Mad Monday Myth
I am starting a new topic about balletic
myths. The things you hear that may not be absolutely true. Maybe completely
false.
Here’s the first ballet myth:“If you did it once you can do it again.”
Hmmm. That sounds great and it seems completely logical. That’s what I thought
when I first heard it from my teachers. But, like everything in ballet, it isn’t that
simple.
If I did five pirouettes on
pointe for the first time, this myth would indicate that now I’ll be able to do
five pirouettes every single time, all the time. But no. It doesn’t work like
that. There are simply too many variables.
Of course, doing five pirouettes once does
increase the likelihood of it happening again – maybe once every 100 or so
tries. With practice, it will become one time in 50, then 25…etc. So in that
sense, the myth is true.
But just doing it once does not mean
that you’ll immediately and forevermore be able to do it. That's the myth.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Ballet Myth #1a:
“If you did it once you can do it again.”
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“A myth is
a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that
give significance to our existence.”
― Rollo May
― Rollo May
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