Fun Friday Formulas
Learning combinations of steps can be confusing, especially
for beginning dancers. Even a simple set of steps can appear complex and daunting.
In ballet, learning a single step is difficult enough and dancers spend years
honing each step. But when these steps are first combined with other, similarly
challenging steps, the process goes to a whole new level of confusion.
When I work with older beginners or adult beginners
particularly, I like to create formulas for common step combinations. For
example, a grand allegro of sauté, faille,
glissade, saut de chat becomes: step-hop, step-through, run, run, leap. These are familiar terms and they
help make a complex-looking group of steps become clear. It creates a
pattern students can follow so they can then "sew" the actual steps together into the
correct sequence.
Almost any series of steps can have a fun formula.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #22g:
“ Fun formulas help beginners learn dance combinations.”
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