Wow, two days in a row. I'm on a roll. So I'm back again, since I was thinking about a class that I had a few days ago. Our regular teacher was sick, so we had an amazing sub. The only weird thing was that our studio teaches Cecchetti, while he was raised in Balanchine. So guess who had a Balanchine class?
I actually really liked it. This was only the second class that I've taken with Balanchine teacher, and I was again amazed at the difference. Different arms, different jumps, even a different way of doing tendus! I'm always getting corrected for not putting my heel down as soon as possible when coming back from a tendu. But in this class, we were supposed to "drop" our heel when we got to fifth. It was a miracle! But I guess that I'll have to stick with Cecchetti for a while. Well, that's all for today. Happy dancing!
-Addy
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
Bunheads: A Ballet Book!
I really like this book. Of course, this is coming from the girl who reads every book she can get her hands on, and practically lives in the school library during the day, but we dancers would all relate to this book. It's by Sophie Flack (Ever heard of her? Me neither.) who was apparently once a professional ballet dancer. It tells about the hard life of Hannah Ward, a corps dancer with the Manhattan Ballet. She then meets a guy and, well, I'll let you read the rest. We all want to do something with ballet when we're older, and this outlines one of the options. Will you still want to be ballet dancers after reading this? I do.
-Addy
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