What to expect at your first dance class
Nervous about walking into a dance studio for the first time? Here is exactly what happens, minute by minute.
Everyone feels a little nervous before their first dance class. The good news: nobody is watching you as closely as you think, and everyone in the room remembers their own first class.
The warm-up
Every class starts with ten minutes of warm-up to the music: simple steps, stretches and isolations that get your body ready to move.
Learning the routine
Your instructor teaches the choreography in small chunks of eight counts, first slowly without music, then with it. Lost a step? Just keep moving and pick it up on the next eight.
The final run
At the end, the group dances the whole piece together, usually twice. That moment when it all clicks is why people come back.