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Wednesday Bean Bag Elbows
Props are
such fun in a ballet class, and I believe they work just as effectively with
older students as they do with young children.
One
particularly effective prop is a set of bean bags. They can be used in a
variety of ways, but today I’m talking about those droopy elbows. And you will
remember that there is no drooping in ballet.
Place one
bean bag on each elbow when the arms are in à la second. Simply feeling their
weight is often all it takes for a student to understand how to correctly
rotate and lift the elbows – otherwise the bean bags will fall off.
Bean bag
elbows!
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #20r:
“Place a bean bag on each elbow.”
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