Fun Friday Stars and Black Holes
Ah, those pesky abdominal muscles. They seem to have a mind
of their own – a lazy one. For such a critical area, this laziness is a huge
problem. The support of strong abdominal muscles helps everything in a dancer’s
posture, but particularly the spine and back. And without a strong torso,
everything else is going to fall apart.
There are many ways to think about “holding” or “engaging”
the abdominal muscles, but today I offer another one: Imagine a star over your
abdominal muscles, and then imagine this star collapsing into a black hole. For
those who are not interested in astronomy, a black hole occurs when a star
collapses and creates an area so massive that nothing can escape its gravitational pull.
This new image for using your abdominal muscles gives “suck your stomach in” a whole new level
of meaning.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #1ll:
“Imagine a star over your abdominal muscles and feel it collapse into a
black hole.”
Link of the Day:
Quote of the Day:
“This
is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and
whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of
heaven.”
― Rick Bragg
― Rick Bragg
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