Fun Friday Bird’s Eye View
One of the absolutes in ballet technique is this: changing
the ligaments, tendons and muscles is relatively easy, but changing the bone
structure – the skeletal system – is almost impossible. Therefore, we must work with our bone structure, and not against it.
For good posture, most of the time the rib cage should be
aligned over the pelvis. This sounds simple enough, but it is all too easy to
allow the ribs to “poke out” and the spine to arch. This swayback posture is,
unfortunately, common – especially for beginning dancers.
To prevent this, and to maintain proper alignment, imagine
what a bird flying overhead would see if it had x-ray vision. Looking down on
the dancer’s skeleton the bird would be able to see completely through the rib
cage and the pelvis to the ground – if
the alignment is correct.
Perhaps we could utilize drones with x-ray cameras to check
and see if our posture is correct from high above!
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #1ii:
“Imagine a bird’s eye view of the skeleton.”
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― H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book
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