We mostly use all three modalities but one or two may be dominant so I try to find ways to present class material using a mix.
For the visual (my dominant preference) I describe movement with other visual imagery, demonstrate with my own body, video demonstration and feedback, get you to draw pictures.
For the auditory, I use music and my voice to cue timing, information, qualities, I describe what I'm doing, I ask for questions, I encourage you to feedback with each other.
For the kinaesthetic, it is about getting into the movement material and learning it by doing. This is why I sometimes give a scan of the material by demonstrating a complete phrase before breaking it down. I also incorporate various tactile exercises, often in partners, so that physical information is transferred by touch and sensation.
Last week I asked you to draw one of the sequences, to graphically notate it. You were creating a visual map to help you learn the spatial pattern, while also attending to listening and following the timing/accents with the music in real time, and physically drawing the tactile qualities on the piece of paper.
Here's some examples placed next to each other.
It was a strategy for learning a phrase from a range of angles.
I would encourage you look at different strategies for your own learning...try drawing or notating a phrase, video it in class for playback and rehearsal outside of class time, work with a partner on a phrase and use touch to indicate an impulse for or direction of the movement...
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