Wacky
Wednesday Cactus
We all know
there is no drooping in ballet (Ballet
Statute #18). Yet so often the arms and particularly the elbows continue to
droop. This happens often during pirouettes or jumps where the arms are in
fifth en avant (first). Not only do the elbows droop, but the whole arm
position then squashes inward. Scary.
To prevent
drooping and/or squashing arms in fifth en avant, imagine hugging a cactus. A
nice, prickly cactus. This will keep your arms and elbows at a safe distance,
and there will be no drooping or squashing.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #16t:
“In fifth en avant (first) imagine hugging a
cactus.”
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“He'd always
had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the
cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the
picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills,
with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering
supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
― Dorothy B. Hughes, The Expendable Man
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