Fun Friday Pop
Happy Friday! Today I’m going to talk about those wonderful dégagés,
and reveal one secret for making them sparkle.
The problem dancers have during a series of fast dégagés is this:
not stretching the foot completely – since the tempo of the music is fast. When
this occurs, it looks like the student is wearing bedroom slipper instead of
ballet slippers. Scary. It is actually easily to move fast if the foot does
stretch fully, although this seems completely counterintuitive.
To get that all-important full stretch, imagine trying to pop the elastic (or the
ribbons, if wearing pointe shoes) off the
shoes when the foot is fully pointed.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #4r:
“In a series of quick dégagés, imagine stretching the foot
so hard that the elastic pops off the shoe.”
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