Terrific Tuesday and Paint Buckets
Achieving and understanding the correct angling of the head
in ballet is critically important. Not
just for aesthetic reasons, but also as a counterweight to whatever position
the body is in. Previously I have
discussed how this angle is usually a one quarter turn of the head combined
with an incline.
One image that is successful for achieving this is the paint
bucket. Take, for example, the position
of croisé devant. If the dancer’s head
and body are in the correct place, someone standing in front of them could take
a paint brush dipped in white paint and draw a wide line from belly button to
the top of the head – and not get any
paint on the nose. Instead, the
paint would end up on the cheek.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #9c:
“If the head is angled correctly, there will be no paint on
the nose.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that
speaks.”
-Plutarch
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