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Welcome to York University’s First Year Ballet Technique Open Class. Ballet Beyond Tradition Ballet for the 21 st century. The Warm-up facing the barre.
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Welcome to York University’s First Year Ballet Technique Open Class Ballet Beyond Tradition Ballet for the 21st century
The Warm-upfacing the barre • Our daily ritual of dancing from the inside out. Connecting to internal relationships of head to thorax, thorax to pelvis, pelvis to legs. • Getting in touch with and living within our posture. • Taking away and reintroducing the sight to promote internal balance, stability and calm.
Plies Working to embody - Suspension “A suspension is a prolonged high point. It is created at the peak of the movement by continuing the movement and delaying the takeover of gravity.”
Tendues from 1st position Working to embody - Weight “Weight is added by isolating a part of the body allowing it to succumb to gravity while maintaining suspensions, oppositions and high points with the rest of the body.”
Tendu from 5th position Working to embody - Isolation “Isolation of one body part to increase freedom, and flow in another part of the body.”
Degage Working to embody – Succession “Succession is the sequential path of movement through the parts of the body.”
Ronds de Jambe Working to embody a consistent use of breath to create moments of suspension. “A suspension is a prolonged high point. It is created at the peak of the movement by continuing the movement and delaying the takeover of gravity.”
Frappe Working to embody- Isolation and Opposition Opposition is a way of using the entire body to create the feeling of length and stretch in a movement, without tensing or gripping (shortening) the muscles.
Adage Working to embody – Rebound and Recovery “The end result of recovery and rebound it the same – the potential energy released in a fall is accumulated at the bottom of the fall and rechanneled. It incorporates and elastic reaction of the muscles.”
Grands Battements Working to embody – Fall and rebound and recovery “A fall is a complete release of the muscles as the body, giving into gravity, drops”
Centre Practice Traveling Pirouette: Integrating creativity and individuality into the ballet class. First Variation: set choreography to Chopin Second Variation: improvised moments set to a Spanish Waltz
Tendu and Pirouette Integration of rhythm and characterization
Adage Making movement your own. Taking inspiration from pictures, poetry, songs, personal narratives or memories. (image submitted by Alison Bedford)
Adage Inspirations “Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never ending line Along the margin of a bay; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.” -Wordsworth (submitted by Hannah Walter) Van Gogh’s Starry Night (submitted by Deanna Paolantonio)
Adage “This is my sea, my immense sea, and I sing I can feel the silence around me, And the music rises softly from violins Then I see your face again” – Andrea Bocelli (submitted by Melissa Presutti)
Adage “I think its time to put myself away Seek out a little silence Close the doors and sit a while Walk a little” - Kt Tunstall (submitted by Marieve Aube) Image of Dandelion (submitted by Stephanie Charette)
Allegro Working to embody Kinetic and Potential Energy “Energy is the capacity of the body to move, and potential energy is that capacity in its unreleased state – the threshold of movement. Kinetic energy is the potential energy in motion.”
