Marvelous Monday Directions
The working leg is permitted to go to three basic places.
Except in rond de jambe or circular movements, these positions are absolute and
unchanging: front, side and back. I’ve blogged before about these three.
The most problematic one is the side position, or à la
seconde, because it is determined by the degree of turn-out a dancer has. Most
of the time, this spot is not directly, exactly, to the side. Instead, it is
slightly in front of the side seam on
the dancer’s leotard.
This past week one of my students gave me a new image for
this: the working foot in à la seconde is opposite
the arch of the standing foot. Violà! This works too.
“When you become a
teacher, by your pupils you’ll be taught.”
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret # 3v:
“In à la seconde, the leg is opposite the arch of the standing foot.”
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