Alexander
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The sort of correction when the instructor, in passing, seems to make a very slight adjustment to an arm or leg without comment and then moves on but the feeling is so different and connected and whole and thoughts flood in "oh, my, its like this!"... and I then spend the next 10 classes trying to re-find it again.
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I forgot to gurgle in a possessed sort of way. I'm sure there is a rule against gurgling.
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Vaganova head tilt- I just had to go the wrong way. She reached up and corrected it.. somewhat reminiscent from a scene in the Exorcist.
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Paraphrasing: "don't find yourself in-between. Either be here or there but if you are in-between you are nowhere. Be here!" (or there, there was some soliloquy as to whether here was better than there).
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The sort of correction where all attempts at verbal communication have been terminated and they creep up behind and (I cannot quite describe the effect) they have a good rummage to sort things out around the haunches...and it's OMG! What have you done?!...It feels..ODD. And then they walk away... probably to do stealth rummaging elsewhere.
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Not sure if this will be helpful. Franziska Rosenzweig has a Berlin ballet retreat 30th July - 3rd Aug. https://www.holisticballet.com/berlin-ballet-retreat Alex
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This on entered my ballet brain recently, "you'll never be able to turn without knowing how it finishes"...hmmmm
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We shall plot. Every ballet class needs some commedia dell'arte... I shall, hmmm lets see... hmm be Il Capitano. That should draw out some spicy corrections....
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Well, hmmm, going to have a bit of think about this one. Hmmmm... well beyond my meagre efforts. Can we do Sarabande? Real slowly.
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I was there! My little ear lobes just quivered with excitement - circles, what circles, who, what, where?... ... and... Well, yes Anna, but at least one dancer here would just like to attain a proficient level of frantic but I don't think this is a good place to argue..
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Picking at the barre can be a little tricky.. choices, choices. Prime spot right next to the instructor.. real close to capture every minute detail and soak in all the tasty morsels of ballet advice. But then they can spot everything in minute detail too. So, I found myself basking in commentary on what makes the the ideal position for port de bras 5th postion gazing on with admiration, spotting things in the mirror... hands forward, turning in, with a good shape to be seen by just raising the eyes and.... "just in the fringeline" [pause] "IF WE HAD ONE" Goddamit... I'm paying good money for this! Coming to class with comb-over, see how yer like that!
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Contradanse [country dance]..super fun and has its own discipline. Not sure if its possible to add classical ballet steps but going straight into sousou during Mr Beveridge's Maggot would get my vote. Full on Jane Austin turbo mode.
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Cost of living probably has something to do with it as well? And perhaps a lack of local marketing. I mean I don't see ballet in the shopping malls or other public places to show ballet is here, give it a go?
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I must admit that doin' a swan having a bit of a bad day... I'd be first up for that. Character swan dance.. YES! But true, there will be folk who want to do the dances but not put the work in to do the technique. So the challenge might be to get that balance. In the fencing world there is non-cooperative play usually at the end of class - it is the part of class fencers want to do; unscripted and fun away from the drills but instructors can offer - you work, you get to play, if no work well its more drills!
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I've done this a few times with other dancers in a historical dance context. It's pretty cool getting us to think and feel in different ways how to relate to music, adding contrast and engaging in a creative process.
