Things I realized today.
I’ve been taking ballet since I was a kid. My mother forced me to go ballet school I was taking the class at least three time a week that time. When I went to the state, I wanted to take the ballet class because I don’t need to speak good English there and make some friends. The truth to be said. Yes dancing is universal, the feeling and passion for the ballet is the same. Above all, I had motivation to study ballet.
Today I just got it how the plie works….it took me over 10 years to realize how the muscle works. Grand plie, executed inner thighs. Engaging inner thigh muscles as you close battement tendus and battement jetes into fifth will make your inner thighs work. Your quads take over when you forget about maintaining turnout, especially when your working leg is in the air, for example if, when you developpe devant, you let your working hip go up and out for the sake of height rather than maintaining turnout which must be maintained with the inner thigh muscle (sartorius especially) and the lower hip/rear upper leg muscles (primarily piriformis, gemellus, obdurators, gluteus minimus, adductors).
Plie was not just a plie. My mother tells me lots of things but this is something she could not tell me. I am gonna sleep on it.
