Wild Wednesday Two
Spools
Good posture for ballet
requires that the pelvis and the rib cage stay aligned with each other – most of the time. One of the best ways
to visualize this is to imagine two spools, like the old wooden ones sewing
thread is wound on. Teachers can use two real spools as a visual aid to
demonstrate this concept.
One spool represents the
rib cage, the other one represents the pelvis. These two spools must be placed
so the holes are accurately lined up.
When a dancer is simply
standing, this isn’t much of a problem (hopefully). But in positions like
attitude devant, there is often a tendency for the ribs to poke forward,
destroying the alignment of the spools. Scary.
Of course there are
times when the spools cannot and should not be aligned, like arabesque, etc.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret # 1zzz:
“Good
posture should include two aligned spools.”
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