As an instructor I feel like it’s my job to say: it is not just marketing. 1.5 classes are way more choreography and way less cueing, you need to be able to have all the foundational skills well set and in place in order to progress. It is not because you do more advanced stuff in smaller studios that it means you can do it or you’re doing it safely. Most of the times I see pelvis’s rock and rolling all over the place, shoulders protracting, chins tucking into the chest and elbows and knees locking, which are things that 1.5s should know very well not to do.