Marvelous Monday Home Plate
Ahhhh the joys of fifth position. It is the starting point
for great things, and the ending point for those great things. But although
most dancers do well with fifth position during barre, in the center this
position is often less than optimal.
I don’t mean that dancers should ever – ever – force their fifth position past “their best” fifth. But they
must be aware of it during all the combinations in the center. Fifth position
is, after all, home plate. Without
it, nothing works well. Without it, a dancer’s turn-out is compromised or
(gasp!) non-existent. And fifth position, as I have blogged about before, is a tool. It was created and developed over
centuries to be the amazing thing that it is: a position that delivers
strength, stability and finesse to everything else.
We could sell it with an 800 number!
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #3t:
“Fifth position is like home plate.”
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“The world is moving so fast these days
that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone
doing it.”
― Elbert Hubbard
― Elbert Hubbard
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