Mad Monday
Seaweed
The fingers
are an often overlooked area in ballet technique. Students commonly consider
the hands and fingers as an afterthought – less important than the legs and
feet. Scary.
Everything is important. If the hands and
fingers are left to their own devices they become either stiff and immobile, or
loose and limp, hanging lifelessly at the end of the arm. Neither one is a
pretty picture.
Instead,
think of the fingers moving like seaweed in the ocean: with enough energy to
hold their shape, but enough relaxation to move and stretch freely.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret 6ddd#:
“Imagine the fingers moving like
seaweed.”
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“All that is
important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and
worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
― Martha Graham
― Martha Graham
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