Wild Wednesday Supporting
At first glance, this may sound
counterintuitive: It is the supporting
leg that moves the body. How can that be? Aren’t you standing with all your
weight on it? Isn’t that like nailing your foot to the floor?
It works like this: it is precisely because
you are standing on it that you have the downward energy of your body weight
that helps you push off into another step – glissade for example. You never pull with your working leg because it
will take you off center. Instead – using glissade again – you extend energy through the working leg (a
subtle but important difference from pulling) while pushing (propelling) yourself
with your supporting leg.
Give some thought to this and it will
become clear.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #16x:
“The supporting leg moves the body.”
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not lead you astray.”
― Rumi
― Rumi
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