Centre for Lindy Hop Education

Teachers, this is a great opportunity for you: Christiane and Klaus from the Shim Sham dance school in Ahlen, Germany are looking for trained full-time teachers and will finance the teacher training program at the Centre for Lindy Hop Education! Link: http://www.shim-sham.de/instructor-wanted/?lang=en

Instructor wanted | Swingtanz in Ahlen We are looking for dance instructors for the swing dances Lindy hop, Boogie-Woogie, S**g, Charleston, and Balboa (starting in May 2017). We are offering a position (permanent employment or freelance) as a dance instructor (m/f) in Ahlen for a teaching couple or two to three individual instructors. T...

Do you agree? And what implications does the answer to this question have for us as teachers?

Have you noticed a difference in your dancing by improving your teaching skills?
After over 30 years of dancing I am amazed again and again how much working on my teaching skills has helped improve my dancing. I have become cleaner and more precise in my dancing, new movements and concepts are so much easier to grasp and implement and I improve much faster.
Every time I analyse what I am doing and figure out how to explain it to my students, I learn somethign new about my dancing - even after 15 years of teaching! What are your experiences? - Jenn Harry

Plenty of opportunities to learn… have you checked out our content page? http://www.lindy-education.com/content-curriculum/content/

We just listed 84 hours (!!) worth of material on our website - yes, the content page is finally online! And the official registration form is online as well! Check out all the exciting topics we´ll be covering: http://www.lindy-education.com/content-curriculum/content/

We have been super busy planning the detailed content for our education program..we should be ready to announce it in the next week or two. And on this note a big thank you to Jay Le Roux for his contributions and support! :-)

In founding the Centre for Lindy Hop Education it is my wish to create a space for all dancers who aspire to study the art of teaching in order to contribute to the Lindy Hop scene. As a dance teacher you will not only get to share your passion for Lindy Hop but in the process of learning how to teach well, you will also learn to better understand movement in itself, how to break it down, and how to apply this new knowledge to your own dancing, which will also allow you to reach your own full potential as a dancer.
As teachers, we are fortunate to be able to influence other dancers by sharing our insights in class. We are the ones leading our class; with that comes a significant responsibility and a wonderful opportunity to shape minds and ideas and nurture our incredibly creative dance scene. Let us take this meaningful task seriously and keep spreading our love for dance by enhancing the quality of our teaching!
Jenn Harry,(Founder of the Centre for Lindy Hop Education)