Tag: teaching

  • On Judging (Introduction): A Few Questions

    A Few Questions Yeah, I can judge the contest. I was going to judge them anyway. –Nina Gilkenson, said (in an obviously jokingly manner) to an organizer. The first time you’re given a clipboard and asked to judge a swing dance contest, here are some of the questions that might go through your mind, perhaps…

  • The Old Timer (Part 1: A Classless Dance)

    Author’s note: As you read this essay, please note it was composed in 2010, and though the main ideas are still valid I would make several different choices in how I present it were I writing it today, such as the use of non-gendered language when referring to Followers and Leaders. (I hope to compose…