. I just deleted all the whiney "Wah I have too much work" stuff, because you don't need that... But I do ( Read more... )

I last had a lesson observation (by my then boss, whose job I now have) about 4 or 5 years ago. I got a glowing Grade 1 back then, and she asked me to become a mentor tutor, which is what led ultimately to me having the job now ( Read more... )

Back when I wasn't in charge of planning the dance curriculum, my curriculum manager (who was super-supportive) tried in vain to get a Beginners' class running. I swear, we must have tried it for about three years. And we never got more than three enrolling at any one time ( Read more... )

I used Ana Fintizarak for the first time ever yesterday in class. I don't know how I've come to overlook this classic for all these years ( Read more... )

My classes have been getting progressively smaller over the years. Gosh, I can remember the days a long time ago, when I had over 30 enrolled in a beginners class- it was a big studio, and I was pretty sure not every single person would come to every single class, so I let it pass. But now, I'm happy if I'm getting my 6 student minimum ( Read more... )

I'm so proud of how well my group is doing with Ahwak. I told them today that they could perform it without me. They all denied it, but it is true. I'll dance it with them, of course, because I like to dance with them, and I like dancing Ahwak. But if I was taken ill or something prevented me being there, they could totally do it without me ( Read more... )

We did the last bit of the choreography to Ahwak tonight. It is *well* cheesey, but I think in a lovely way ( Read more... )