Fun Friday Happy Landing
Happy Friday! Today let’s discuss piqués - those useful
steps that allow a dancer to transfer weight efficiently onto one leg, on
pointe or demi-pointe. The word “pique”
means to prick or stab and I have discussed this in previous blogs.
The usual problem in a piqué (for example, a piqué to
arabesque) is a failure to lift the body high enough. It is as though the
dancer is climbing up to the piqué from a long flight of basement stairs. This is particularly problematic if the dancer
is on pointe. That’s when the basement stairs get even longer and steeper.
Instead, imagine descending
onto a rooftop at the moment of the piqué, as though lowered from a
helicopter. The preparation for the
piqué is an under-circle (see previous blogs), but the actual piqué moment
comes from a high place – like an airplane.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #13l:
“Imagine landing from the top, not climbing from the basement in a
piqué.”
Link of the Day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3f0yGHFOpA
Quote
of the Day:
“The higher we are placed, the more
humbly we should walk.”
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