Dear Diane, My student is a gifted and attractive young woman who is very serious about her dancing. She takes three private lessons from me each week and we compete Pro-Am at the Open Bronze level. Recently, however, a problem has come up that is threatening to derail our work together. I’m afraid that she…
Dear Diane, I have three gentleman students who all share the same problem. No matter how many times I correct them, they constantly look down while they are dancing. These gentlemen have been studying for a long time, but this one problem will not go away. It’s becoming tiresome to repeat “Look up! Look up!…
By Dolly Tavasieff Original article in Open Exchanges The dancers enrolled in the Ballroom Dance Teachers College teacher training program all share the same dream: to become an instructor and make ballroom dancing their life. Many of these future teachers are fresh out of high school or college and have been dancing all their lives….
by Paul Sterman The Oakland Tribune As a young woman growing up in Brooklyn, Diane Jarmolow’s life seemed to be all mapped out for her. “I was supposed to be a math teacher, like all the good Jewish girls from New York City were supposed to be,” she says with a smile. But Jarmolow moved…