Wondering...

Why is it that teaching Oriental Dance is more and more difficult as I acquire more and more experience and knowledge of it?! By logic, if you know more and better of a subject, then it becomes easier to teach it but I seem to swimm against the tide, as usual!

Then truth is, the more I know about Oriental Dance, the more doubts and questions I have.

Sure I have my own convictions and discoveries about it and those are the ones I pass to my students but they are ONLY my very own perspective of the subject and, even being mine, they develop and change with time and life events. Nothing is static, specially the knowledge I assimilate in my career and LIFE.

I feel kind of surprised when I see teachers so full of RULES, being so sure of everything and having the crystalized answers for every question. I am more and more clueless, although I guide my students into their own path to find their own truth.

It seems that QUESTIONS and the feeling of "knowing nothing" is REALLY what we get as we progress in an art form or subject.

The more I know, the least I seem to know and questions fall from my tree as if we were in full Autumn bliss...

I am not worried about it, though...just FASCINATED with it.