Marvelous Monday Middle
Dancers have a tendency to focus on the “big”
or” important” steps: the poses, the pirouettes, the jumps. But often problems
lie in the middle. By that I mean those supposedly inconsequential steps like
glissade, chassé and the like.
These middle or in-between steps are
often overlooked and thus performed poorly, making the whole series of steps
work badly – mushy middle steps make for a mushy whole. Linking steps should be
crystal clear and clean, and should (most often) travel – another often overlooked essential.
So on this Monday, clarify mushy
middles.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #7qqq:
“Focus on the steps in the middle.”
Link of the Day:
Quote of the Day:
“It's so
difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle
of something? It's only with hindsight we can see things for what they
are.”
― S.J. Watson
― S.J. Watson
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