Mad Monday Short
That’s right. There’s no place for short in ballet. I’m not talking about
height, I’m talking about ballet technique.
Nothing should be short. No short
alignment: there’s always a minimum of two directions of energy and one of them
is up. There are no short legs or
arms since there is always energy outward through the extremities.
Then there’s movement itself. There are
no short steps. Always travel, reach out, use the space. Long, tall steps. No
short, hesitant ones.
In other words, everything is always
growing – outward and upward. Nothing is short in ballet except perhaps the
variation of the four little swans.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #21rr:
“There is no ‘short’ in ballet.”
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“Summer's
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― William Shakespeare, Sonnets
― William Shakespeare, Sonnets
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