Fun Friday Formula for Beats
You will remember
Ballet Secret #15dd: All
beats involve both legs and have a rebound. Today I’m talking about how all
beats follow a formula. Other steps do too, and I’ve done blogs before about
formulas and how useful they are for dancers.
Beats must follow an angular, not
circular, path, and in order to beat effectively, the legs must open slightly
before the beat occurs. It’s the same principle as clapping your hands: you can’t
clap hands that are already together – they must open before they can clap.
Therefore, the formula for beats is
this: up, open, beat, open, finish.
The beat rebounds (see Ballet Secret #15dd
above), and the finish can be in many different places, but the important thing
is that the feet must come apart slightly
in the air for the beat to happen.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #15vv:
“All beats follow a formula.”
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