Terrific Tuesday Sandwich Cookie
Yes, it is yet another image for correct posture. This one is sweet.
When dancers are working on improving their posture, often
the effort to engage the abdominals and lengthen the spine has an unwanted side
effect: the entire body becomes tense
and the flow of movement from the upper body becomes impossible.
The difficulty here is that the upper body must remain
relaxed, and the arms fluid, without making the lower torso and the legs
wimpy. So imagine a reconstructed
sandwich cookie.
If the cookies is twisted apart and rebuilt with the cream
filling on the top, and two solid cookies on the bottom, you have the image
necessary for correct posture: soft on
top and solid on the bottom two-thirds.
Think about that the next time you have dessert!
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #1gg:
“Your posture is like a reconstructed sandwich cookie with the cream
filling on the top and the solid cookies on the bottom.”
Quote
of the Day:
“Think what a better world it would be if we
all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon
and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.”
-Barbara Jordan
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