Fun Friday Two Battements
Today’s
video has a great message along with showing the slow motion moment of a grand jeté
(at 1:35).
Any grand jeté
must have two grand battements. The
first one, (which can be a développé grand battement), is done with the first,
or leading leg. The second grand battement is the one most often lacking: it is
done with the back leg and helps thrust the dancer off the floor as well as
completing the lovely line of a split in the air.
The first
grand battement is directed outward,
parallel to the floor – not down toward the floor – another common error.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #15aaaa:
“A grand jeté has two grand
battements.”
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will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
― Barack Obama
― Barack Obama
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