Fun Friday
Flip
Piqué fouettés
to arabesque are often problematic because the dancer doesn’t use a clean,
sharp spot (if it turns it spots,
remember). This bogs down the whole operation and makes the student unable to
go through the three required positions: devant, à la seconde, and arabesque.
An image that
helps develop a quick, clean transition is this: tell the students to imagine
flipping a pancake. Most of them will be familiar with this process even if
they don’t cook, and understand that a pancake is flipped cleanly and quickly
to produce the best result.
As the
students begin the fouetté, say “Flip the pancake!”
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #14ee:
“In a piqué fouetté, imagining
flipping a pancake.”
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― Søren Kierkegaard
― Søren Kierkegaard
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