This article gives some great advice on what to take into consideration when looking for a dance teacher. Ceech has been in the Bay Area street dance scene for over 15 years; winning countless competitions in groups such as Mindtricks and DS Players while training / mentoring many funk stylists and hip hop dancers along the way.

Below is a small excerpt from the blog:

Before trying to ask the question of how to I find a good dance teacher, ask yourself what kind of a student you want to be first. Do you want to learn a routine? If there is a specific routine that you want to learn, then seek out the teacher that has mastered that routine and mastered teaching that routine. In specific cases such as performing for a specific show, and your dance team is performing a specific routine, you will need to drill the routine many times. If you are a person starting out your dance journey, this is one option to start. You can learn by copying a specific set of choreographed moves, memorize it and make your body move to this sequence of counts. This would be the analogy of feeding yourself for a day. This one specific set of moves is the fish that will feed you for the day.
Maybe you want to learn to feed yourself for a lifetime. You must learn from a teacher that will teach more than just specific choreographed moves. You will need to learn the tools to create your own dance. These tools are the fundamentals of dance.

Be sure to read the rest of the article on Ceech’s blog here:
http://www.nustudios.com/wp1/how-do-i-find-a-dance-teacher-instructor/