Am I Being Unfair?

[xoIrishDancexo]

well, this is kinda a long story but here it goes.
ok so i have been doing my adv. beg. treble jig for about a year i guess. to me its really boring so now my teacher is finally teaching me the novice step and im sooo excited. ok so also every since i started dancing me and this other girl have been friends and you know kinda progressed together. well today we had a sub in dance( an adult from the adult class) so it was kinda a free day. anyway so usually i go an extra day on tuesday when my friend doesnt so she hadnt seen my new step yet. so the teacher had written it down so i did it to music a couple of times to fix some timing. and then my friend says ohh that looks so fun(which it is) and she says TEACH IT 2 ME.. now she has only done 1 adv. beg. treble jig competition. and i was like well i dont think i should cause our teacher hasnt taught it 2 u yet and that she prob. wanted her to get more experience with the older one. and shes like it wont matter/ you dont need her permission. but i wouldnt teach her so then now i think she just thinks that i dont want to teach it 2 her because i want to stay better or something. and i think the main reason is cause i figure my teacher would teach her it when she's ready. another thing is it kinda reminds me of the whole people getting mad about the beg. getting solo dresses without working for it. i feel that she needs more competitions before she learns it and that i had to work for it.


WOW i prob. seem like a drama queen now for righting all that about one little dance step. anyway do you think im being fair? what should i do?

[dancer-girl333]

yes i think it is ok, your reasoning is perfectly reanonable (hehehe) and if she gets angry or annoyed, thats her problem. just make sure you dont act like you think your better or anything or then shell REALLY get angry:mad: :mad: :mad:

[xoIrishDancexo]

thnx. thats good advice =)

[kicks_n_clicks]

You're being fair and your reason is justified. You deserved to learn that step because you took extra classes and have been dancing longer and you need to prepare for Novice. She should talk to the teacher if she wants to learn it. That way the teacher can say if she's ready or not.

[aligetreel]

hmm.. I don't know. I probably wouldn't have taught her either.

Except at our school, there's levels. Competition levels sort of matter but don't.

Within a class there are 4 levels either doing certain steps together or doing totally different ones, but every level knows what steps they are allowed to do, so this is an issue that usually never happens.

As well teacher's word is law in what step you do. :p

Don't worry, your friend will get over it. Or she won't and you'll have to get over it. But you did the right thing by playing safe.

Good luck. :)

[reelbigmouth]

That is a hard situation. You are being fair. You wouldn't want your dance teacher to get mad at you. Just tell her that you just want to stay out of trouble, and that's why. Hope it all works out for you!

[Dancerdoll]

You are not being unfair!You just didn't know should you teach it to her at the time.And she wasn't taught the step.

[Eire _ girl]

I heard of this happaning, personally I wouldn't A) If she doesn't learn ANy step properly she could hurt herself and If she does learn it when it comes time to actually do it she could have taught herself the wrong way and that takes forever to undo a habit! Your right in your reasoning. If she's a good friend she won't get upset over petty little things like this. If she gives you more trouble talk to your teacher.