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What To Look For in Ballet Performance!

Look for vibrancy in choreography and movement. Is there beauty in the ordinary, the repetitive? Are the dancers blissful in their surroundings? What is motivating the ballet dancers? Is the dancer sensuous?.

Think of the 'toolbox of the body':-

Feeling are “spiritual, mental, psychic, inward” .... all about “loving, living and giving”

Feeling allows the dancer to explore.

Watch for the 'inner' and 'outer' -- two simultaneous modes running in harmony together.

The outer awareness:- the air, the seasons, the sky.

The inner awareness:- the movement, the direction, the shape.

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A dancer can reach a vibrant, blissful state sometimes dreamy, sometimes sharpened. The performer invites the audience to join them in that state - to pull them in - not to just observe.

This mutual sharing is the same as the 'suspension of disbelief' that film-makers talk of. The eyes of the audience are often drawn to one performer over the rest - not necessarily the lead dancer.

Why? ......

The performer understands and can alter their state so as to pull the spectators in by asking them to share and join with them?

Almost all movements in dance have an association which changes the feeling inside the body. There is a meeting of body & soul.

We are stardust - the matter which makes us has existed since the big bang. We are part of a universal energy.

This fact of history must be danced! Without religion but with spirituality. The individual self must be transcended.

Capture, adapt and present the force which emanates from being onstage.


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