Fun Friday Stirring
To prevent a rond de jambe en l’air from
looking like little more than floppy kicking, it is important to have the
necessary resistance. This is not easy to feel, especially since it is difficult
enough to maintain the working leg turned out, at the correct height and moving
in the proper pattern in the air. Whew!
It is helpful to imagine that the
working leg is stirring batter – pancake batter, cake batter – whatever your
preference might be. The image of mixing batter provides the resistance needed since most of us are familiar with the
sensation of a spoon moving against the resistance of the batter in the bowl.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #11p:
“Imagine stirring batter during a rond de jambe en
l’air.”
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