Sh*t burlesque teachers say …

Sh*t I say frequently as a burlesque teacher…. I know! I hear the words coming out and sometimes I can’t stop .

(1) It’s about the ‘vibe’ of the piece.

I frequently will tell my students this.

Don’t worry. We don’t have steps. Or counts. It doesn’t have to be the same. Just go with it.

(2) There’s no money on the floor, I swept their earlier.

This was said to me by my dancing teacher when I was young as a way of making sure we all to looked at the audience.

He also told me to make sure I did a proper curtsy because the Queen of Sydney would be in the audience….. Sadly I believed this for far too many years.

(3) Don’t bend towards the mirrors (or the audience).

This is something I believe is a legitimately good tip!

When dancing in the studio and doing moves like big bum rolls or leg traces, I always talk about angles. There’s little point doing a move emphasising your butt with your bum pointed away from your fans

Otherwise it’s just a view of your chin.

(4) One more time!

Spoiler: in my classes it is never one more time. !

(5) I don’t think the music isn’t that fast.

Said frequently before running through the choreography and seeing my students staring daggers back at me!

Teachers- please let me know I’m not the only one that spouts these sentences!