Fun Friday Work and Support
When performing an adagio combination
with lots of lovely développés, there is always the tendency to concentrate on
the working leg. Getting it more
turned out, getting it higher, etc…
Pity the poor supporting leg. It doesn’t
get any of the attention. It’s just there, doing a lot of the work, holding you
up and operating (hopefully) as resistance to the movements of the working leg.
Yet we seldom focus on it. Sigh.
Try this: from now on, during any adagio
combination, concentrate on the supporting
leg. Your développés will happen without all your focus being on them. And you may be surprised to find out how
much this helps maintain stability and improve the whole operation.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #11o:
“Think as much about the supporting leg as the working
leg in adagio.”
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Quote of the Day:
“We know
that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something
one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the
boundaries of the subject itself...”
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
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