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Saturday, June 2, 2018

Saturday Turn Around Rule



Saturday Turn Around Rule

When dancers travel across the floor (usually diagonally), it can be hazardous if they stop moving or (gasp!) turn around and go back – or, (double gasp!) back up. This is usually done in an attempt to fix something, or have another chance at a set of pirouettes or the like.

Don’t do it! If dancers turn around or back up they are apt to crash into the oncoming dancers, or at the very least, distract them from what they are doing. Neither scenario is safe. And most rules of classroom etiquette are designed with safety in mind.

Always continue to move across the floor, no matter what happens in the combination or what you’d like to “do over”. Fix it the next time around.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #28c:
“Never turn around and go back during an across-the-floor exercise.”

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