-consensus for the Great Crunches Debate: crunches for abdominal knitting; cambrEs for the back of the trunk
-rib cage placement & separation from lower body; for eg: when standing in 5th, in pirouettes, pique arabesques, and ouvert to 1st arabesque
-how to close rib cage: flick (causes involuntary muscle contraction); release breath; meeting point of X-band
-3 ways of breathing: chest, diaphragm, and lateral expansion of ribs
-frappe frappe frappe beat CHANGE
-remnants of NYC momentarily slow down music
-what happens on count X, where X ∈ ℕ? PliE.