Tip to dancers...

[love2dance]

• Respect the teacher or leader, even if you are more skilled. A humble, submissive attitude will get you a lot further then promotional expectations.

• Show lovingkindness to those team/family members who are, at times, not kind. They may have had a really hard day or life. Your simple act of kindness may crack their shell of insolence and, bring forth the deliverance they need.

• If you are an advanced dancer, do not skip practices once you feel like YOU know the dance. Your leader needs you especially, to see how it all fits together. If you miss (and there were changes), then the leader has to spend extra time with you.
  Leaders, it may be good to set guidelines for required practice times.
  As the leader, show organizational effort by posting schedules for rehearsals, and clean up, etc.

• Never question or doubt what your leader says (especially) in front of the other team members. If your question is not answered by the end of practice, then quietly approach your leader on the side and pose the question or suggestion. Do not be offended if your suggestions are not always accepted.

• Use self-control to avoid gossip at all costs!
  Have you ever noticed a small child who has boundless energy, and has had to sit quietly in a setting where it is inappropriate to wiggle? Finally, when they can’t take it any more, the wiggling commences. It then becomes a struggle between the parent who tries to exact self-control in the child, and the child who feels like they must continue wiggling. As Christian adults, we have the ability to control our own emotions, desires, actions, and wiggling tongue. Of course, we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. For instance, we certainly do not have to gossip. Often, it is cloaked under the guise of prayer: We really need to pray for sister Sally, did you hear what she did? After all the gory details have been shared (in strictest confidence, of course) the prayer begins. The gory details are important, you know, so the prayers can be specific. The problem is, that once the concern gets out, people tend to look askance at that individual, until they feel alienated and rejected. If this happens to enough people, in sets bitter judgement and finally division. It is nothing but a downward spiral for families, teams within churches and the church structure itself. We as the body of Christ need to exhort, edify, and encourage one another, not tear down. We need to become a unified front against the enemy of our souls (not people). This unity can begin with the exercise of self-control. We can control the waggle of a tongue that wants to wiggle!

• In order for us to have terrific teams, that exemplify the fruit of the Spirit, we must, not only adhere to good tips from experienced individuals, but also, die to our flesh, build up our spirit man and develop Christ-like-fruit-remaining character. When this process is successful, our arts presentations and worship expressions will then produce exemplary fruit of their own. They will leave a lasting impression of love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control. As congregational onlookers are ultimately touched and changed, because of our growth, they, in turn, will affect another’s life, and so on...

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[symphonyb]

ahh you get my reps

 

[jul7246]

love2dance, this is the most basic..and the most significant thing that needs to be mentioned! =)
May the Lord richly bless you!
Jul

 

[Ainuhina]

tip for you...

when you add your tips do it in a new post so that this thread is still visible after a month (if nobody posts in here it will become invisible after a month and then nobody would read your very good tips anymore )

be blessed

 

[love2dance]

tip for you...

when you add your tips do it in a new post so that this thread is still visible after a month (if nobody posts in here it will become invisible after a month and then nobody would read your very good tips anymore )

be blessed

Thanx for the tip!!!

 

[Multi-Elis]

Yes, it is basic tips, especially 1-4. I was once working under a choreographer, and was having the hardest time because everything I had to propose was bad. (I couldn't walk right: too theatrical, too fast, too strange, hands move too much, etc.) But it was a good exercise in humility and trust. I know the choreographer felt it, even if he was a bit fustrated.
Another girl on the team was dissillusioned with how slow the rehersals were going (we could have done twice as much in a given time) and she was dillusioned with how we were filming ourselves on video before we had enough time to reherse. She told the choreographer this, in no uncertain terms. The choreographer went on vacation and for a whole month was hunted by what he felt was miss-trust on her part! So he decided he couldn't work with her.
Observing him, I noticed how important it was to give him time to think out what needed to be thought out. When ever I dissagreed with him on something, I just had to be quiet and do as asked, sooner or later he saw his mistake, and did better with out needing a word from me. I was always satisfied in the end.
At one point though, we needed to break his trust: On the pre-show night, the chorreographer wanted us girls to wear these flowery green dresses that if you spun, you could see our underwear (even worse--usually thongs because we were dancers). So we got together and were very firm in our decision. Nobody wanted to be alone in this. So the choreographer, for whom a beautiful girl ment a girl in a beautiful dress and long flowing hair, was made to see that the girls felt differently. So he agreed that we wear something more modern

I have a tip for you--if you are in a dance group, designate one person to be head producer: that is, the person who has to worry about calling everybody, organizing rehersals, contact with the pastors or secretaries if you reherse at churches, maneges the details. It is best if this person isn't the choreographer. Trust me, it can get so difficult to organize rehersals when you know that your artistic success is based on how diciplined you are in calling everyone. If somebodyelse takes care of it, it's a load off your sholders.

This is advice I haven't been able to follow yet in my projects because I haven't found anybody who enjoys managing and organizing. So so far, most of my projects have fallen in the dump. I wouldn't mind being the manager-producer, but haven't found anybody willing to do a choreography in which I do this function. This is one of my personal pains.

 

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• Respect the teacher or leader, even if you are more skilled. A humble, submissive attitude will get you a lot further then promotional expectations.

• Never question or doubt what your leader says (especially) in front of the other team members. If your question is not answered by the end of practice, then quietly approach your leader on the side and pose the question or suggestion. Do not be offended if your suggestions are not always accepted.

Amen and amen! As an Asst. Leader on a dance/drama team, when that happens, what a blessing it is!
Great suggestions.


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