I think the only 'training' a taxi dancer needs can be summed up in 2 words: be positive!
We can all remember the first nervous time we went to a dance class. Having someone telling me not to worry/it'll come with practice/I'm still making mistakes 3 years in so why should you feel bad/ etc. was a help to me when I started.
When I taxiied, if it was a beginner's first night, I would work around all their mistakes as far as possible. When things went wrong, I'd take the blame for it. As a male taxi, this was easy enough to do - it's a male-led dance, after all. I think for female taxis the job is a lot more difficult, however...infinite patience and a durable smile required, I think.
On subsequent nights with that person, I'd only try to correct big obvious errors, and even then, referred them to the teacher in order to get the right (well, the 'official' anyway) answer.
