Technical Tuesday Ab and
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Two anatomical terms
that are used to describe movement are abduction
and adduction. They are handy little
words to know.
Abduction
is any movement that goes away from
the midline of the body.
For example, a port de
bras where the arms go from fifth en bas (low fifth) upward to second, would be abduction. Moving the legs from
sixth position to first position would also be abduction.
Adduction
is movement of a body part toward the
body’s midline.
For example, if the arms
are in second and they are brought to first, this would be adduction.
Another, less intuitive example: if a dancer’s fingers are spread apart and then
brought together it would also be adduction.
In other words, I like to like of adduction as “adding” to the center of
the body.
Now you know!
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Anatomical Secret # 56
“Abduction goes away from the body’s
midline, adduction goes toward it.”
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