Angela Essex Posted December 2, 2021 Share Posted December 2, 2021 11 hours ago, TYR said: "Could you try dancing what I set? I've marked it four times and I'm going to have a breakdown" 😂😂😂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 Three! from Anna: "If your arm is not over your head, there is no centre line to your body. That's where a partner will support you" "Port de bras cannot be added on as an afterthought, it is an integral part of the whole. Start the port de bras on the "and", like a singer taking a breath" "if you're overcrossing in front you're probably undercrossing behind" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted March 22, 2022 Author Share Posted March 22, 2022 "It was all right up to the passé. Then you all went to Seven Dials." To Seven Dials? Eh? "Flick up, but allow yourself to overcross a little" *tries* huh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Essex Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 The barre is there for decoration it’s not a lifeline 😂 If you’re going to do your exam you’re going to have to know what your’e doing (after I fluffed the tendu exercise after weeks of learning it 🤯) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted April 4, 2022 Author Share Posted April 4, 2022 2 minutes ago, Angela Essex said: The barre is there for decoration it’s not a lifeline 😂 If you’re going to do your exam you’re going to have to know what your’e doing (after I fluffed the tendu exercise after weeks of learning it 🤯) "The barre is your prince's hand...he won't be there in the centre when you need him, like all men" 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Essex Posted April 4, 2022 Share Posted April 4, 2022 1 minute ago, TYR said: "The barre is your prince's hand...he won't be there in the centre when you need him, like all men" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 hilarious 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Ha ha TYR wonder who said that!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 2 hours ago, LinMM said: Ha ha TYR wonder who said that!! would it be, perchance, Renato? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted July 30, 2022 Author Share Posted July 30, 2022 Bill Waldinger: https://classicalballetandallthatjazz.com/2022/07/25/thoughts-on-grand-plie/ "Dance inside a block of wet cement" 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willimus Posted July 30, 2022 Share Posted July 30, 2022 (edited) 7 hours ago, TYR said: Bill Waldinger: https://classicalballetandallthatjazz.com/2022/07/25/thoughts-on-grand-plie/ "Dance inside a block of wet cement" Thanks for sharing my article😉 Edited July 30, 2022 by Willimus Incomplete 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 9 hours ago, Willimus said: Thanks for sharing my article😉 Hello Willimus and welcome to the Forum! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Essex Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 9 hours ago, Willimus said: Thanks for sharing my article😉 Loved reading it. Very interesting piece thank you. Also your story on your blog is inspirational. Loved that you were taking 15 classes a week in your 20s just because you loved to dance. I started ballet at 45 having never danced before and it was so interesting to read your account of how training our bodies at different times of life differs. Thank you again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted July 31, 2022 Author Share Posted July 31, 2022 10 hours ago, Willimus said: Thanks for sharing my article😉 welcome to our forum! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted August 26, 2022 Author Share Posted August 26, 2022 One from Anna du Boisson: Quote you know when you see a fly banging its head into the window over and over again? you need to stop dancing like that and analyze what is happening 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 Also an Anna-ism: Quote If a step doesn't work, you're probably either behind the music or your weight is in the wrong place I was expecting her to say something about the time she held the late Queen's hair while she was throwing up, or the like, but not yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 As I was maintaining what I thought was a fairly decent 2nd position port de bras certain corrections were made. "Oh", I thought, "like a Klingon bird of prey battle cruiser. I think I can live with that". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Stretch! Stretch all the way back to Basingstoke! Blimey, it isn't getting much beyond Clapham Junction 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Don't hold the barre like you're pushing a trolley around Lidl. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 On 08/04/2019 at 21:37, TYR said: Thanks for all the shares, hilarious! But that is part of their art, bless 'em! We remember! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 (edited) One student to another about a correction: "She mentioned a chicken? I'm sure it wasn't my arms..." "Were you scratching around searching for bugs?" Edited September 24, 2022 by Alexander 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TYR Posted November 22, 2022 Author Share Posted November 22, 2022 Not really a correction: "I remember when I was young, and in open class, when all the companies were...I found myself surrounded by people from the Royal Ballet and I had no idea what I was doing... but I was looked after" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 Recent addition with arms in 5th "we're not forming a tent" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 SQUID GAME! [jumping to 8 and only 8 counts] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted November 23, 2022 Share Posted November 23, 2022 "Where do you feel it in your body?" Trick question and needed a carefully judged response... "Well.. my brain isn't doing so well" 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Essex Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 On 24/09/2022 at 20:23, Alexander said: Don't hold the barre like you're pushing a trolley around Lidl. Haha the lovely Hannah Frost says this - love it 🤣 Do a mini plié - no, smaller than that - imagine you’ve gone to the pub and ordered a Bailey’s and they’ve given you the tiniest ever amount and it’s so small you wish you’d never bothered to order it - that’s how small a plie. 🤣 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 ...Ryan Air plie, not an Emirates plie. BA plies come later.... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 (edited) "... that's a crime and you will be taken to the incidence room" And the little voices in my head pop off "It's a fair cop Guv but the wind blew all wrong and I have 11 unfed children and this ballet thing causes my buttocks to shrink something horrid..." Restraint is essential Edited December 3, 2022 by Alexander 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glowlight Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 How have I never read this thread before? It is gold. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Essex Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 On 02/12/2022 at 22:51, Alexander said: ...Ryan Air plie, not an Emirates plie. BA plies come later.... Yasss 🤣 17 hours ago, Alexander said: "... that's a crime and you will be taken to the incidence room" And the little voices in my head pop off "It's a fair cop Guv but the wind blew all wrong and I have 11 unfed children and this ballet thing causes my buttocks to shrink something horrid..." Restraint is essential Lol if the ballet incident room was real I’d have spent a LOT of time in there over the last year for crimes against ballet 🤣 And @Alexanderdon’t forget Kung Fu Panda foot (said when leg not turned out in developee or tendu to second). Absolute gold 🤣 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 13 minutes ago, Angela Essex said: Yasss 🤣 Trouble is every time a crime is mentioned I feel obliged to try it..it sort of sounds interesting. Now, if there was ever the mention of proscribed Zombies I think I might just shamble for the rest of the class. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 NO GURNING! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 On 04/12/2022 at 12:15, Angela Essex said: Yasss 🤣 Lol if the ballet incident room was real I’d have spent a LOT of time in there over the last year for crimes against ballet 🤣 Always interesting to track the cost of crimes (paid either cash or PayPal) as it seems the current cost of living crisis has led to a 12.5 - 25% rise. I always have a couple of gold Kruggerand or other internationally recognised bullion in my ballet bag for ad hoc expenses but haven't quite summed up the courage to ask if change is given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Essex Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 2 hours ago, Alexander said: Always interesting to track the cost of crimes (paid either cash or PayPal) as it seems the current cost of living crisis has led to a 12.5 - 25% rise. I always have a couple of gold Kruggerand or other internationally recognised bullion in my ballet bag for ad hoc expenses but haven't quite summed up the courage to ask if change is given. 🤣 yes it’s gone up from £1 to £1.50 so a 50% increase - well above inflation 🤣🤣🤣 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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