Marvelous Monday Elevator Shaft
Here we go again with yet another elevator image. You will remember Ballet Secret #1m:
Imagine the navel (belly button)is an elevator “up” button. Press in it and hold when you want to go up; and
Ballet Secret #12a: Press the
elevator button (belly button/abdominals) in to facilitate a gentle landing
from a grand battement. But today’s image is most closely related to Ballet Secret #2m: Plié like your body
is an elevator in a shaft.
Let’s get specific. Imagine that the pelvis is the elevator
car itself. This car is nice and level and square and the occupants don’t get
thrown around during the ride up or down. That’s exactly how the pelvis should
work during plies, with no tipping or tucking or rocking around. Just a simple,
straight up and down ride with no turbulence.
So imagine the pelvis as an elevator car filled with people who wish to remain standing upright.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #2t:
“ Imagine your
pelvis as an elevator car going evenly up and down in a shaft during pliés.”
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“Life's under no obligation to give us
what we expect.”
― Margaret Mitchell
― Margaret Mitchell
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