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.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“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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