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Wednesday Circular Patterns
By now
everyone is most likely involved in rehearsing for the upcoming performances of
Nutcracker, and I’d guess that
somewhere in that choreography is a circular pattern – often seen by dancers
doing piqué turns or something similar.
The problem
with circles is maintaining their size. As dancers move around the circle, the
circle –almost inevitably – gets smaller. Why is this?
Dancers are
taught to “replace the dancer in front” and that is mostly true. The problem is this: if the dancer goes directly (in a straight
line) to where the dancer before them was, it cuts the circle ever so slightly.
That’s why the circle gets a little smaller on each go-round.
Instead,
replace the dancer in front by going
slightly outside where they were. It’s as though a circle were drawn on the
floor, and the dancer stays on this curved line (slightly outside the dancer in
front).
This way,
the circle maintains a constant size.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #21l:
“To maintain a circular formation go
slightly to the outside of the dancer in front of you.”
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“Two main
categories of people are needed in your circle; those who give you the
necessary support to accomplish your dreams and those who become beneficiaries
of what you achieve.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
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