I'm going to chime in here: it's very common to be nervous. Heck, I was terrified of my teacher for the first six months that I was taking lessons from him, but I kept at it because he was the best teacher available to me. I've been taking lessons from him for nearly 7 years now, mostly studying Standard, but also a tiny amount of Latin, and now Smooth. What really helped me was getting it through my head that he was there to help me. I knew it intellectually, but really *getting* that made a difference. Try to listen for the compliments and not just the criticisms, and you'll start to get it too.

Good luck! What you're going through is completely normal!

I hate to hear this,
Your instructor should not be pushing you so hard right now regarding your technique, Once you get the steps you will then be able to focus on the rest.

Don't give up because you have seen nothing yet!
Dancing feet are happy feet :)

Enjoy

I think you have to concider what you want. Do you want to dance or do you want to have fun?
Once you figured that out you should take a close look at how your school works, do they focus on techique or on the fun side of dancing? (Here where I live that differs per school)

About your shyness, I think I know what you mean. I'm a pretty shy dude myself, always the quite one in the back, you probably know what I mean.
What you have to realise is that you are "just" (don't get that wrong please^_^) a student. And students make mistakes, it's as simple as that so don't feel bad about it.

The fact that your teacher corrects you often is in my opinion a good thing, that proves he wants some quality in his school. So if you hate to be corrected stay polite and say it to him, I'd bet he will leave you alone.

Now, I can't take away your shyness but I can tell you something what happened to me, very peculiar if you ask me but it's true^_^
Usually I'm nervous just before exams and tend to "freeze", same thing with my dance exams last year, but... Once I stood on the dancefloor to take the exam I realised that it was not that bad standing there and that nothing could go wrong because I knew what to do. I actually enjoyed standing there in the spotlights. And I danced like never before, got one of the best scores in my class and was selected to enter the bronze contest and got the second place.

What I'm trying to say is that you will do fine if you know your steps.
Hope I've been of help in some way^_^

You must fancy him if you feel like that. if so just go for it and enjoy You will become a better dancer with passion feelings ect

If you sont fancy him just forget it And dance he probably wont even notice your top heavy
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I can see the sexual tension between the two of you. One way to fix that is to just sleep with him and get it over with already.

I too have a very meticulous teacher. I've definitly had some tough lessons, but in the end, I feel good about it. I want to dance well! In a sense, I feel honored that my instructor respects me enough to ask for such fine details. If he were just expecting me to do the steps without any technique, styling, etc., then I think I would want to find another teacher. But as others have said, it is about what you want.

I totally hear you about getting nervous when dancing with your instructor...I definitly do! I have a lot of respect for him and care about what he thinks. That can't be a bad thing. Good luck, and happy dancing!