Saturday Stuff and Yet another Statute
I love ballet. It is
so logical and extremely well designed.
It is all codified (written down), so anything can be looked up and
verified somewhere. So if you don’t
understand something a dance teacher says, you can look it up and/or Google it. Be warned, however, that there may be more
than one correct answer!
That brings me to today’s great statute. Everything
in ballet has a name and can be reversed.
Think about that the next time you can’t fall asleep. Try reversing any step (or combination of
steps) you can think of, and pretty soon you’ll be able to fall asleep. Some steps reverse more easily than others,
but the statute holds true. Everything
can be reversed.
Asking dancers to reverse a combination is often done at
auditions, so it is helpful to become skilled at being able to reverse things
immediately – even in the middle of a set of steps. It is also a fun challenge!
From the Big Beige Book of Ballet Statutes:
Statute #14:
“Everything in ballet
has a name and can be reversed.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived
forwards.”
-Soren Kierkegaard
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