Technical Tuesday More Turn-out
Turn-out is constant. I’ve blogged about this several times.
But it is so easy to forget all about it when the mind is engaged on all the
other things a dancer has to concentrate on during class. Wouldn’t it be nice
if we had a magic turn-out button that switched on and off as needed? We could
just push it on and forget it – the turn-out would rotate endlessly until we
switched it off.
Well, since there isn’t a button, here is the next best
thing: the brain. Visualize the
rotation in the hip socket as a gentle, but continuous process, like a CD in a player, or
(for those of you old enough to remember), a record moving on a turntable. If
the rotation of the CD stops, so does the music.
And we all know what happens to a dancer when the rotation (turn-out)
stops.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #3m:
“Imagine turn out in each hip socket as a constantly rotating CD in a
player, or a record on a turntable.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“It does not matter how slowly you go as
long as you do not stop.”
-
Confucius
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