Womens Teaching Shoes
Verdy, wearing a Chautauqua Dance 1993 T-shirt over a blue unitard and red-heeled
womens teaching shoes, was easily the most energetic person there. She walked quickly around the room, snapping her fingers and eyeing each dancer in turn, approaching several swiftly to correct a position during the exercise. She conveys, without ever saying it in so many words, a belief that ballet, and ballet study, is a distinction - singular, charmed, and exhilarating. In conversation later, she confided that she loves teaching students this age because they are so "singleminded" about dancing, not yet distracted by anxiety, not yet exhausted by the physical demands of full-time performing. Her teaching persona seems never to have known anxiety or exhaustion either - her classroom style builds on the serene intensity of youthful devotion.
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| After class the students freely came up to their teacher to ask her questions. In this and many other ways, the class well exemplified director Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux's teaching philosophy, as he expressed it in a separate interview. He believes that fifteen minutes after each class should be formally set aside for students to ask questions. And he is adamant that teachers be kind and encouraging: "I like to respect people and enjoy them - enjoy their progress and feel responsible for their well-being. I think it gets good results when people are treated that way." Bonnefoux particularly admires teachers who are musical and energetic. But, he says, "You need to try different teachers and to use your own judgment with them." |
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