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Has your teacher ever said something really deep or funny or just plain memorable? Share it here! 3nodding

- I remember one time we were doing pirouette preps from fifth position. And my teacher goes off on this whole long speech: -
"So think of your foot as the squirrel and the floor as a dog. The squirrel doesn't like the dog. It wants to get far away without tipping over the tree until it finds its nice little nook in the hollow of the trunk. In there he has a little bed and a dresser and a little mirror and a little jacket..."
"What are you talking about?!"
"You need to turn out your standing leg" (yes, my teacher's a little odd at times... whee )

- And last night whilst doing our adagios, she said a really nice line -
"Sing with your body - dance with your heart" (she compares our choreography to a song that we're to sing to the audience)

So, share your instructor stories here! 4laugh

"when doing a 'pick-up pas de bourree' don't pound the bugs into the ground, be light and airy, like a fairy!"
by various teachers i've taken from.

Once when my teacher was talking about the position of the heel in a front attitude, she told us that most teachers tell the students to imagine they're resting something on their heel. She then said that she'd had many international teachers and they'd all tell her to rest different things. The English teacher said a cup of tea, the Russian teacher said a glass of vodka, the French teacher said a glass of champagne, and the American teacher said a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich! Also, when she wants us to point our feet during an exercise (usually jumps) she'll scream out "Work those totsises!"

hey FB how are you? thats funny, we are in the same guild he he he. but anyhow, i went en pointe in january, and i was just kinda messing around, and i went up into fifth. my teachers(i have 2) seen me, and just gasped and stared at me with open mouths. i couldnt understand why. then everyone was rushing into the room and my assistant teacher grabbed her camera phone and everyone was looking at me and stuff. i was soooo confused! i kept asking what? what? but they werent telling me. then finally they told me i had a perfect pointe, and my fifth was amazing. it was my dream come true. ever since i was 6, when i seen the nutcracker, i wanted to be a dancer. when i was 8, i became one. i am now 14, and am working really hard to be the best i can be. i started crying because i was so happy! they told me i was good enough to go professional, and that i was a wonderful dancer. i am not that good of a dancer, but for my level i am, if that makes sense. and so, the thing i remember the most is my teacher saying once "that is a true ballerina" because im always stretching when the others are talking, always working harder, always leaping higher, going longer, spinning faster, dancing better, practicing with more passion. i am a dancer, and all of my thanks goes to my Heavenly Father, my God, who has given me this wonderful talent to share with others.

My dance teacher is halarious. She comes up with teh weirdest things. most common one.( and the only one I can remember right now because we have been having a 4 week break.)

"Stop! In teh name of fifth!"

then between sided at the barre she will go off on some topic for about 5 mintes and I'll eventually have to remind her that we didnt to teh other side yet when she is about to think up a new warm up for us. stare

any ways... -goes off- I miss class currently.

I have a few....my regular dance teacher is actually pretty funny at times,like when we were first learning our jazz company production number, which was to "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", every other word was "fabulous" and she was saying it it this really funny voice, and we were just giggling constantly. Also, she's told us since we were little that the little indentation on the side of your knee where you're supposed to place your toes in retiree is called a "dancer's pocket" and God only gave them to dancer's. Also, we had a Russian teacher from the Moscow ballet come down during nutcracker to teach us the steps because that's who we perform with, and all during rehearsal we were laughing constantly because he would be calling us all these weird animal names in Russian and then translating and it was just weird and hilarious and stupid(this was rehearsal for Mice, so that's part of the reason it was so funny)

We were doing barre work one day and my teacher said she didn't know what to name her tiny tot's dance. She said that they asked "are we ducks?"
My best friend and I couldn't stop laughing, since in Princess Tutu the main character is a Duck/Person/Magical Ballet Super Girl
(Sorry...we have silly ballet inside jokes from anime and manga...mostly Princess Tutu and Swan >>)

okay this one is more of a story but I have 2 teachers, one, Ingrid, teaches my ballet and pointe and the other, Gretel, teaches tap-- but they're both involved with our dance company which includes a select few of us doing all sorts of styles-- and so Ingrid was leading our dance company rehearsal yesterday and I had tap later that night, so somehow Ingrid ended up at the studio after our rehearsal and I told her she should pretend to be Gret's new student-- and we decided she should be a foreign exchange student who doesn't speak a word of English. so Ing goes out to her car and Gret comes in several minutes later and I crack up telling her that she has a new foreign exchange student and she asks me who it is and if it's me. just then Ing walks in and Gret goes "Oh so it's this lady" Ing nods, Gret continues, "I saw this lady on the street and even though she doesn't speak a word of English she understands Dance" and she does all these very wacky moves ending with a pathetic plie, and Ing says, "She just said, 'we're happy to have you here today, how far did you travel this evening?'" and Gret says, "Yeah! Some people call it a bad plie but I call it communication!"

Ingrid when handing out plastic vampire teeth: "Now keep straight whose is whose, like you put yours on this table and I'll put mine on this one and she can put hers on that one-- and when we're done with them you can either keep them and take them home and wash them-- or I can take them home and wash them and we'll have no clue whose they are again..."

Gret on the dance she was designing: "I got this totally great idea for the Garlic Festival-- I mean-- we're gonna have you 3 be vampires, and you 3 be garlic lovers and you're all gonna fall in love-- and you-- are going to be the vampire king/queen and will try to stop the lovers and love will eventually triumph over all!"
"Isn't that a bit corny?"
"I know isn't it great?"

later-- "Okay you're now going to rip off the jacket of your tux revealing-- bum bum bum-- T SHIRTS saying "I love Garlic! and then you guys are gonna put your teeth in!"