Wacky Wednesday Bananas
I’ve blogged a lot about the sensation of two-way (or more)
directions of energy, and how important this sensation is for successful dance
technique. Yesterday I discovered a new image, courtesy of RPM https://www.ballet4everybody.com/,
to help students “find” the feeling.
Dancers are always admonished “Pull up!” And what usually
happens is that they do just that, and everything
pulls up including the shoulders and even the eyebrows. Scary. What they should
feel "pulling up" is the skeleton. The muscles, etc., should lengthen downward (simultaneously). You will
recognize this as the equal and opposite energy pathways that I have talked
about many times before.
But to help visualize this, imagine peeling a banana. The
banana itself is the skeletal system, and the peel represents the musculature.
Feel the sensation of the peel going downward
and the banana going upward.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #16q:
“Imagine peeling a banana to feel two-way energy.”
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