When I coach a dancer in their technique I am specific about what area I am speaking about. Every now and then I talk to the students about 'technique' and help them understand that technique is a tool for them to use in their craft, but not as a judgment, or stereotype, of how to think about themselves or others. From their examples you may gain some insights when speaking about technique to sensitive and burgeoning dance students.
Technique is the test of sincerity.
If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes.