Wacky Wednesday Frowning Arches
Although it may seem so, I am not going to do a blog parody
of McDonald’s. Instead, the arches I’m talking about are not golden, but tense.
That’s right.
When a dancer (or anyone else, for that matter), tenses the
muscles of the foot when standing, the arch “frowns”, creating an extreme
half-circle shape. The toes grip the floor, and the ankles tense as well. Not
good.
As I have said before, the feet on the floor should
be relaxed, not tense. If they are
not relaxed, the poor feet grimace and frown. Poor, poor feet. Ouch!
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #7xx:
“Avoid frowning arches.”
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― Lou Holtz
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