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If you are a classroom teacher or a performer,
you will feel right at home as an interactive coach. You are used
to working in the moment and to using the unexpected occurrence as
an opportunity for learning.
The coach in an interactive session is on-stage. You will feel
comfortable, for this is a natural state for performers. Your students
will share in this feeling – you are each at one and the
same time, a member of the corps and prima ballerina assoluta --- !
In the spirit of exchange, you likely will have a counterpart at the
Partner Studio (somewhere else in America or the World). Together,
you and your students in both Studios will mold the dynamics of the
learning setting.
It is important for you to be alert to all parts of the screen[s]
in front of you. Our eyes are not used to scanning a two-dimensional
surface the way we survey the natural landscape that surrounds us
in real life. Sometimes, something like this experience happens in
wide-screen movies -- we can choose to watch the bird winging away
over the forest as hobbits and friends make their way across the
plain. Do remember –-
this selective way of viewing is a choice. You have to think about
it, for the process to become natural.
We are here to help you, so call with questions.
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INTERACTIVITY IN ACTION
Click on the image of Risa Steinberg
correcting a pelvis lift over 1000 miles
(bottom row, middle image).
The streaming movie you will see
documents
how Risa* coached dancers
at 4 dance academies
in 3 American cities
— at the same time!
* Note how Risa works
with "co-coaches" in other cities
(Diane Aldis, Bonnie Mathis, David Kloss)
—
no coach does it alone — !!
TOOL
Maria Chapman,
an intuitive coach, understands how to use technology, turning what
might appear to be defects such as delay or image quality into benefits.
For a tip from a master coach,
click on Effective
Coaching Techniques above.
And for the kind of choices
that confront interactive coaches,
study the image of the resourceful Mary Harding
— below — !!!
Remember,
in the spirit of interactivity --
Don’t just view it.
DO it!!!
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