Terrific Tuesday Skips
When teaching beginners, the difference between specific
jumping steps can be confusing. When the
student advances from jumping on two feet to alternating feet, remembering the
difference between jumping from one foot to the other (as in jeté), or jumping
and landing on the same foot (temps levé), can be daunting.
I like to tell beginners that steps that do not move from one foot to the other
(like sautés and temps levés) are something they already know how to do. Skip!
These steps are simple step-hops, exactly like a skip.
I sometimes have the dancers move across the floor doing
nothing but skipping. Then ask them to
do a sauté-sauté combination (in arabesque and/or retiré) across the floor
using the same feeling. Voila! They get it!
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Secret #15t:
“A sauté, or a temps levé is simply a step hop – a basic skip.”
Link of the Day:
Quote
of the Day:
“I
still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.... I play with leaves. I
skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without
soaking myself.”
~Leo F. Buscaglia, Bus 9 to Paradise
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