Saturday
Born Statute
There seems
to be the idea that some people are just born dancers. This is simply not true.
Dancers are trained, not born. The
only exception to this – in my opinion – is in the area of artistic expression,
not technique. Technique is learned (trained), but I have found that training
the acting ability is more difficult, although certainly not impossible.
As I tell my
students, if they walked into the classroom under their own power, they can
train to be the best dancer they can be. Training
makes the dancer. No more lamenting that “I don’t have talent”, or “I don’t have the right body”. It’s all in the
determination of the student. Dance training works. And it works well.
Amazingly well, in fact.
I have
professional dancer friends who started out with little or no turnout, tight
hips, and/or poorly healed broken bones. All became dancers, and beautiful
ones. It’s all about the training.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Statute #100:
“Dancers aren’t born, they’re
trained.”
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Quote of the Day:
“Art is
unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It
trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun
colors flowers, so does art color life.”
― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
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