Mad Monday Battement Devant
Often in a grand jeté en tournant,
students never hit a good devant position with their working leg and instead
move too quickly to change direction. This can also cause “butterflying” the
legs instead of each leg moving in scissor-like fashion past each other in the
air.
Practice doing a jump that only goes to
battement devant. This can be preceded by a chassé or a glissade as long as the
focus is on feeling the strong brush of the battement to the devant position.
After this has been achieved, then move
on to the grand jeté en tournant making sure to feel the same strong devant
position before changing direction in the air.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #15rrr:
“Practice jumping in a battement devant to improve
grand jeté en tournant.”
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transformation.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
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