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**Emma** · 24th-April-2003, 08:35 PM

Hmm. Lots of really good points from everyone

Here's my twopennorth. Including a small soapboax section you may like to skim over.

I feel that my role as a taxi dancer is to be welcoming friendly and approachable, whether or not I happen to be wearing my taxi t-shirt. I think that as a taxi dancer I should wherever possible take part in the beginners class, so I can keep chatting to people who are still beginners and encourage them to continue dancing. During freestyle if I happen to be taxi-ing I will try to dance with as many beginners as possible. I've not been taxi-ing long and have noticed that naturally this has bled over into my non-taxi time. Because some of these people are pretty good after a few weeks. I wanna dance with them

I'd love to have had some form of training. But I didn't. I fall back on my teacher training and on working with other more experienced taxi dancers. It would have helped me a lot to have had some form of document that told me what I was supposed to do. (However I accept I am fairly fixated on pieces of paper telling me what to do - other people would probably be perfectly confident without one). Most of my knowledge of what is expecxted of taxi dancers comes from reading this forum. And of course from how I was treated by the taxi dancers when I started.

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On the subject of London Taxis a friend of mine who is already an excellent taxi dancer at Charlton was recently turned down by London on the basis that he 'didn't meet the criteria'. In other words, he hasn't seen 40 for a few years. I fail to understand how age is a criteria in choosing taxi dancers. Personally I believe that there should be a cross section broadly similar to that of the dancers at a venue. It makes me absolutely mad. But then, I'm over the magic 35 myself, so it would I suppose.
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But yeah Des, I'm with you. A more consistent approach would be good, but please please not with a bloody age limit. Some of us wrinkling beings over the age of 35 have something to offer too.

24th-April-2003, 08:35 PM	#8 (permalink)
Emma Omnipotent Moderatrix (LMC) Join Date: May 2002 Location: Sarf East London Posts: 1,602 Status: No Status Rep Power: 4 Rep.: 99	Hmm. Lots of really good points from everyone Here's my twopennorth. Including a small soapboax section you may like to skim over. I feel that my role as a taxi dancer is to be welcoming friendly and approachable, whether or not I happen to be wearing my taxi t-shirt. I think that as a taxi dancer I should wherever possible take part in the beginners class, so I can keep chatting to people who are still beginners and encourage them to continue dancing. During freestyle if I happen to be taxi-ing I will try to dance with as many beginners as possible. I've not been taxi-ing long and have noticed that naturally this has bled over into my non-taxi time. Because some of these people are pretty good after a few weeks. I wanna dance with them I'd love to have had some form of training. But I didn't. I fall back on my teacher training and on working with other more experienced taxi dancers. It would have helped me a lot to have had some form of document that told me what I was supposed to do. (However I accept I am fairly fixated on pieces of paper telling me what to do - other people would probably be perfectly confident without one). Most of my knowledge of what is expecxted of taxi dancers comes from reading this forum. And of course from how I was treated by the taxi dancers when I started. [begin skim] On the subject of London Taxis a friend of mine who is already an excellent taxi dancer at Charlton was recently turned down by London on the basis that he 'didn't meet the criteria'. In other words, he hasn't seen 40 for a few years. I fail to understand how age is a criteria in choosing taxi dancers. Personally I believe that there should be a cross section broadly similar to that of the dancers at a venue. It makes me absolutely mad. But then, I'm over the magic 35 myself, so it would I suppose. [end skim] But yeah Des, I'm with you. A more consistent approach would be good, but please please not with a bloody age limit. Some of us wrinkling beings over the age of 35 have something to offer too.