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Friday, June 5, 2015

Fun Friday Happy Landing





Fun Friday Happy Landing

Happy Friday! Today let’s discuss piqués - those useful steps that allow a dancer to transfer weight efficiently onto one leg, on pointe or demi-pointe.  The word “pique” means to prick or stab and I have discussed this in previous blogs.

The usual problem in a piqué (for example, a piqué to arabesque) is a failure to lift the body high enough. It is as though the dancer is climbing up to the piqué from a long flight of basement stairs.  This is particularly problematic if the dancer is on pointe. That’s when the basement stairs get even longer and steeper.

Instead, imagine descending onto a rooftop at the moment of the piqué, as though lowered from a helicopter. The preparation for the piqué is an under-circle (see previous blogs), but the actual piqué moment comes from a high place – like an airplane.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:

Secret #13l:  
Imagine landing from the top, not climbing from the basement in a piqué.”

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Quote of the Day:
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”
-          Marcus Tullius Cicero


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