Wild Wednesday Wobbles
Dancers don’t wobble.
At least, they try not to wobble.
There are innumerable places where wobbling is a constant threat, so a
number of tools in a dancer’s tool chest need to be dedicated to stamping out
wobbling.
One of the most problematic areas for wobbles is when the
dancer is wearing pointe shoes and the bottoms of the feet are in full contact
with the floor. Wobbles happen here due
to the structure of the pointe shoe itself.
This is when remembering to allow the foot the melt into the floor is
important. (See previous blog: http://balletwebb.blogspot.com/2014/04/fun-friday-and-feet.html ).
But the most important thing to think about is this: “Have the majority of the body’s weight over
the ball of the foot, not the heel”.
The next handy hint to prevent wobbles is one that helps
whenever a dancer is balancing on one leg (which is, of course, most of the
time). Place the body over the supporting
leg so that the belly button is aligned over the foot. See previous blogs: http://balletwebb.blogspot.com/2013/09/balancing-on-one-leg.html
,
and http://balletwebb.blogspot.com/2014/03/wild-wednesday-statute-15.html.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Statutes:
Statute #19:
“There are no wobbles in ballet.”
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