Wacky Wednesday Warped
Ah, the dreaded warped pirouette. You
know what I mean. It’s when some part of the body, or many parts, fail to come
into proper alignment. Often it is the shoulder area that is tilted sideways, forward
or (gasp!) back.
Since dancers are a determined species,
they force their pirouettes to happen despite being skewed. Sadly, the
appearance of such turns is that of a top when the momentum is slowing – warped. Not good.
I had a wonderful dance partner who always
noticed even a slight degree of misalignment – to say nothing of the major
blunders. He would laugh and say under his breath: “Kinda warped there, darlin’”.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Ballet Secret #14uuu:
“A pirouette should never appear warped.”
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Quote of the Day:
“…the
Greeks were highly skilled at building visual compensations into their
structures. Columns were crafted and positioned to compensate for how the eye
interprets what it sees at a distance. Subtle variances in the surface of
platforms, columns, and colonnades provide the appearance of geometric
proportion, whereas if they had worked from the perspective of a flat datum
surface, the brain would interpret the results as being slightly skewed.”
― Christopher Dunn, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs
― Christopher Dunn, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs
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