Posted on 2018/03/25, in balllet, technical notes, uggghhh...technique and tagged brisée, brisée means broken for a reason. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
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Lexington Ballet: Our Sapphire Season
Join us for our 45th Anniversary Season, with two mainstage performances and several Gallery Hop events remaining!
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lexington Opera House
14-15 February, 2020
Snow White
Lexington Opera House
11 April, 2020
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Louisville Ballet School's Spring Dance Festival
The Brown Theater, Louisville, KY
May, 2020 (dates TBA)
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I don't even remember how this started, but a fb thread last night gave rise to this ... thing. Gentles, I give you: "The Rhombus of Doubt" (Yes ... The text is simultaneously an artist's statement about imposter syndrome and a maths joke 😅😅😅 Also, it's bugging the hecking hecc outta me that the line, "Am I even a rhombus?" isn't QUIIIITTTTTEEE parallel to the top left line of the rhombus ... I made this in my phone and couldn't get it to line up any more precisely) Also, some awkwardly-stated facts about rhombuses that you're probably never going to need and will almost CERTAINLY never need in this form, but they make me giggle so here we are: square ≈ rectangle; square ≈ rhombus; rectangle ≈ rhombus; UNLESS rectangle != square; rectangle != rhombus; rhombus != rectangle As such the only reliable conclusion is: geometry = cray #Math #mathmemes #rhombus #RhombusOfDoubt #geometrymemes #nerdhumorScenes from a life that I'm loving, thinking from time to time, "I am so lucky that thirty years, forty years, fifty years from now, I'll have these amazing memories." (Even if some of them involve an epic Theater Week Toothache or the puffiest eyes due to a hyperactive smoke/fog machine 😂) A million thanks to every single person who has quietly or not-so-quietly pushed the little boat that is my life along the sometimes-snaggy stream that is life as an artist. I hope I'll make all of you proud 💖Considerate partnering 101: if you're a sweaty, soggy disaster area, bring a dry shirt. Maybe two. Probably the most memorable correction from my first day ever of Company Class last year 😅💦 #ballet #partnering #balletboy #themoreyouknow#nachmoprompt 21!!!: Outside Influences Music: Salt of the Sound, "Be Still, My Soul," from In Prayer, available on Amazon Music. Outside Influence: though this want my original impulse, having looked at both protest art and Maxfield Parrish today, the music led me in the Maxfield Parrish direction. I don't know that I could point to a specific painting, but the atmosphere of dreamy clarity seems to remain. Later in this improv, there are moments where I see some of the more direct impact of Parrish's figurative paintings, but I really liked this part (mainly because of the weird penché, even though I pressed back at the very end for some reason 🤔 ... I think I stopped thinking about letting my leg drive and let go of my core a bit). Anyway, for an exhausted and underfed improv, I think it's decent. #nachmo2020 #instadance #dancestagram #choreographicimprovisation #contemporaryballet #weirdpenché #butilikeit #balletboy #clarendonfilterpotentially unsociable media
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For me this comes under “stuff that happened on intensive week but God help you if dynamite or cap’n marmite suddenly calls for one now”
I was having the same problem for a long time—brisée almost never comes up in class, probably because everyone’s terrified of it, but it shows up in advanced class from time to time, at intensives, and in auditions, at which point I’d grit my teeth and approximate as hard as possible.
Fortunately, BW takes requests, so now we do it all the time in his class 😀