Super Saturday Coaxing Statute

Super Saturday Coaxing Statute 

Dancers are familiar with the phrase “follow the arms”, which is intended to remind them to move their head when they move their arms. Well, here is another one: imagine the arms coaxing the legs into position.

So often the arms and legs appear disjointed and separate from one another. Instead, they should move together in some kind of synchronized fashion, and the best way to think about this is that the arms “coax” the legs into position.

Think of bringing the leg up to passé from fifth position. The arms customarily move from fifth en bas to fifth en avant and this movement makes it appears that the arms pull (coax) the leg upward into position. This is an obvious example, but there are many others.

How many can you think of?

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:

Ballet Statute #30  

“Think of the arms coaxing the legs into position.”

Link of the Day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4aLIeg2Mik

Quote of the Day:

“Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.”
- Mark Twain

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