Tuesday Glissades
Glissade is one of the first steps a dancer learns in the
center, and it is one of the most critical of the linking steps. It utilizes the energy pattern I call an
under-circle that I have blogged about before:
http://balletwebb.blogspot.com/2013/12/terrific-tuesday-and-temps-lie.html.
A glissade moves from one foot to one foot. This is very similar to the jump sissone that
moves from two feet to one foot.
Designing a combination using only glissades and sissones can provide a
challenge for an advanced dancer!
There is a lift, or breath, in the body in fifth position
(the up to go down to go up) that precedes the initiating plié; then the foot
extends and the dancer pushes off from the supporting foot, the weight
transfers to the leading foot using the feeling of the under circle.
In a glissade, the dancer must remember to extend the legs
fully and travel.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #13i:
“A glissade moves from one foot to one foot with an under-circle
energy.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“Travel
and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.”
-
Seneca
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