What does it mean when some one says (like a ballet teacher) that you have good technique? (or bad t

WHAT IS GOOD TECNIQUE AND WHAT IS BAD TECHNIQUE? Please :)

What does it mean when some one says (like a ballet teacher) that you have good technique? (or bad technique)?sunshine

Technique is the technical part of performing a particular dance style. It is the body of knowledge about positions, placement and how you transition from one move to another. As Ava said, it can be taught. It is the spelling and grammar of dance; there is a right way and wrong way to do it.

Rhythm, or having a sense of musicality, is not technique. A dancer can have impeccable technique, but have their counts totally off. One can acquire a sense of musicality with practice. But one can have rhythm along with sloppy technique.

And then there is sheer talent and performance quality that cannot be taught and which is pretty much inborn. This is the most important element in dancing and can even compensate for less-than-perfect technique (which contradicts what Ava said). This is the basis on which students are accepted to Juilliard and is the reason why an audience is drawn to watch dancers perform on stage.

What does it mean when some one says (like a ballet teacher) that you have good technique? (or bad technique)?star theater opera theater

Good technique is like pizza sauce.

If the sauce is bad on a pizza, there's no helping it, through the darn thing away and close the store. But if the crust is mediocre and the cheese is so-so, the pizza can be saved by good sauce. But then again, is the crust is burnt on the outside, raw on the inside and tastes like the stage slime they used on set from the last sci-fi sludge monster movie that came out, no sauce in the world is going to fix that pizza crust.

You see my analogy. If technique is your sauce, the dough his everything that makes a dancer a dancer, the poise, the grace, the flexibility, the supple movement. Technique is imperative, it means that you know where your limbs go, how to put them there and how to make the lines look pleasing. It involves proper extension and position and turnout. There is no set definition for technique because is encompasses every move you make in dance, so it is dance.

When they tell you that you have bad technique that's because you're probably starting out and your muscles don't know their way around the steps.

Beyond that, I can't really explain it. It can be learned if you don't have it. I can be lost if you don't use it. But defined, oh no, it's far too elusive for that.
Technique is the WAY you move to produce the desireable visual picture. I.e. how do you initiate your movement, what muscles do you use and when. Good (proper) technique will allow you to perform difficult elements, while with poor technique you'd probably lose your balance and fall somewhere along the way.
Technique is the basic fundamentals of dance. You may be taught patterns, but it is the technique by which you do them that makes them look good.

Technique is HOW you step, turn, hold your self, your frame with partner, and sometimes exactly where you step.

Are your toes pointed straight ahead (good) or turned in (bad). Are you heel leading when you should be toe leading a step? stomping across the floor when you should be gliding?
When your B teacher says that it is a compliment. Your cordination and the overall ppicture has a good balance. Your efforts are not wasted but is giving the corect output.