I have my first official belly dance teaching gig!!!
Thanks to new friend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
csecooney , who got me hooked up with a lovely woman at the Huntley library way the heck up north, I'm doing a one-day belly dance class as part of their summer arts series thing. Hurray!
I'm also in talks with one of the local park districts since, even after a really good interview the thing at the Y doesn't seem to be working out, so hopefully I'll get something local and permanent going and the $$ I'm spending on this teacher training will not all be down the drain...not that any education is ever wasted; it always pays off eventually.
Except maybe for trig. I suspect still that the hours I spent in that classroom may have been a complete waste of time, except as really good lesson in what kind of teacher I'd never want to be and how to make fairly bright students feel like stupid lumps who can't do anything right.
I got a gig!! Thanks, Claire!
peace,
J
- Mood:
excited
Bernard Huijbers wrote a fairly fabulous book entitled "The Performing Audience," about worshipping assemblies and how the goal of musicmaking in those settings is not for the "musicians" to perform "for" the watching audience, but for all of those present to be "performing" together, for and with one another--audience as performer, performer as audience. (Gross oversimplification of a very wise book with way more content than that.)
( Click if you're curious how I will tie this to belly dance... )
- Mood: hopeful
