Techniques
★Open: refers to the hip joints to the human body on both sides of the outside open, hip joints open, stretching the lines of the human body, increasing the human body's ability to express the lower limbs, ballet in the "open" has a certain degree of difficulty, it must be from the hip joints to the knee joints, wrist joints, the tips of the toes to open all the contraindicated easy to open parts make hard to open, not easy to open parts do not open, this will easily cause upper and lower distortion. It is important not to open the parts that are easy to open, but not to open the parts that are not easy to open, which will easily cause up and down distortion and strain the muscles or ligaments. "The opening of the hip joints can stretch the lines of the human body, and the opening of the shoulder joints is not only conducive to the straightening and tightening of the back, but also adds to the actor's high spirit and upright temperament.
★Straightening: also one of the basic elements of ballet. In the basic training class, tense foot is one of the topics that teachers often remind students. It can be said that the power leg must be tensed whenever it moves, especially off the ground. Tensing the foot also serves two important purposes. One is that tensing the foot undoubtedly lengthens the length of the leg and reinforces the gracefulness of the leg's streamline. The second is that tense foot training can make the ankle joint get strong exercise, enhance the sensitivity below the ankle joint to the toe joint.
General beginners in the tense foot exercises, often appear tense instep not tense toes or only tense toes do not tense instep phenomenon, which are not in line with the norms, tense foot must start from the ankle joints to the power of the toes all the way through to the toes, so that the toes to find the heart of the foot, the back of the foot in fact the tenser the toes, the leg will be the tighter the knee. A performer must endure thousands of boring and monotonous foot tensing exercises to find the true meaning of ballet basic training in foot tensing.
★Straight: In the basic training is a whole concept, requires the body to be upright, not collapse waist convex buttocks, not chest folded belly, also includes the legs in the need to straighten the time, must tighten the knee. Basic training requires the human body straight has two purposes, one is from the spiritual temperament point of view, so that people have a spiritual multiplication of the pleasing dashing and handsome, giving a person a vibrant youthful beauty to enjoy, the second is from the point of view of skills and technical training, in any case, the upper body due to the need for dance modeling and the appearance of the front leaning back, left and right out of the center of gravity must be kept strictly vertical, the center of gravity of the vertical is the human body in the upright The vertical center of gravity is necessary for the human body to be in an upright position, and this is the only way to make the dance go smoothly and smoothly. The shape of the body in the dance is ever-changing, only the center of gravity in the action is constantly adjusted, from which we can realize that the base training in the upright training is a kind of skill training.
★Standing: It seems to be similar to "straight", which is true, but it is superficial to understand only this way. The "stand" has its own meaning. First, in the overall concept of the human body, "stand" will bring a feeling of elevation, which is a kind of lightness, agility and the beauty of the spiritual temperament, which is similar to the "straight". The second refers to the waist of the standing, this is the "standing" of the true essence, must not be taken lightly. Because the waist is the largest part of the body in the range of activities.