Wacky Wednesday Hard to Beat
Yesterday I talked about the word entrechat and how the French definition
means “between cat”. Today I’m focusing on how to improve these beats.
Those pesky beats! The feet always want
to go around (front to back) instead of cleanly sideways. What to do? Here’s a
good way to practice: jump from fifth to second, then come in and beat, then
return to second. Keep doing this, landing back in second every time until it
feels relatively comfortable.
Then make the second position smaller. Keep reducing the width of the
second position until it becomes fifth – voila! Beats that goes side-to-side
instead of front-to-back.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #15qqq:
“ Practice jumping from second position to improve
beats.”
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