Fun Friday Trust
Trust is important in ballet. Trusting your partner in a pas
de deux, trusting your fellow dancers in a piece of choreography, and trusting
your instructors to guide you. But there is one area where dancers seem to have
a difficult time – they have “trust issues”.
This is the area of pirouette preparation. That’s right.
Those preliminary positions and movements that happen before the turn. Ballet technique works. A correct preparation
works, too. So often dancers wind up and throw themselves into a turn only to
crash and burn because of too much force and poor alignment. This is not how to
create a successful turn.
It’s all about the
preparation. Trust it. Use a good plié, a good relevé, and maintain good
alignment. That’s all it takes. No extras, no winding up, no throwing the
shoulders or torso around. Apply a good preparation and then just spot and enjoy
the ride.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #14aa:
“Trust the preparation.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
““Our life is frittered away by detail.
Simplify, simplify.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings
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