Wacky Wednesday Lines
Today’s thoughts come
from the book of ballet classroom etiquette. There isn’t such a book (that I know of),
but it comes from there nonetheless.
In the center, dancers
are usually taught to stand in neat lines, with the second line and subsequent
lines arranging themselves in the “windows” or spaces between the dancers in
the line in front of them. This is so everyone can see the teacher and the
teacher can see them.
But why lines? Why not
just a random assemblage of bodies? The first reason – see previous paragraph.
Another reason is to provide the necessary safe bubble of space around each
dancer so no one collides with anyone else. Yet another reason is that it
prepares dancers for corps de ballet work where they have to be meticulously in
line with one another.
Deep breath. Then, another reason is so smaller groups of
dancers can easily and efficiently be formed: “The first group will be the
first two lines…etc”.
There you have it. The reasons
dancers dance in lines in the center.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Dance History Factoid # 94
“Dancers
stand in lines in the center for several reasons.”
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