Fun Friday Numbers and Letters
So much of the time in ballet, the body (posture) needs to
be in a nice, straight line (slightly forward from the ankles, you will
remember). But this can be problematic. Too often the body ends up looking like
the number “3”, the letter “S”, or the leaning tower of Pisa. Ouch! Scary.
To combat this tendency, imagine your body as the number “1”,
or the letter “I” (or the small letter “i”, with your head being the dot). This
is particularly helpful for turns, but it works for everything requiring a
straight alignment of the body.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #1xx:
“Imagine yourself as a giant number "1", or the letter "I".”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“When you have mastered numbers, you will
in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading
books. You will be reading meanings.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois
― W.E.B. Du Bois
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