Stepping into arabesque from développé effacé is tricky, says Kelly Slough of Mark Morris Dance Center, because it involves “that moment of truth”: changing weight from one leg to the other in one movement. To make that transition easier, Slough encourages dancers to complete the weight shift as quickly and confidently as possible—as counterintuitive as that may seem. “Taking your back with you,” as she calls it, means there’s less of a chance you’ll underestimate the required change of weight and fall backward from the arabesque.
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