[kina]

Aziza Sa'id says (somewhere on her website, hey, where did she go?) that you should be able to dance for a full hour at the rate that you would for a performance, which is a cardiovascular workout.

While the performance itself might be only 20 minutes, your practice sessions should not be.

Depending on the level, my classes are cardio, albeit low intensity. I take a combination, break it down and treat it like an aerobics class, we do the movement half tempo until I'm sure people have it, then tempo then double time, then from the top. These combination add up, so working on 30 seconds of a piece can take an hour and people will have experienced a cardio impact and sweat.

I like it better when my assistant is there though, she can keep demo-ing while I go around correcting. If I don't have someone at the front of the class, people tend to stop working, dunno what that's about.

When I'm practicing, i tend to stop and look at what I'm doing so if I don't like how something looks, i will work it until I do. When I'm performing, it's still a cardio workout because my movements are bigger than when I'm practicing.