Friday, May 4, 2012

End of Semester Ballet Video Thoughts

Barre:

Seeing this video, I have certainly seen many things that I have improved on, but I however have seen a lot more of what I need to work on. It appears that bringing into awareness any mistakes is the first battle in being able to apply the correction. At the beginning of the barre, I did notice that though the majority of time I appear to have a good tucked tailbone, at the very last minute coming down, sometimes it doesn't hold. So, the correction I can make to this is actually to feel as if the tailbone has been in its same position even seemingly past the limit I can make it go to. This would also keep the energy in better flow.

There is also something I am trying to figure out how to round even more when it comes to the cambre. I could manage having a better rounding and fluidity to it. I sometimes feel it may be my body structure and muscles themselves perhaps making it a little more difficult to pull it off the way I want it to be.

I noticed in various of the barre exercises, that I could do a better job at stationing my pelvis. This was especially seen while doing rond de jambes. The rond de jambes en l'aire could appear to have even more extension, event though I feel I do have extension. It is likely the pelvis and not going beyond the energy of the foot enough or video tricks.

Center & Across the Floor

Putting developing a quicker on-the-spot memory to the side (as it's always a goal),  I could definitely finish movements better. Though I am using a little bit more arms, I have a lot of work to give them more clear positions. I will have to do isolated moves on my own to get a gracefulness of them and the feeling of the sustained time of each particular movement. Then feeling the connection between them. The connection is so very important like the importance of forming a gramatically correct sentence instead of having each word in the sentence spelled correctly.

On the types of Glissades

To glissade means to slide. There are several types of glissades, but four will be discussed-- glissade dessus, glissade dessous, glissade devant, and glissade derriere (not talked about will be glissade avant and glissade arrière. The differences between all of these is in where the move starts and where it ends.

Dessous means above or over, whereas dessus means underneath or below. Glissade dessus would begin with right foot back in 5th position and ends with the left foot back. Glissade dessous is similair, yet right foot starts in the front and finishes in the back. So basically (a way I can remember it now), Dessus back, weave, end front, and Dessous front, weave, end back.

Devant and Derrier are easier to explain in that they do not change. The initiating foot of the Glissade Devant is the right foot in the front and ends in the right foot in the front. The Glissade Derrier, is the same thing but happens in the back.