| Cheating off each other |
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| Written by Sapphire | |
| Monday, 16 May 2005 | |
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In class today, I kept hearing the phase "I was cheating off of ...." I was using it too. I would like to purpose a different way of thinking about it. Instead of thinking we are cheating off of one person or another in a group choreography, why don't we think that we are dancing with the others and that we are making sure we are in sync? Now I can hear some of my classmates and I can hear them saying "well, I haven't practiced as much as I would have liked" or "I don't know the dance as well as I would like". But isn't that the case for all of us? Since we are all students and we aren't doing this fulltime, we have to balance it with all the other things that we are involved with in our lives. And I KNOW that is a lot of stuff for all of us in my class. Perhaps it is a type of modesty. I do have a good fortune to have nice women (and one man now, grin) in the class. It is a way of acknowledging that someone has put in the extra effort to really know the choreography. AND instead of "cheating", how about "checking in with" or something else as nice and then say to the other student "hey, I can really tell you have been working on this dance". Cheating sounds like we are taking away from someone, but aren't we really trying to add to how the group looks? I guess that statement does assume that we are putting in our best effort at the moment and that we do care to practice some outside of class (reality of life can interfer with the latter). So - what are your thoughts? -Terrah |
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