Friday Basketball Hoop
A wonderful student of mine said she thinks about making the
shape of a basketball hoop with her arms when they are in fifth en avant
(first). This is a great image and when teaching this arm position an instructor
could even throw some soft Nerf balls through the “hoop” to demonstrate
correctly shaped arms.
This concept
is important because a major problem is often a drooping elbow or two (and Ballet Statute # 18 states: “There is no drooping in ballet.”) If
the elbow droops, the position squashes inward (see
Ballet Statute #48: There is no
squashing in ballet) http://balletwebb.blogspot.com/2015/10/super-saturday-squash.html and there isn’t enough room between the dancer’s hands and
torso for a Nerf ball to pass through. Scary.
So try
shooting a few “hoops” in your next ballet class!
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #6hh:
“The arms in fifth en
avant (first)have the shape of a basketball hoop.”
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