Pet peeves in class

Adult dancer here - when other adults talk too much in between combos when it's obvious the teacher is trying to move on to the next combination. I get so irritated.

When the teacher has a clear favorite in the class and tailors the class around them

When the teacher forgets to do the left (or right) and everyone shushes the student who wants to do the combo and remind the teacher. Sorry that I don’t want to be lopsided lmao.

When people don't position themselves in a proper formation, when we do combinations from the corner.

When people barely travel (I know some can't help it yet, but it's still annoying, it is what it is) and the next group has no space, walking in front of a group, who is about to start, walking off too slowly and blocking the space while the music keeps going.

My big one is spatial awareness. Like...we have a mirror and we have eyes, please use them! You can clearly see that where you're standing is entirely too close to someone or that your spacing is off, don't ignore that.

People in my class seem incapable of lining up into rows and utilizing “windows” when we go to center. We have plenty of room where this should not be an issue, and yet people haphazardly make uneven lines, don’t seem to know how to change lines, and either try to hide behind you or pick a spot directly in front of you obscuring your view of the instructor and/or mirrors.

I did a few musicals growing up so I guess I have some familiarity with moving in a “staged” environment, but I also feel like it isn’t a hard thing to figure out. It isn’t the end of the world, but it definitely annoys me and makes me cranky, lol.

When people don't have decorum. Talking between combinations, showing up late, can't space themselves properly from other people center floor, make a big deal about who they go across the floor with...

Also. Combinations that do not match the music.

Students correcting other students.

(Adult beginner)

• quiet talking teachers: I literally cannot hear you. Can you please get a gym instructor microphone?
• street shoes on the studio floor
• failure to teach ballet etiquette: while I love my casual fun beginner classes, teachers should at least make us aware those ballet etiquette rules. When you go to open classes, the teachers really expect you to follow the rules, so it helps to have a base so you don’t make a fool of yourself

I can't put it into words, but it is fairly easy to distinguish between people who are minding their own business and stretching and people who want to show off their flexibility.

Students giving fellow students corrections. If you're not the instructor, please don't correct me.

When people don’t know how to space out properly in centre and the teacher doesn’t fix it :) proper spacing was ingrained in me as a child dancer but as an adult dancer, no one seems to care…

It’s not really limited to dance, just any sort of learning environment. Teachers who think if they scream that you’re doing something wrong you’ll magically be able to fix it. Don’t you think if someone can do that they would have?

Showing off. Especially when more experienced dancers show up to a lower level class, and they feel the need to make sure everyone knows they're more experienced.

I had a guy in a class once getting in everyone's way, not giving anyone enough space for centre, doing doubles when the combo was a single, nearly kicking everyone in the face at barre, and taking an extra turn all by himself at the end of the combo.

It boiled my blood. I think there's a difference between really going for it in class, and being disrespectful to others, and this guy was definitely disrespectful. "Wtf" looks were being exchanged frequently between other students. Thankfully, the teacher must have noticed, because he'd usually finish on time, and that day, class was 20min longer.

Oof, after reading some of these comments I'm now worried I'm too chatty. It's my one fun thing and we don't need to be as serious as pre-pro students. Buuuuut eh, I would never try to distract from the overall pace of the class - that's not cool. 

Main thing that peeves me is when going across the floor and someone hangs in the corner as though they're going next, but chickens out and motions for you to join instead and now you're behind, flustered, and off the music. I'd chalk it up to a case of not knowing any better, but I've seen a few people do this multiple times when they should know better. 

 I've seen a few people mention not splitting properly into groups, so I had a laugh when watching class at the last Prix De Lausanne, and these kids that are the creme de la creme also screwed up with that.

Oh, and one more thing is skipping adagio because the teacher doesn't like it / the other students don't like it. Come on man, I have to suffer through turns in almost every class, let me have my one thing!

When folks are too timid to stand in the front line! We shouldn’t have to waste time while the teacher cajoles people to line up properly. It’s ok to not have the combinations down perfectly but standing with your back glued to the wall isn’t helping!

I dance in a small studio, so the dance floor isn't very big. I hate when we're doing something in 2 groups and someone in the resting group does the combo full out in the back to the detriment of the "active" group. We also have an unspoken but known thing where every time your group is the "active" group, you switch from front of the group to back or vice versa - it irritates me to no end when people refuse to switch. There's always someone who thinks they should always be front and center, and they take more than their fair share of space while everyone else tries not to trip or accidentally hit/kick them because they don't know how to hold their spacing, even in combos that aren't supposed to travel.

Edited to add: when my fellow teachers teach a step incorrectly and get upset when it doesn't look the way it should/the way they want. Example: yesterday the teacher was complaining no one was getting a high enough jump during their tour jetes, but the way she taught them to do it, it looks like a tiny jump that lands in 4th tombay instead of a bigger jump that lands in arabesque. Like, fine, teach it good your want, but don't go and get all mad when people do it the way you taught them and have literally never talked about doing any other way at any time.

Teachers who try to cram in as many exercises as possible into a single set at the barre. Like, I’m talking super complicated barre combos that half the class cannot do as quickly as the teacher can, resulting in people sacrificing good and safe technique just to keep up with it! I experienced this recently, and there were only two in the whole class who could keep up (our intermediate class is very mixed in terms of levels bcos we have limited classes available at my studio). And the teacher, seeing these two fantastic students getting it all while the rest of us struggled frantically, then played favourites and showered them with affection for the rest of the session, barely bothering to look at the rest of the class’s technique… it was as if she only wanted to teach to those on the same wavelength as her! Aggravating as hell. Luckily she was a substitute 😭

The talking thing has to be my #1, but I had an experience in class this week that I’ve never encountered before. The dancer in front of me at barre was at least 2, if not 3 counts off the music, usually ahead. It was so disorienting and I really had to concentrate to not let it throw me off. It was almost every exercise and this person was an experienced dancer.

The spacing thing has to be another big one. Sometimes space is tight, and I get that, but folks who consistently stand too close, don’t travel with the rest of their group, going the wrong way (consistently). Please take a lower level class until you can figure this out.

Finally, I used to attend a studio where not enough emphasis was put on dancer safety and proper technique. Dancers with weak ankles turning on them with sickled feet. I was so afraid they were going to break their ankle in the middle of a combination. That, and encouraging these same dancers to do pointe. Eeek!

oh my god i have a few good ones as a returning student in adult beginner classes currently.

disclaimer: i’m a very firm welcomer of everyone from any background or experience level, ballet is for everyone - these are just some things that make my eye twitch.

1) crowding the barre. it is not that hard to determine how much space you need or how much space the person next to / in front of / behind you will need. the lack of spatial awareness with some people makes me feel freaking INSANE. and if i bring up that “hey i actually think we need to space out a bit” (especially as someone with super long limbs) and they literally move 1/2 an inch, i have to hold everything back from just screaming to the heavens

2) refusal to try / not taking the class seriously. nothing makes my blood boil more than watching a beginner who knows NOTHING completely disrespect the entire art form, teacher and class by refusing to try or laughing at themselves the whole time. there is nothing wrong with having humility and humor, i often also laugh at mistakes i make but if you’re spending the entire class saying “i can’t do that” or purposely making mistakes so you don’t have to face the reality of learning, you’re a nuisance.

3) similarly to my last point, experienced dancers who think they’re above refreshing steps. especially if they’re someone who could definitely benefit from re-learning some technical skills. anyone turning their noses up to improvement is truly disgusting and i hope these people, especially, stop dancing because what is the point

In a one-hour class, taking ten minutes at the end to stretch. Like lady, I can stretch at home. Please let's do some more ballet.

My pet peeve is when the teacher gives me a correction after I’ve done the combo like 4 times…now I don’t have the chance to correct it!

When students in class expect me (the defacto 'if in doubt, follow X' dancer) to remember everything for them. I'm not talking about simple class combos either. I mean stuff that I shouldn't even be expected to know. For example; we had a cover teacher and someone asked me where they should be stood in the recital dance. I DON'T KNOW MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED WHEN THE TEACHER TOLD YOU LAST WEEK!!!!! I have 12 dances to remember, my priority is knowing my steps and spacing for those dances. If you aren't one of the people I'm stood next to in said dance, then no I don't know YOUR spacing all the way at the other side of the stage. (Sorry, really needed to get that off my chest... Can you tell it's less than a month until show time and this has happened more than once this week?)

Adult beginner here. People not being able to space out properly. It's not rocket science, you don't need detailed instructions to know that you don't want to stand that close to a person. Worst part is, I'll move to make sure I have enough space and people just move even closer. It's so annoying and the teacher always have to spread some people out.

It always baffles me how people just stand behind me, a tall person with long legs, and expect me not to fully extend my leg back. It really isn't a difficult concept.

Also, that one woman with knee-length hair that she doesn't tie. We all get it, your hair is gorgeous but FFS, braid it or something, don't keep it loose. No one expects you to wear a tight bun but your hair is a hazard. Tie it.

When people all huddle in the corner or in the back of the room.

when we work across the floor in my class, people never understand how to line up and/or wait for their group to go. i always have someone crashing into me during turns because they’re starting RIGHT UP AGAINST ME for some reason. and turns are hectic in general in an adult beginner class so we need all the space we can get!! 😭

Ugh number 1 is one of my biggest pet peeve. Why are you teaching class if you can’t count? Who is hiring these people.

Some other ones: - when you pay for class because the schedule says teacher A will be teaching there but you show up and teacher B is substituting without warning (teacher B is the one who can’t count).

• anyone who treats adult classes as “less serious” than the children’s/teen classes offered at the school. Like, if you think you’re too good to teach this class move over and I’ll teach it. (side story one time I was substituting a beginner adult class at a studio and the lyrical teacher was like “oh it’s just the adults it will be easy” as if the adults aren’t the hardest class to teach because they can smell BS and so I have to be super technically correct, organized, and clear.)

• people who complain! Like a little joke here and there might be fine but people who are constantly complaining to the teacher 😬😬😬 if you don’t want to be here you can leave! This is an adult class you aren’t forced to be here. It’s just so disrespectful to everyone.

-I’m lucky that some of my studios teen classes are open to everyone, more or less, but it really bothers me when adults drop into these classes not properly dressed for ballet. Onetime we had a demo class with an audience and another adult student dropped in, LATE, in sweats and a t-shirt. It’s just so distracting and rude. Everyone else has been asked to remove all their warmups before barre and this lady just did the whole class in sweats and a t-shirt… if you’re an adult whose dropping into a academy class why wouldn’t you want to be on your best/most respectful behaviour

Idk about cranky but this happened yesterday and I was just shocked - new student next to me on her third class ever kept fully sitting down cross legged on the floor between combinations. Like that's your business but i've just never seen that before! No one else is sitting!

This was an improvement though because she was actually wearing activewear this time - first time she showed up late in a baseball hat, polo, and work pants and the second time she showed up halfway through barre and ran across the (fairly large) room in a sundress with hair down. I'm just happy that she got the idea and moved up on the barre when I moved towards her so I wasn't kicking the corner (there were several empty barres between her and the next person). None of this is in judgement, I am very friendly to everyone new, everyone forgets hair ties sometimes, just... wow! I got to see something novel.

When dancers do ~more~ than the combo requires but they are not at the level to be doing so… I’ve seen this in the adult pointe classes I attend. Teacher gives a combo at the barre and some people just REALLY want to do it away. I would be so embarrassed if the instructor had to tell me to go back to the barre 3 times.

when people ask a question that the teacher has JUST answered or explained, and it’s obvious that person wasn’t paying attention!!

I cannot stand teachers who fail to enforce ballet norms, like a student who stands too close to another student in the center or students who don't listen to grouping directions. It's their job to tell unaware students how to behave. I also hate when my teacher has a sub who has not taught and has no understanding of how how to create combinations or how to count. And finally, I dislike when teachers skip movements; I don't care if your class hates frappes, they need to be done.

Adult learner here. I HATE it when the teacher gets carried away and chats with the class instead of teaching OR another student engages the teacher in something else completely while everyone else just waits for them to finish. Like, we only have an hour, it goes by so fast, stop wasting our precious time - talk at the end. The time is for dancing!

This shouldn’t give me as much internal anger as it does, however when you’re just alone practising. Enjoying your time and trying to reach perfection! And a teacher cuts you off mid way through just to complain you broke ‘the dress code’! I am sorry you can see the tight seams, I am alone practising it’s a one off I am sorry but no! Don’t shout and shout at me and give me detention for it!

Spinning and turns before bar and warm up! It’s so dangerous! Or when they bend their metatarsals and stand on them! It’s like come on guys you’re going to ruin your dance career! Are you trying to injure yourself! 😤😵‍💫👀

When people are talking in line while going across the floor.

Teachers and especially substitute teachers who explain combinations haphazardly and only semi-chronological. I get that when you chime in for another teacher last minute that you might have to make them up as you go or correct some parts of the combo while marking. But as an adult beginner without second nature arm and leg coordination it’s so hard to follow.

Being late and immediately heading for the front spot at the barre. 

And the last one is kind of specific. The only classes available to me are one hour classes but the teacher there is great and tries to make the most out of the limited time we have. On the last exercise across the floor we kind of have to hurry to also do it left. But there are these two maybe three people who always line up for another round on the right blocking more timid dancers from joining their group of 3 or making the teacher continue the music while all other students are patiently waiting on the other side of the room.

1. When the teacher does not seem to have a plan on which music goes with which combination and they are coming up with the next combination on the fly.

2. Or they keep saying a certain body part hurts each week, this week, my calf hurts and the next week, their ankle and the next week something else.

3. Lastly the teachers who do not take adult students seriously… we are all there to learn and came all the way here for you to ignore us.

The atmosphere in open pro or pro-ish classes is often suffocating. Like why do you feel the need to imbuse the air with your bitchiness. 

In addition to what has been said, underprepared teachers piss me off.  They have no idea what music are in their Playlist, how long they are, what music to use for what exercise, they can barely count them. And then complain they have no music for their jumping exercise like this is you job! 

Also similarly, teachers who do not plan which foot goes in front and correct as they go because they realise the right foot is back in front at the end. 

Teachers who visualize the exercise in their heads and then show it and of course it is way too fast to physically actually do. 

Teachers who don't pay attention to connecting steps and weight balance and then wonder why the less experienced half of the class always screws up the exercise.

Excruciatingly slow petit allegro. Often from women teachers, older or injured who are scared of it themselves. Socks the fun out of it and tires muscles for no reason. Petit allegro is not about powering through, it is about rebounding and precision and cardio.

people playing on their phones (in an adult class)
people who have no business being on pointe turning up to do beginner classes on pointe
this one dude who keeps mansplaining to me how my leg should be higher in retire when it won't go higher at the moment because it is injured
people who want to skip adage or petit allegro because they're "hard"

when small children have used the studio previously and the floor is...sticky
teachers who demonstrate at the level *they* can do in a class where half the people are total beginners, or who demonstrate super slow but then don't mark the combination with music

How no one ever wants to be in the “front.” There’s a mirror! There’s no front! Everyone can see you! Just spread out and use up the space! It upsets me into using way too many exclamation points!

One woman in my class is clearly more advanced than most of us (fine, whatever) but she ALWAYS has to stand in the same spot in the front even when the teacher says to switch lines. She often shows up late and acts super aloof and is always doing super obnoxious “stretches” when the teacher is demonstrating, or she’ll go to the bathroom in the middle of centre practice then show up half way through an exercise, barge in front again, then not know the combo since she WASNT THERE. Sometimes she’ll just leave the barre to do her own thing???? It’s super distracting sometimes. I don’t care if you’re more advanced than the rest of us, please have more respect for the teacher and the rest of us who are trying to concentrate.

When the parents/grandparents linger while picking up their kids. Just pick them up and get out, I want to start my class already. No I don’t care how the potatoes turned out today

adult dancer here - when one student needs to nitpick everything first before the teacher gets a chance to explain it. Then teacher gets annoyed or says “hold on, let’s go over x first” and they don’t get the hint.

I had a few during class this week. 

I take absolute beginners classes in addition to my intermediate classes to work on technique. I am an experienced student and was nice enough to go to the opposite side of the barre to let a completely-new-to-ballet student take the barre so she can look at the teacher, since I already know the combinations. But these two girls at the barre in front of me kept chatting to each other and had no spatial awareness and kept bumping into me because they kept hugging each other during exercises despite the teacher telling everyone to have spatial awareness and look at your surroundings 😡

And in another class, there’s a girl who is clearly supposed to take absolute beginners classes since it’s obvious she hasn’t had ballet classes before, but she took intermediate instead and for some reason, she keep staring at me. Just stares, even before class starts and we’re all waiting for the instructor. It honestly kind of freaks me out. If she was looking at me for combinations during class because she doesn’t know what we’re doing, that’s fine…..but I’d appreciate it if she wasn’t staring so intensely. 

During an absolute beginners class, my teacher is having me do pointe work at the barre. I heard a very loud phone camera shutter click when I stood up in my pointe shoes, and sure enough, a girl’s phone camera was angled towards me. For the record, I wasn’t even at any place that would have begged for attention. I was literally in my own little corner with very low visibility to the rest of the class since that’s what the teacher wanted so she would optimize correcting one student on pointe and the rest of the class. 

Spatial awareness. If you’re not going to travel move to the back.

The third one for sure and when people talk too much that time could be spent dancing

People who feel so entitled that they subtly (or not so subtly) force someone to move out of “their spot”

There was a girl in my class who had very smelly shoes. The few who were around her were always hit by a nasty pong. She was a full time dance student in an arts school who did additional classes in the evenings so we get that she uses her shoes a lot. Wished she alternated her shoes and cleaned them though. Another student- professional contemporary dancer - had waist length hair which she tied in a long ponytail and never ever bunned up. Sigh when they were both in class, it was hard to avoid both. Either suffer the odour or risk getting hit by a ponytail. I went for the latter.

I must say this is the kind of thread which, reading some of the comments, makes you not want to try ballet for the first time.

It sounds like the best classes should be ones which are structured as a series of successive lessons, like a school semester, so everyone starts at the same skill level and progresses at roughly the same rate.

"Drop in whenever"-classes on the other hand, while convenient for busy adults, are a recipe for all the complaints in this thread. The under-classed showoffs and the over-classed noobs should never be in the same room. 

I just posted about this in the adult ballet dancers sub! If any of you aren't subbed there yet and it applies, feel free to chime in there too link to post 

If someone comes after degages they should not be permitted in. It’s simply not safe.

Classmates who DO NOT KNOW where to put their bodies after a diagonal combination and screw up the flow. Why do a bunch of 8 year olds know how to do this but the grown ass women in my class don’t?

1. That adult dancer with a know-it-all attitude who gives unsolicited advice to other students in class in front of the teacher, instead of the teacher (like please, why aren’t you a professional then?🙄 Just leave the teaching to the teacher)
2. Gatekeeping of pointe for adults -adults have different timelines/ development/ strength levels from kids. Stop telling adults they aren’t ready till 10 years later just because you took that amount of time to get onto pointe as a child. 🙄 BUT also adults who have no business being on pointe and just doing it for social media (usually they attend 1/2 classes, snap some posey pics and never come back again lol)
3. 4th position side stretch away from the barre (?) feels so weird

thanks for reading this rant

The instructor stops to get them caught up??? That’s like rule one of class etiquette. If you are late, warm up and stretch on your own off to the side until you can join the next combo. They may have had a good reason to be late but thats just annoying that they’re interrupting the whole class.

Side note: I’m glad these are real pet peeves instead of pointing out personal style differences with tights and shoes etc. Because I’ve seen some nasty posts on YouTube and insta that are just picking on people.

Being at the front of the line for across the floors and then not going. Even worse when you ask them if they’re going to go and they’re just like “oh, no :)” and just stand there. It’s fine to not be ready, just go to the back of the line!!

Some ppl with no spacial awareness that jumps into everyone.

We have a guy I suspect he Is autistic., he would stand in the middle doing random stuff when everyone is doing diagonal. He will run into other ppl. We had to watch where he goes cuz he is a big guys and do the full motion of whatever and you never know which direction he will go and if he hits you, it’s on you.

Idk why he is still there cuz it seem like he is also on the wrong lvl.

I went to an open class where the teacher made us start with our right hand on the barre and I hated it soooo much.

I don't like it when teachers skip tendus in center because I don't feel like I've gotten my bearings.

When going across the floor, people who go first and loop around and go again with the last group, it drives me INSANE.

When someone takes your barre spot in a class where spots are essentially established already. If it's a new student who doesn't know, I get it and it's fine, but when we've all had the same spots for months? No.

1. When people don't position themselves properly at barre. We have portable barres and some people would rather get kicked in the face during grand battements than give up their spot at the front of the barre.
2. When people walk off during across the floor if they mess up or something. At least have some pride and finish even if you did mess up.

1 pet peeve is when class is too short (60 mins or less) and the teacher only gives like 4 combos at the barre and then the rest of class is very basic across the floor steps.

This was the only class in my small town that was available for adults for years.

I recruited some students from it who wanted to improve and learn more ballet and found a very good studio owner to do a 90 minute class once a week!

She’s not a ballet enthusiast but she has degrees in dance and loves teaching. She puts a lot of thought and research into her classes and they are fantastic!

2 Gossiping/snarky comments/ assumptions

I never had this when I took classes in a big city. The ladies and the teacher of the aforementioned class just think I’m weird and I can clearly tell that they dislike me at times. It’s weird sometimes they are nice and kind and others they are clearly laughing at me or go and talk about me out loud so I can hear.

Some of the reasons…

I want to improve my turnout and the teacher says it’s “stupid and dangerous”

I never talk back or say anything to her that could be seen as disrespectful. I take all corrections seriously and never ever correct the other students. I also am very careful never to correct the teacher or question her.

My private coach/mentor I see weekly on zoom and she is a former pro and a very well known She says my capacity is for 180 flat turnout and Functional I’m about 160 to 170. So my coach says each class I take I should try to get 1% more if possible but never to strain and we study anatomy and mechanics.

Also I am weird cause I wear leotards and tights. I adore dancewear. I’ve gotten used to it though and they have gotten used to me.

I get comments if I accidentally do a double pirouette for example in a combination.

Like I apologized since the teacher could see it and she gets mad about stuff like that. In my mind I was worried she was seeing me as being non compliant to her choreography. I just said “oh sorry!” Didn’t mention what I did but the other 3 students often watch me to mirror the combinations. One lady moves around on the barre so I am always visible so she can copy me.

One of the ladies who dislikes me the most bit also tries to be my friend so it’s very confusing went on and on and said that she “ Would be doing doubles on ‘accident’ all the time if I could hahahaha! I would want to show off to everyone! Look what I can do! ”

Today she messaged me to say she did a double and was so excited so I think maybe she just really wants to be better at turns but it made me so uncomfortable.

Also I love corrections and the teacher usually gives a few general ones and directed ones to the students. Now she always praises the other students but never ever compliments me, like I don’t think I have had a single one which is 100% okay just I can tell she doesn’t like me. I get it she also probably thinks I don’t need compliments and the other students do to stay motivated etc.

She does make sure to give me corrections in class and occasionally they really sting, like basically she says stuff like “oh puuuuhleasase you don’t need to hop in that pirouette that is just for show. You just need to decide not to hop. So dramatic hahah. It’s not you are not gonna fall 😒 you would fall so stop hopping” or “you don’t need to whack your leg up that high at the end of an arabesque! That was more like a battlement than a subtle lift to maintain your balance so dramatic this isn’t a competition hahaha”

It sucks im sensitive lol.

Also when I get even the slightest correction the student who dislikes me the most smiles and laughs and covers her mouth with her hand.

I haven’t been in a while I’ve been sick and I plan to go back but I’m not super excited.

I’m slowly gaining their trust I guess? I have adhd and I have strange facial expressions if I don’t try and smile lots and focus on my expressions I often look annoyed or bored or angry. It’s really just my face 🙈

I’m tired though of being in such a tiny class where I’m the most experienced dancer ( not great by any means) and I am an object of curiousity and regarded as a snob and show off for wearing dance wear and enjoying dance

The studio I dance in normally has like a bunch of exercise balls in one of the corners we do traveling floor work from. It sucks.

We have a girl who don’t travel at all. The classic tomber pas de bourré pirouette from 4th, she advance on the tomber and would go backward during pas de bourré so she stands in the same spot she start. And she loves to stand in front.

Same for piqué arabesque chassé grand jeté that turn. It’s always a puzzle trying to go on another direction and not run into her

Simple one here.

When people just can’t listen. Like don’t ask me every 5 seconds what the variation is please

1. Adults dancing up in advanced grades; because the teacher is too nice to refuse, and they don’t understand the technique to realise that they’re not ready to do it. These people tend to waste a lot of time asking for personal corrections.

2. Adults being allowed to join the pointe class after only one or two years. Their technique is below par, but they have no idea as they don’t understand correct technique and think they’re ready. I suppose the teacher should prevent this.

3. One student arrives very late every single week and interrupts the class.

4. The stretching part of the class - one woman sighs and eye rolls if you do splits or something like that and others will be ultra competitive.

When a classmate is unable to respect personal space and unable to either stand at the barre leaving even space in each side. Good thing our teacher doesn’t miss anything and makes her immediately move and position herself correctly, but it’s time wasted and shouldn’t be necessary, same as in the centre! When a classmate is unable to just observe when our teacher is showing us/demonstrating something and insists in doing it at the same time as the teacher. VERY annoying and this really makes our teacher angry. She catches anyone doing this, she stops, turns the music off, tells her to OBSERVE ONLY, and restarts from the beginning (and believe it or not, sometimes she needs to do it again because the student won’t stay still PAYING attention). That makes her so angry and she’s right, big waste of time. The teacher does it, we pay attention and then it’s time for us to do it ourselves while she observes us. Not rocket science but some people maybe too slow to understand.

When someone takes my spot in center. I realize people may want to move closer to the front some days but steal someone else's spot, front left corner is the best spot and it's mine lol