| Sometimes learning to dance for the first time or | | | | However, most videos that teach you to learn to |
| learning to dance in a new style can be a bit scary. | | | | dance have considered all of the angles and questions |
| While having a teacher provides you with one-on-one | | | | that students might have, so they often include extra |
| instruction at specific times, it also means that the | | | | words of instruction (what they have anticipated |
| teacher is usually working with many students all at | | | | students might ask). |
| once. The actual instruction is not given in such a way | | | | What Types Of Videos Should I Look For? |
| that you personally can gain from it, but rather an | | | | If you use any search engine or shopping network like |
| entire class is absorbing the information at the same | | | | Amazon.com, you'll soon discover that there are quite |
| time. While I highly recommend that you do visit an | | | | a few options for learning to dance at home. If you're |
| instructor to critique and monitor your progress at | | | | the type of person who doesn't like change and |
| some point, often the best way to begin to learn to | | | | prefers to have one program or one instructor, there |
| dance is at home. How, you ask? With the | | | | are many different programs that offer you multiple |
| advancement of modern technology you can learn to | | | | classes from the same teacher. These videos build off |
| dance basically any style of dance in your own living | | | | of the previous videos or teach you specific parts of |
| room. | | | | the style of dance at one time. Again, this is ideal for |
| Why Might This Be Better For Me? | | | | the type of person who enjoys natural progression. |
| The people who will benefit most from this type of | | | | Another option that is available to you is to buy multiple |
| dance instruction will share some common | | | | videos from different instructors or groups. By doing |
| characteristics. More than anything, this type of | | | | this, you will have a lot of natural variety to choose |
| instruction benefits people who are nervous or | | | | from as well as multiple viewpoints of instruction. I have |
| apprehensive about taking a class. This includes people | | | | found this option to work better for me when I learned |
| with any kind of social anxiety or simply extreme | | | | to hula dance because the variety kept me excited |
| nerves about dancing in front of others. | | | | and interested in practicing often. I also discovered |
| I've often found that many of my male friends are | | | | (from the different teachers) that sometimes there are |
| more comfortable with the idea of learning to dance at | | | | various names or spellings for the same step in hula. I |
| home in front of the TV rather than in a studio in front | | | | feel wiser for this well-rounded knowledge. |
| of others. Even my male friends who have no interest | | | | Of course, if you are very excited about attending a |
| in dancing (or even an aversion to it) will agree to | | | | dance class and meeting new people, by all means |
| learning couple's dancing with a video. | | | | you should take a class - you'll enjoy it! You can |
| Are There Any Drawbacks To This Method? | | | | always use a video for extra practice if you feel that |
| Students who are very inquisitive may find that learning | | | | you don't completely understand a move or that you |
| to dance in front of a pre-recorded video is a little | | | | need more practice. There are many options available |
| frustrating. They will quickly discover that they cannot | | | | for you to learn to dance at your own pace. |
| ask questions in the way that they typically would. | | | | |
