Ice dance progression recently came up in the practice thread and I am wondering what other ice dancers choose to do: one dance at a time or multiple dances at the same time? If multiple, on average how many?
During group dance lesson last week, a fellow skater said he was very surprised that when he returned to the class after a summer off, the class is already doing bronze dances like Hickory Hoedown, while previously we'll just getting to pre-bronze. I said we haven't really tested or mastered the pre-bronzes yet, but it seems like the coaches' teaching philosophy to get us going with more dances, and by the time the higher level ones are good, the lower level dances would likely pass with flying colors. (Did not tell him we experimented with 14 step too, lol)
From reading older practice threads, I got the impression that dance group lessons tend to work on multiple dances (even across many levels) at the same time. Is it true in general? The most likely reason I can think of is to keep skaters at all levels interested. Or in some regions, lack of testing sessions maybe.