Wonderful Wednesday Stillness
A dancer’s torso should be an area of stillness. Except
during cambres or port de bras, the torso doesn’t twist, bend, angle, crunch,
etc. Keeping the torso still and square and in one piece is essential for stability.
Watch any videos of accomplished dancers and notice what the
torso does or doesn’t do. Weird, isn’t
it? Almost no movement at all. Most of
the time the torso (see my blog on cereal boxes) is completely still and solid.
However, this stillness is really only an outward appearance. A quiet torso hides the effort required by
the dancer to keep it still. In other
words, torso stillness requires a solid core strength and a conscious effort by
the dancer to keep the muscles (particularly the abdominal ones) engaged at all
times to prevent the aforementioned twisting, crunching or bending.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #1jj:
“The torso is an area of stillness, except in port de bras or cambres.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“Learning
how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness
becomes a radiance.”
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