Monday Musings and Linking Steps
The linking steps in ballet are sometimes critically underemphasized. Yet these steps are the glue that holds
everything together, plus – and this
is important – linking steps provide a large part of the “flow” that makes a
dancer lovely to watch. When these steps
are beautifully executed, they melt into the overall series of steps and poses,
effectively becoming almost invisible.
The basic linking steps include: glissade, chassé, temps lié, tombé, pas de bourrée,
failli, piqué, etc. Steps like balancés
or waltz turns are also used to link steps and/or poses together. Often these steps are done in combination
with each other, like tombé pas de bourrée. Plié – ballet’s most important movement - is an
integral part of these in-between steps.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #13c:
“Linking steps provide
the glue that holds everything together and makes the choreography flow.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is
progress; working together is success.”
-
Henry Ford
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