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Wednesday Multiple Assemblés
A step that
many students dislike is brisé. I’m not sure why this is, unless their initial
exposure to the step was problematic, since the beating of the feet usually
takes some time to master.
It helps to
prepare students by having them do a step they are already familiar with:
assemblé. Have them go across the floor in a series of traveling assemblés, (glissade
assemblé, glissade assemblé, etc.) Have the assemblés close in back each time and emphasize the “assembling”
of the feet.
Then have
the students go across the floor again, but this time doing brisés with the
appropriate upper body posture. Most often the brisés are now less daunting and
the beats happen more readily.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #15bbb:
“A series of traveling
assemblés is a good preparation for brisés.”
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― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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