Ballet Webb: Saturday Standard Silly

Saturday Standard Silly

In the course of every ballet class, there are statements, comments and directives that dancers understand completely, but that leave the average person scratching their head.

For example: “Don’t pull off your leg”. Think about it. As one of my adults students replied with a grimace as he stretched: “That’s just what it feels like I’m doing…”

Here’s one: “Get your eyes off the floor.” Hmmm. I don’t really want to think about that. Is that what the cat in the picture above is trying to accomplish?

And another: “Get out of the mirror.” Alice Through the Looking Glass, anyone?

And yet another: “Stretch your bottom leg.” Most people would say that they are both on the bottom, but dancers – well – are different.

There are many others you can probably think of…

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets

Secret #188:

“There are many silly sayings that only dancers understand.”

Link of the Day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P314XK-6Dh4

Quote of the Day:

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

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