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By Meastro Greenwood / May 9, 2012 /

Interactive with maestro Greenwood

I maestro Greenwood needs your help.

I want to start an open forum where can I concentrate on your specific questions about ballet. My idea and philosophy is to share as much information as possible on this website. www.onlineballetclass.com. Please help me out on this interactive experience on my website. The aim is to start an open forum and community. So exprereinced points or other ideas are very welcome. Please feel free to react on this link. Lets us make the ballet world a better place.

please reply too this page.

Comments (9)

ReplyMay 11, 2012 / 7:41 am
Natalia Palma Biro

Very good idea!
ReplyMay 14, 2012 / 4:02 am
wade walthall

I find your videos very informative. Clear, concise, and correct. Not only do they validate many of those ideas and concepts I use to teach, they also inspire me to renew my own skills and knowledge. I would like to hear more of what you think of line. I would especially find it interesting to hear about lifting the leg to the back in arabesque and attitude along with placement of the pelvis and hip. I have seen and heard so many opinions all over the world and always a find differences in instruction. I would love to hear what you have to say. You seem to be a marvelous teacher.

Thank you for making this web site and all the videos!

Wade Walthall
- ReplyJune 13, 2012 / 9:28 am
  admin
  
  Arabesque Line
  I find this a very hard question too answer correctly. One cannot generalize on such a delicate subject. For the main elements as you well know are the anatomical construction of the person in question. But I will try to my best ability. I will begin by saying many dancers around the world are sacrificing there “squarely shape of the hips and shoulders ” to get their working legs higher; they open their hips as much as possible to the working side and they bring their opposite shoulder to the front; now we can say that they create a square in this position too; but they should push the opposite shoulder to the back too ones personal capabilities? Nice idea, but very difficult to master. I am a great believer in the functionality of a position or step. So when one is holding a position or moving through the required position or it is a transitional phrase. I believe it is first important to use crossed force, meaning an inner spiral, connecting the leg to the opposite shoulder. In short the chosen position then becomes a tool. For sure the student has to lift out of the supporting hip and open the working hip slightly in order to get the leg in the correct position. At the same time that it opens, it has to be controlled so that it doesn’t fly away from you, so counter pressure to keep the hip down, but not so much that it produces “turn-in” on the working leg. As we all know a lack of strength in arabesque could be in your mid back muscles, in your deep abdominal muscles, in your hamstrings, and in your hip extensor muscles.
  I believe one can always take a few steps back and re-adjust. Start from Tendu, and then work your way up to a 45-degree arabesque, trying to keep your hips and shoulders perfectly centred. Eventually you’ll build up to 90 degrees—then more. Taking slower, step by step gradual steps will ensure that ones alignment is only compromised as much as is necessary and never more.
  Also, this method will strengthen your entire body, making the arabesque easier to sustain.
  
  Maestro Greenwood
ReplyMay 20, 2012 / 5:13 pm
Anna

I would like to learn more about teaching to achieve a good good penche,

so I would be very pleased if you could make a video giving some tips.
- ReplyMay 21, 2012 / 11:46 am
  admin
  
  Dear Anna, I am happy for your request. We are starting our new filming program so will keep your question in mind. I think its a very important issue. What are your concerns for you personally. Maybe I can help you also directly. Thank you for your question, we are happy your joining the community of dance lovers on Online Ballet Class. Respectfully yours Maestro Greenwood
ReplyMay 31, 2012 / 9:28 pm
source

I was wanting to know if you ever considered modifying the design of your site? It is very well written; I really like what youve got to say. But maybe you could include a little more in the way of content so people might connect to it better. Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or two graphics. Maybe you can space it out better?
- ReplyAugust 20, 2012 / 4:11 pm
  admin
  
  We have done so now considering the website. What is your opinion now if I may ask?
  Ballet master Greenwood
ReplyDecember 03, 2012 / 12:40 am
Matilde

Hello Master,

I really apreciate what you´re doing with this website. It is a lot of help for those who want to learn at an old age about the facinating world of ballet, and do not have a lot of oportunities to take proper clases. I´m from Chile, South America and I have a question I know you would answer rapidly based on your knowledge.

When I do spagat on the floor, do my knees have to be looking up to the roof, or do my legs have to be in the en dheors position?

Thanks!

Matilde
- ReplyDecember 03, 2012 / 3:21 am
  Meastro Greenwood
  
  Dear Matide, first thank you for your kind words. Yes, the world of ballet is a wonderful gift to us all. If you are stretching your splits in a la seconde then the hips should be as rotated as possible En Dehor. If you are doing the normal splits one can do both. Meaning if you do the spilts, En dehor you are stretching different muscles than if you are stretching En Dedan. The front leg you would be stretching the Biceps femoris, Semitendinosis and Semimembranosis, if En dehor or En Dedan. Only with rotation rolling in or out, there would be more stretch on the outside group or inside group. If the back leg is turned-out then you would be stretching mostly the adductor groups, if you want to stretch the Tensor fascia latae and Adductor magnus then you can roll the back leg inwards for some time. Try not to stay there to long. I would say about three times 20 seconds each side. Over stretching can be counter productive. Maybe check the location of the muscles. I think it will help. I am at present filming a new learning program called personal ballet master. It will be a series of programs, one will be on the splits.
  I hope that helped?
  Good luck Maestro Greenwood.

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