Technical Tuesday and Ice Cream Scoops
Arguably the most important area of the body in dance is the
center section of the torso: the
abdominals and the back. Sometimes I
refer to it as the “golden circle”.
To fully engage this area, a dancer must lengthen the spine,
then use the abdominals: “suck the stomach in”; “belly button to spine”,
etc. I tell my students that the
abdominal area should look like someone used an ice cream scoop to scoop out
the center. It would be one of those
nice, rounded ice cream scoops that produce such nice, rounded mounds of ice
cream.
“Scoop it!”
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #1t:
“The abdominal area
should look like someone used an ice cream scoop on it.”
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