DAN 245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Gurn, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Royal Danish Ballet
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Dan 245 textbook notes: week 10 reading 2. Assignment: adice, an account of the principles of our traditions (pp. Adice was a dancer at the paris opera and then an instructor. Adice describes his ballet class, which aimed at nurturing energy and endurance emphasis on sustained movement (now called adagio) Blasis described a lesson that adice refers to. Blasis"s lesson begins with plies and ends with several combinations using pirouettes. Adice explains each part of the blasis lesson and expands upon his points a dancer never begins to work in center until he has spent half an hour at the barre. Plies in all five positions, three slow and three sharp in each position, 48 altogether. Grand battement, sixteen for each leg in each position, 128 altogether then there are 96 petite battement. Next come coupes and attitudes, then fouettes after that, dancers did 48 preparations for pirouettes before performing a turn.
