Since we started our dance school
10 months ago we have been growing steadily both in terms of the number of
students attending our classes as well as the hours we teach per week. It has
been a fantastic experience to get involved in more and more projects and
increase our weekly classes from just level 1 and level 2 in Eggborough to
teaching several levels in Eggborough, York, Leeds and Selby with our newest
course starting in Tadcaster on 1st September. We have loved every
minute of it and have been very lucky to be blessed with very nice students who
are eager to learn the moves we teach and support us in every way they can.
Outside of classes we have been
increasing our social media presence in order to answer any questions about our
classes and teaching, as well as provide our students with a wealth of material
that will help them in their dance training. Since we started our dance school
we have created the following platforms to stay in touch with our students and
distribute information connected to our classes which are discussed in turn:
Our website was the first online
platform we created and has been our main hub to pass on any information
regarding our classes and our dance school. This ranges from topics such as
dance etiquette to the full syllabus we follow as well as a comprehensive FAQ
section. Our website is constantly updated and contains all our current events
and classes as well as showing an up to date calendar which informs students of
any cancellation or changes to class times, venues etc. when necessary.
This is our main forum where we
can connect with our local community so that people can find out which classes
and events are close to their location.
Our aim has always been to
introduce students to other aspects of the dances we teach, not just the moves
themselves i.e. the history, culture, musicality etc. As we have limited time to
pass on the more theoretical but important aspects of these dances in class, we
have created this blog to give students as much background information as
possible around the moves they learn as well as analyse concepts that seem to
cause a lot of confusion based on the feedback we receive.
Facebook:
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Tiempo España
Dance Academy Group https://www.facebook.com/TiempoEspanaDance
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Tiempo España
Dance Academy Blog Page https://www.facebook.com/Tiempo-Espa%C3%B1a-Dance-Academy-Blog-821237101312678
We have 3 different Facebook sites
to connect with students and people interested in our classes. Our Facebook
page is a landing page for anyone searching for us via this medium and directly
connects them with our website and our Facebook group.
Our Facebook group is a way for
our students to connect with each other and raise any general questions about
our school and our classes. This is also where we announce all of our latest
news.
Our Facebook blog page enables our
students to comment and discuss the content of our blog and ask any further
questions on the articles we write.
Mailing List: tiempoespanadance@hotmail.com
Our mailing list informs all our
subscribers about cancellations, company news and updates. The information
distributed is essentially the same as what we announce via Meetup and Facebook
and is therefore predominantly designed for people who do not have access to
these media forms.
This is the place where we save
some of our favourite songs in a playlist so our students can listen to them at
home and practice their moves to music.
One of the questions we have been
asked a lot, particularly in the last few months, is whether we can give our
students a video of the various moves we teach in class so that they can
practice their steps. To accommodate this demand, we have created some videos
with the help of one of our best and most enthusiastic students who kindly
offered his equipment and photography experience. We will distribute these
videos in the form of a Youtube channel by uploading one move at a time every
last Friday of the month. This will coincide with a post on this blog which
will be published on the same day, describing the move, the history, the hand
sign, etc. in more details.
Initially, we will only publish
moves that can be done both en parejas
as well as en rueda along with their
respective Rueda hand sign. At a later stage we may additionally produce videos
that are specifically related to Ruedas.
To get things started we have
published all the videos for such moves that have been discussed in this blog
so far i.e. Paso Casino, Sombrero and Enchufla. As discusses previously, Paso
Casino is the default step and is therefore never called or signalled in a
Rueda so no hand sign is shown in the video. The move Dame which has been
discussed previously is not included in our Youtube channel currently as it is
a Rueda move so is not part of our current series. To see the full list of our
current videos please visit our Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu_MbF5v5N-PNPm_9WCrefA.
