Fun Friday Flowery Fingers
In ballet, maintaining the correct shape in the hands is
important. If the fingers are squashed together, the hands look like mittens.
If the fingers are too far apart, the hands look like catcher’s mitts. Scary.
The idea is to keep the hands looking as natural as
possible. They should look like hands, not like anything else. They should also
move and breathe and not be held rigidly in place.
With all this in mind, imagine holding some lovely flowers,
with the stems placed gently but firmly between
each finger. This leaves enough space to prevent the “mittens” effect, but not
so much space that the hands look like they belong on a baseball team.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #6ccc:
“Imagine holding a flower stem between each finger.”
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“A weed is but an unloved flower.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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