Terrific Tuesday Continuous
By now you know that a plié is a movement, not a position,
and that a grand plié has four parts. Both are Ballet Secrets I have blogged about before. This brings us to
another important plié concept that is related to the first two: a plié must be continuous.
That’s right, a plié doesn’t hesitate, pause, or, stop
anywhere along the line. It is like a train or an airplane that is nonstop – it
keeps on moving. This may sound easy, but it is all too common to see a dancer
“sitting” at the bottom of a grand plié, or pausing at the bottom of a demi
-plié. This makes it extraordinarily difficult to regenerate the energy needed
to lift out of a halted plié.
So imagine your pliés as nonstop flights, and don’t fall out
of the sky.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #2n:
“A plié is continuous,
it never stops.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“Thankfully, dreams can change. If
we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys
and princesses.”
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