Is there any word that your ballet teacher says a lot?
Mine, apart from "¡no!", likes to shout "¡TALÓN!" all the time. It literally means "heel!", but not literally, it means "push your heel forward so I can see your turnout, damn it!!!".
So basically, if we're doing a series of relevés, we hear something like this: "¡uno, talón, hop, talón, tres, talón, cuatro, talón, hop, talón, hop, talón, etc.!"
And the same happens when it comes to tendus and jetés: "¡y, fuera, talón, fuera, talón, fuera, fuera, fuera, talón!"
Kinda funny, guys!
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| This is not even possible! Venus Villa's turnout |
Remember your turnout!
Nerea.
It's so interesting how the way you hold your heel is so important in ballet. It's of those things you would never realize unless you took a class.
ReplyDeleteRight? And when you start it takes a lot of time to realise that you need to keep your feet turned out. Last year, after doing a series of jetés or tendus, my teacher used to say: "Nerea, look at your feet!". I looked down and they were almost in parallel...
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