Technical Tuesday Safety Pin
Allowing the rib cage to open up and stick out is a common
problem for dancers. It usually results from arching the back and allowing the
abdominal muscles to take the day off. Often a reminder to “use the abdominals”
or “hold your core” is all it takes for the student’s posture to come back into
alignment.
But sometimes those pesky lower ribs persist in poking out,
which keeps the back arched. To help with this, imagine a giant safety pin, and
picture what it would be like to take your leotard or tee shirt and gather it
together with the pin parallel to the floor, and in front of the lower ribs. Now, imagine doing
that with the rib cage itself (using a painless safety pin, of course).
Gathering each side of the lower rib cage together like
gathering a leotard allows the rib cage to fall in place – centered over the
pelvis. It also prevents the arching of the back.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #1hh:
“Imagine a giant
safety pine keeping your lower ribs together.”
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