Friday Ice Cubes
The next
time you are enjoying a tall, cold drink filled with ice cubes, consider those
cubes. Their properties can be visualized to help your dance technique.
Sometimes,
ice cubes are firm and square and solid – like your torso must be for things
like pirouettes. Other times, the cubes are melting – like your legs in a plié,
or your arms in a port de bras. You get the idea.
The most
important idea for these ice cubes, I believe, is the firm and square image. So
often the torso isn’t. It twists around or (gasp!) bends forward when it is
supposed to maintain its integrity. Not good.
On these hot
summer days, imagine a nice cool ice cube the next time you pirouette.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #7kkk:
“Consider the properties of an ice cube.”
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