GatoGus

Mi drunkish balletish tip: Are you way too fat to get lifted?

So this is becoming a tradition,I’m so tired that I don’t feel to go out but I can write some ballet tip.

Classical ballet is all smoke and mirrors…We show something as beautiful and easy,but we had to do manage with a lot of effort and pain to look so simple.

I had notice that a majority of female dancers start to lose weight when their start partnering,I don’t know if they are afraid of hurting their partner or maybe scare of the fall.

But today,drunk but still a professional dancer (which means I lift women on regular basis) I want to tell you that you are wrong! That’s the problem to watch a movement before knowing how it works.

It is truth that we male dancers lift the girl but the girl is stiff and now how to manage their weight (Its hard to explain,usually that kind of procedures are explained in all-female classes) It is something made by two the male lift but the female impulses herself. Lifting a human being is hard,but the ballerina learns how to get lifted…Besides almost all pas de deux* with falls have locks (locks are movements that the audience don’t see but it secures the body of the boy and the girl…If the fall fails the lock is going to save you from falling to the floor) So girls don’t be afraid and please don’t starve yourself.we need you with all your stamina.

Boys I  know cause I lived that when you start partnering you may don’t have big muscles or force but don’t worry, partnering is not about strength is about skill, is about to apply little force in certain moment when the girl is impulsing herlself (People think that men do all the work but the half is on the woman) But a warning! You need to be very present and very aware of your movements.

That’s all doing your movements at the cue! The girl don’t have to be stick thin and the guy don’t have to be Mr. Universe!

It’s all smoke an mirrors!

*Believe me that Marianela,Svetlana,Elizabeth,Aurélie…They all have fall and raise this ballet,you fall you raise and do it again and again,and again…Just like your fouettés at class or your turns a la seconde. We can’t afford to ge traumatized! If we don’t dance we don’t eat! (always is important for a dancer to have a second career) 

Partnering can be very easy if every one knows what it has to do. You might know your  partner that same day and do your work…I might sound bad but this is about your job if your classmate didd’t made the homework is not your problem!

I really like to get more deep about partnering! But maybe tomorrow when I Get sober.

Best regard from México