Petalviolet
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I've just tried it with a totally straight back and I could barely get lower than a few inches. I have no tendons and I hate ballet.
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I've hurt my knee.
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Oh well that sound like it's only something a specialist could spot - not like being able to touch your toes or anything so obvious.
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I've just tried it out of curiosity. A delicate question..exactly how far are you allowed to stick your derrière out? I know that's not generally acceptable in ballet and technique is everything.. Straight back or crouched over like your life depended on it?
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Ooooh thank you swan princess that's perfect. I don't actually have Achilles' tendons I have "cankles" instead so I don't need to worry but interested to see if DD can manage this.
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Some of my actual proper questions get lost in my nonsense though - I don't want the thread to get too sidetracked but tight Achilles? How do you know if you have them? Is that something to do with your ankles? Bless you all.
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I've been saying it wrong. For a while now. To teachers. People in dance shops. I just need to take a moment to mourn the passing of my title perfect ballet mum and some of my self esteem.
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I'm going to treasure this comment! Particularly as I'm the antithesis of perfect ballet mum e.g can someone tell me if it's pronounced R.A.D or RAD all in one go? You'd think that I would have heard it enough by now but I just can't make this bit of ballet go in and stay in.
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How do you know if your DD has tight Achilles?!
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Just an idea! X
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Anna C and Alfred71 do you think it would be an idea to change the title of this thread slightly to add 2015? Just as it seems to be the thread that we've naturally chosen to discuss the actual audition this year and might help subsequent searchers to compare for future reference? What do you think?
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Hi Alfred71!!!! I know nothing about fire, that's a juicy nugget DD chose to withhold! Between all of us we'll have this audition unravelled and unpicked in no time!
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And a wand. Have found hermione granger wand in ballet bag which due to previous injury has snapped in half again. Chute beckons. DD got licked in the face by a large black lab on the way home? My mother purports that to be lucky.
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Maybe that's what all the squatting was about. NO PV NO! This thread is not to be sullied by your whimsy. I want this thread to be one of the threads Anna C chooses to pin when anyone asks about the RBS.
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Oh aballetlife...such a knowledgable post scuppered by autocorrect...
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I wondered as I remember it being mentioned in our Day As A JA that associates get homework (so to speak) a selection of small exercises to do a few nights a week like froggies and zipping up tummy muscles and I thought just introducing these on a regular basis would get DD into the habit and see how committed she was? I assumed it's not just for Royal Associates but for all the pre vocational courses so Tring or YDA, LJB, Elmhurst etc all might encourage this. We did spend more time on splits and that's where the most improvement has been (again took about three months before noticeable) but that hadn't been required in any audition and only gave her confidence in the waiting room!
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They'd be no discussing it here would there? If they don't like you...it's the chute.
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DD has never done that particular stretch before or worked on improving it as I also thought it was one of those tricky physical things you are just born with that creates a pleasing line but is hard to work with and too much was a bad thing? Even in her Russian classes but then she's still v young and not advanced. She only started to enjoy stretching when it began to pay off and she could see improvement but now auditions over and we still have to keep going....reaching a wall!
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Honestly I'm just glad we got through the audition without an alarm sounding and a trapdoor opening.
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Exactly. The position was sitting on the floor, legs in front with either toes pointed heels off and feet flexed heels off. Now whether heels off and to the degree heels off is a good or bad thing I can't possibly judge. DD may have been trying to stretch to do something that emphasised a negative but SHE THOUGHT the purpose was to see how high those heels came off the floor as if it was a good thing!!?? It's purely one move during the whole audition that has sparked interest in their minds or was memorable. I'm sure there were lots of other positions as the audition was thorough and would have incorporated lots of different aspects. I mention simply because it was an interesting topic and I think the girls were having a good go at trying to do their best! Well done little ones and try not to worry parents!
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Also DD said they tried the same move with feet flexed so toes pointing to ceiling to see how far heels popped up? I guess they were checking for lots of things and that was the move that stuck in her mind the most.
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Think I'm definitely going to need some advice re stretching routines for the under tens but I always have to work up the courage to start a new thread and it can wait till Monday as have a few questions fermenting. Let's all just enjoy no more auditions before the pacing begins!
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Ok so at our bath time stretches (seemed to be hitting post audition lacklustre phase already with these might ask advice in separate thread on motivational tips) managed to get a bit more out of DD and I know auditions all done for us lot but maybe someone reading for 2016 might be reading...who knows...? She also said that they were to pretend a corner of the studio was the Royal Opera house and that they had to run across the floor, choose a couple of jumps which they could make up but the landing pose had to be the same and then present to a pretend audience. I probably won't be able to milk her for much more insider tips because her tiny memory won't serve for much more than a couple of days before it reverts to more important things like Lego Friends. Also I think I've had enough ballet chat tonight after coming off the worse in a "there's no such thing as fondue in ballet" argument.
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So excited (but it's not really Ballet, sorry)
Petalviolet replied to Katymac's topic in Doing Dance
I'm sorry you didn't get to see her dance I'm being forced to watch it and I'd much rather have seen the dancing than listen to the pundit chit chat wiffle waffle. Hope someone was videoing it for you? -
I don't think I want to read that. I think I want to stay in fairyland where our place is assured.
