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Monday, June 9, 2014

Monday Pull Apart


Monday Pull Apart
In the chapter on Props and Demos from The Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets comes this demo, designed to help dancers feel the outward energy needed when the arms are in à la seconde.
Enlist the aid of two students to be the “Pull People”, and one student volunteer to be the demonstrator.  The Volunteer stands in first or second position with the arms correctly shaped in à la seconde.

The Pull People come forward, and one stands on either side of the Volunteer.  They each take a wrist and pull gently outward and on a slightly forward trajectory.  This pull is strong enough to be felt by the Volunteer, but not so strong that the Volunteer can’t resist it.  The Volunteer must maintain the correct shape in the arms despite feeling the consistent pull from the Pull People.
This is the way the energy must be felt whenever the arms are in à la seconde.
 

From The Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:

Secret #20e 
 “Have a student on each side pull gently on the arms in à la seconde.”
 

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“No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.”

-Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

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