Mad Monday Chalk
I’ve blogged before about the path from fifth position to passé: Ballet
Secret #3n: Imagine there is a wide line on your tights: the path to passé; and Ballet Secret #7: Imagine a line drawn
on the tights that the foot must follow when traveling from fifth position to
passé or retiré.”
Okay. Now we have the pathway established, but how do we keep
the foot on the “road”? Here’s how: Imagine the big toe as a long, fat piece of chalk
and draw a line on the “road” up the
tights to the knee. In fact, if one is doing barre in a dusty theatre or
studio, often the path up the tights can actually be seen!
All of these ideas should ideas help the problem of “floating passés”
– ones that seem to hover near the supporting leg but never touch it.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #18k:
“Imagine the big toe as a piece of chalk and draw a line up the tights from
fifth position to passé.
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
““A path is a prior interpretation of the
best way to traverse a landscape.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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