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TOCA TEACHER · Lesson 26 · Teaching

Your next chapter as a dance teacher and artist

The teacher builds skill, depth and a steady base. The artist builds a name, a body of work and the visibility that fills your classes. You do not have to choose, and the strongest careers braid the two.

Dawou Tarraxo, pioneer of Tarraxo. Your next chapter as a dance teacher and artist

Build the craft first, then let the name grow on top of it. Exactly as passive dance comes before creative dance.

Be consistent, be recognisable, be generous. And remember that the marketing only ever carries what the teaching delivers.

Choose one craft goal and one visibility goal.

Teaching kizomba and building a name are two careers that feed each other.

Your next chapter as a teacher and artist, step by step

  1. YOUR TEACHING AND YOUR ARTISTRY ARE TWO CAREERS THAT CAN SUPPORT EACH OTHER.
  2. The teacher builds skill. The artist builds a name and a body of work.
  3. You do not have to choose. The strongest careers braid the two.
  4. Build the craft first, then let the name grow on top of it.
  5. Exactly as passive dance comes before creative dance.
  6. Be consistent. Be recognisable. Be generous.
  7. The marketing only carries what the teaching delivers.
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Page 315 of The teacher's guide by Dawou Tarraxo, the TOCA Method page this lesson comes from
The teacher's guide · page 315

The student’s book takes dancers from the first foundations to real feeling. The teacher’s guide gives instructors the structure to pass it on. Both in English, French and Spanish, on Amazon and Apple Books.

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T O C A

Two bodies. One connection.

TTouchThe connection with your partner. Feeling through contact, never through force.
OObservationListening to your partner’s body, energy and tempo.
CControlMastery of your own movement. Precision without tension.
AAwarenessFull presence: with yourself, your partner and the music.