Private Lesson Standard | Peter Maxwell

Product Description

Peter Maxwell’s Standard coaching programme gives viewers access to lessons with a young professional couple. The central teaching method is comparison: Maxwell draws attention to the difference between the couple’s dancing before a correction and their performance after applying his advice. Rather than treating an adjustment as an isolated instruction, the lesson shows its effect within the choreography the couple is dancing.

The programme covers Slow Waltz, Tango, Slowfox and Quickstep, following an introductory chapter. Dancers can use these sessions to observe the process of recognising a problem, applying guidance and identifying an improvement. For teachers, the same material offers a reference for explaining changes to students and reinforcing what has been learned. The emphasis on the before-and-after result makes the recording particularly relevant to intermediate and advanced dancers interested in coaching as well as their own Standard development.

The four dance chapters give that comparison method a clear structure. A viewer concentrating on Tango can return to its coaching session, while someone reviewing the Standard collection can follow the Slow Waltz, Tango, Slowfox and Quickstep chapters in sequence. The practical interest is the teaching interaction: the couple supplies a visible example, and Maxwell’s advice is assessed through the change in their dancing. This is coaching footage with a defined set of dance subjects, useful for considering how an explanation becomes an observable adjustment. The complete programme runs 196 minutes; the chapter list identifies the introductory section and each coaching subject.

Course Contents

• 1. Intro ‘Private Lesson – Standard’
• 2. Teaching – Coaching Standard Choreography (Slow Waltz)
• 3. Teaching – Coaching Standard Choreography (Tango)
• 4. Teaching – Coaching Standard Choreography (Slowfox)
• 5. Teaching – Coaching Standard Choreography (Quickstep)