Fun Friday Pick It Up
It’s Friday! And time for another image using a prop. Today
it is the ever popular and readily available towel. I’ve blogged about towels
before, and they are an every-ready source for lots of ideas, as well as their
intended utilitarian usage.
When a dancer rises to pointe or demi-pointe in passé, or
any other position that involves standing on one leg, the body weight must
arrange itself in a balanced manner around the body’s central axis – the center
“fireman’s pole”. I’ve blogged before
about how this arrangement is different in each position, but for passé and
similar positions, the following image works well.
Drop or place a towel on the floor (flat and open), and then
pick it up by lifting it in the center. Notice how all the folds instantly arrange
themselves around the towel’s invisible central pole. This is what needs to
happen in a relevé before a pirouette, for example. The body weight must shift
to arrange itself around the dancer’s central axis.
So on this Fun Friday, do a passé and imagine yourself as a
towel being lifted off the floor.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #20k:
“Pick up a dropped towel in the center to show how the weight of the
body should fall around a central axis.”
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“The unhappiest
people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people
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― C. JoyBell C.
― C. JoyBell C.
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