What is the place of traditional dance technique classes?
Your body has all of the tools to hone your technique. As you find your own movement vocabulary, your body will with repetition make those movements occur with more efficiency, power, and clarity. As energy flows through those movements it teaches your body how to allow that same energy to flow with greater ease. By allowing yourself to truly fall and using the energy that that creates, your body learns how to move more efficiently and thus with more power and clarity.
If you should choose to take a dance technique class, always keep in mind your own movement vocabulary and direct whatever you learn into the service of your movement not the choreographed movement of the class.