Mad Monday Milkshakes
Dance teachers try a variety of images to get students to understand
the strong feeling of lifting away from gravity. A common one is to imagine
drinking a thick milkshake through a straw, and use that amount of energy to
pull up.
I’m going to take it up a notch. Imagine that the milkshake
is made with chocolate chip ice
cream. If you have ever had the experience of getting a chip “stuck” in the
straw, you will remember how difficult it is to dislodge it so the milkshake
can flow again. This is the amount of
energy required to lift the hips away from the legs, and the body away from the
floor.
This image can also be used to imagine the energy the dancer
must send downwards – through and
beyond the floor.
So don’t just pull up. Pull up like drinking a thick
milkshake made with chocolate chip ice cream through a straw.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #1oo:
“ Imagine pulling up as strongly as trying to get a chocolate chip
milkshake through a straw.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“Without
ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.”
― Don Kardong
― Don Kardong
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