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Call Lee Ann at 240-529-4961 or email weddingdance@yahoo.com to make an appointment. You'll begin dancing at your very first lesson. You and your partner, and guests if you bring them, arrive for your lesson. Please carry in a clean pair of smooth-soled (non-rubber) shoes and change in the foyer. This will aid your dancing, as well as protect our floors. As your wedding gets closer, you may want to wear your wedding shoes, and a dress or skirt similar in style to your wedding gown. You may want to bring your petticoat to practice. Grooms will want to wear a suit jacket.
If you only have time to learn to dance to your first song, bring the recording of it with you to the lesson, on either a CD or cassette. If you have time to learn a few dances so you can enjoy your reception even more, bring any music you'd like.
At your first lesson, I'll ask you to sign a waiver of liability. Then on the back of the waiver I'll take notes of what you've learned in class. Lots of people find it beneficial to take their own notes during class as well.
Based on your song, and the dimensions of your dance floor, I'll put together some basic steps to get you through your first dance.
Once you've got those down, I'll add some 'extras', like twirls and dips. We can also go over the timing of the dance; when during the reception it will take place, what direction you'll be coming from to get onto the dance floor, where your guests will be sitting in relation to the dance floor, what happens after your first dance (i.e. parents' dances, toast, cake). By the end of your first lesson, you should be able to at least get through your first song.
At your next lesson, we'll review what you learned at your previous lesson, and add another step or two. I'll put the steps in order for you, and have you practice a pattern of figures so it becomes muscle memory.
By the third lesson, (and hopefully some practice in between), you should be feeling a little more comfortable with the steps, the dance, and the whole process. This is where we can start having fun, and incorporating your personalities into the dance more. For instance, one very fun couple had the bride twirling the groom! Another ended their beautiful Waltz with the traditional curtsy and bow, and then a High Five! Still another ended their Foxtrot with a nice dip, then the groom let go and said, "Look Ma, no hands!" because the bride was actually holding herself up (I can show you how to do this so no one gets hurt).
If you have time for additional lessons, you may want to consider other dances that will be taking place during the reception. Is there a parents' dance you want to learn to dance to? How about a last song? A cake-cutting dance? I've even taught a whole bridal party how to do a line dance cha-cha to K.C. and the Sunshine Band's "Boogie Shoes". They put on a nice show for the guests!
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