Luxembourg is an impressive city filled with towering bridges, buildings abutting old fortress walls, and extensive casemates. Great appreciation is deserved when you discover these battlements only represent 5-10% of its original fortifications. It’s a great city to explore and I’m glad Jesse Hanus and I had the chance to teach a full weekend of lindy hop, blues, solo jazz, and aerials for Swing Dance Luxembourg.

During that crazy packed teaching weekend, one thing has stuck with me. There was the moment during a Saturday class where two extra follows somehow only had one couple between them. That’s bad if you’re the extra role, so I quickly moved one of the extra follows putting more couples between them. This happened behind Jesse and she looked behind, saw what occurred, and nodded assent. Acknowledged, moving on.

Possessing broad awareness is a great teacher skill. You need to be aware of the individual players, but also the whole group. We want the students to have fun, learn something valuable, improve or own the tools to improve during self guided practice, and dance in partnership as much as possible.

That being said, we had a great time teaching in Luxembourg. I thought the students were enthusiastic and eager to learn. They worked hard both days and finished especially strong on Sunday as we finished the entire solo jazz choreography. Well done and thanks for having us out.