Fountain Arms and Legs

A dancing fountain a la the Bellagio in Las Vegas is a perfect visual analogy of how to move your extremities in ballet (the link will take you to a wonderful example of what I'm talking about)! Energy initiating from the core. One hundred percent energy shooting out from root to tip. Limb bending organically with the joint closest to the center leading the motion. A terminal spray of fingers or toes completing the line with both strength, delicacy, and a continuity of line. I say and think these things all the time with slightly different picture representations. The most common ones my ballet teachers have used are of moving your limbs through water or pudding or molasses. Marc Brewer has a workshop on "organic styling" and uses visuals of trees. This analogy is both very Bruce Lee and very high tech. "Be water" is very old. Be a synthesized synchronized dancing fountain concert is very new. We often say water dances. Zenzouk master Ry'El has observed that water is the easiest element for me to adopt, my go to way of moving. But oh! to move with the strength of a shooting moving sprinkler system!