Fun Friday Fence
A common problem for dancers at all
levels is looking down at the floor. This often happens during a relevé or jump
when the eye focus simply doesn’t go up with the dancer.
It helps to think of looking over a
fence. The fence is taller for jumps or relevés, but it never goes away.
Explain to students that they aren’t straining
to look over the fence, but can easily see over it when their eye focus is
in the right place.
Young children especially enjoy this
image and they learn, from their very first class, to keep their eye focus off
the floor and out into the distance.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #22bbb:
“Imagine looking over a fence.”
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