The ideal is round. The body looks round. It moves round. So you get a whole different line. Learning to Shine Sharpley says her greatest satisfaction occurs when she sees what she's learned channeled through her students out to the audience.
Dancing is a living tradition.
Should I be tempted to ease up, seven teachers behind me are urging me on. Entrance into Dance Diaspora is by audition only. Courses in Sharpley's West African dance, and jazz and blues improv courses also help. A few years ago a junior came to me with no experience, but she wanted to dance, badly. She had to reconfigure and retrain her entire body.