Our First-Dance Teacher!
Mireille is the best!!!! Two months before our wedding, we started looking for a teacher for our first dance. Before choosing her, we picked up a few places nearby, and we compared teachers by reading reviews, checking prices, and watching their dances on YouTube. Mireille was already great in our comparison chart at this point (of just looking at Internet information). But she is actually way above great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have 9 lessons with her (45 mins each), and every time we learn so much. I'm completely a beginner, and our first lesson was about basics. We showed her what kind of dance we'd like to do (3 YouTube video clips). Then she soon integrated some of the steps into our first lesson. Then, from the second lesson, we had a music for our first dance. She instantly choreographed the first 30 seconds of the song, then we could learn the steps right away.
During each lesson, not only she teaches us new steps, she gives us great tips. My husband had learned a lot about dance before, and he says "her tips are more than intermediate level, and you can't usually learn in a group lesson. It's really worth paying this money."
Not only her dance/ teaching skills, but her personality is so great. She's smart and fun! She is super professional. She always cares about us. For example, she remembers what happened to us in the previous week, and she asks us how it went. She is great at communication, and she makes us laugh hard every time! Also she's diligent. She is never late. She's on time, and waiting for us.
I can still go on, but I think I covered most of the points I wanted to share with future first-dance learners. In short, she's the best for the first dance teacher!
By the way, 8-lesson package sounds about right to feel confident about dancing at wedding. Because we had 9 classes and enough time to prepare, she actually gave us a lot of good advice on other parts of our wedding such as Grand Entrance (we have fun opening with music:), Before-First Dance (how Groom escorts Bride, and warm up before the First Dance starts), and Mother-Son Dance (How Groom escorts Mom). We practiced with music:) She's AMAZING! I didn't expect that she would help us this much!!!!!
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