{"id":4507,"date":"2018-01-01T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2018-01-01T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T10:00:19","slug":"keeping-lessons-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/dance-lessons\/keeping-lessons-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Lessons Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/11\/iStock-857612320.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/11\/iStock-857612320-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4508 \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dancing isn\u2019t like a bowling league, where you join, show up once a week, toss the ball down the lane and see where it falls. With a once-a-week frequency, you maintain your skill level, you don\u2019t improve. And at Fred Astaire Dance Studio, we want to see you improve \u2013 because you will enjoy dancing more!<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we encourage our students to keep their lessons close together so they don\u2019t forget what they learn and have to spend half of each lesson relearning what was taught last time. Practice is key. Practice makes progress.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend some type of dance two to three times a week \u2013 perhaps it\u2019s a private lesson followed by a group lesson and a dance party. That\u2019s three opportunities to repeat what you\u2019ve learned and become comfortable with it, while building muscle memory.<\/p>\n<p>Like learning a language or to play a musical instrument, dance requires repetition, persistence and frequency. Let\u2019s dance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dancing isn\u2019t like a bowling league, where you join, show up once a week, toss the ball down the lane and see where it falls. With a once-a-week frequency, you maintain your skill level, you don\u2019t improve. And at Fred Astaire Dance Studio, we want to see you improve \u2013 because you will enjoy dancing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance-lessons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}