pennsicdance: Planning Dance at Pennsic

[Julia E Smith]

> 
> > > when the overall dancemaster might think he can handle it without
> > > their help.
> >
> > But one of the things we're discussing is how to make the teaching go
> > faster so we can dance more.  And having one single instructor for
> > several sets is (assuming equal competence among instructors) never
> > faster than individual set teaching.
> 
However, you just said it: "assuming equal competence".  With randomly
formed sets, what are the chances that in-set teachers will be equally
competent?  For small groups, teaching in set often works.  For large
groups, teaching in set is rarely faster.  There's always at least one
set that has problems, or that has a teacher who doesn't know the set as
well as they think, or....When in-set teaching works, it works really
well.  But when it doesn't work, it creates major bog-downs.  And more
often than not, in the barn, at least one set doesn't work.

Assistant teachers who are "assistants" to a main teacher, on the other
hand, can help by making sure that (as Greg said) any problems get
solved and get solved quickly.  Of course, that still puts a major vocal
strain on the main dance teacher.  Maybe a tent will have better
acoustics.

Juliana

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