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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Wild Wednesday Vacuum Tube






Wild Wednesday Vacuum Tube

Here is another image for improving pirouettes – and other turns. Think about those tubes banks use at their drive-through tellers. 

These tubes are cylinders that get sucked up into a vacuum tube that goes from the outside drive-through into the bank. It’s great fun to watch this process if you’ve never seen it.

Now, whenever you turn, imagine your body inside that vacuum tube as it is sucked upwards  and on into the bank!

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #14iii:
“Imagine being in a bank’s drive-through vacuum tube.”

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“Every day is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.”
― Christopher Rice

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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Technical Tuesday Smell



Technical Tuesday Smell

The word olfactory means “relating to the sense of smell”. The human olfactory system is one of the oldest sensory systems in the history of mammals. A chemical sensor, the olfactory system not only detects food and other scents, it also influences behavior.

In the nose, (the nasal conchae) contains more than 100 million olfactory receptor cells. Thus, it is not surprising that as many as 2 million people in the U.S. have some kind of olfactory dysfunction, ranging from minor to severe.

That being said, most of us have an efficient sense of smell. The only time it shuts down is during REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep. During this time, you can’t smell anything you normally would. That’s why fire alarms are so important – during REM sleep you wouldn’t be able to smell smoke!

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Anatomical Secret #127:
“You can’t smell anything when you sleep.”

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Quote of the Day:
 “Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”
― Helen Keller

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Monday, May 8, 2017

Mad Monday Football Pads






Mad Monday Football Pads

Ahhh those shoulders that like to warm the earlobes. Scary. In ballet the shoulders are always down and relaxed and should never lift, causing the neck to vanish from sight.

I’ve talked about this before, but here is another way to think about it. Imagine wearing heavy shoulder pads like football players wear. (Now, that being said, you don’t want to look like you’re wearing them, you simple want to imagine the weight they would provide against the shoulders.)

Feel the weight of those pads on your shoulders, and it will be difficult for the shoulders to lift.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #1uuu:
“Imagine wearing football pads on your shoulders.”

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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

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Sunday, May 7, 2017

Sunday Three Thoughts






Sunday Three Thoughts

When you start your day, what are your usual thoughts? A to-do list? A host of worries and concerns? A feeling that it is going to be a bad day because it’s Monday, or the bills are due, or it’s raining? I know. We humans can be such negativity factories.

Instead, start your day by saying thank you three times. It will remind you of all the things you have, instead of allowing your mind to drift onto the things you don’t. 

After that, you can move into your day with a lifted spirit and happier thoughts will begin to outnumber the negative ones.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Motivational Secret #59:
“Three things to think when you start your day:  thank you, thank you, thank you.”

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“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

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Saturday, May 6, 2017

Saturday Stay Up Statute






Saturday Stay Up Statute

One common problem in pirouettes and other turns is when the dancer comes down (off relevé) too soon. As we all know, all pirouettes finish up, in retiré, and on relevé, before they go anywhere else. Technically speaking, all turns finish up.

Today’s Ballet Statute #109 is another way to think about it: “Stay up until the turn is finished.” That’s right. You’re not allowed to come down, and off relevé unless the turn is fully finished, and you’ve come back around to the starting position (or the designated finishing position).

At first this may be more difficult than you imagine, especially if you are in the habit of completing the final ¼ turn on the whole foot. Scary.

Stay up!

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Statute #109:
 “Stay up until the turn is finished.”

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“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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