Wild Wednesday Rigid Wrist
An often overlooked area in dance
involves the wrists. How often have you heard anything about this area of the
arms and hands? I thought so. Unless there is undue tension and/or extreme
flexing you hear little about them.
That’s too bad because the wrists are
important for the execution of lovely port de bras. The wrists allow beautiful,
lyrical movement. Try doing any port de bras with rigid or flexed wrists and
you’ll see what I mean.
The wrists are never rigid and/or locked
into position, instead, they move in a subtle, but definite way, following the
lead the hands in whatever port de bras is being performed. The best way to see
this is to watch videos of dancers with lovely port de bras. You’ll notice that
the wrists aren’t rigidly held, nor are they overly flexed.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #6ppp:
“The wrists are gently moveable, never rigid.”
Link of the Day:
Quote of the Day:
“Тhe
gentle overcomes the rigid.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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