"Sorry!"

"What happened?"

"I slapped him."

-how we welcome new students to the studio

-Theme: Variations on Jeté Passé
-pas de cheval: purpose is to work on (a) the shape of the articulating foot, & (b) turnout; immediately wrap pinkie toe (heel for en dedans) around the ankle
-force of turn wants to come from the legs, rather than from the desire to turn
-the head is a weighty object; bend all the way down in forward cambré; maintain integrity of the line in back cambré
-Poses: A Prelude to Rond de Jambe
-we would like pointed toes for frappés (why?)
-at center, exercises that have been worked out in detail by many thinkers over hundreds of years; they are anything but random; it is a language to be learned
-paper planes

The feeling in today's class is of not listening to music for a very long time, and then suddenly hearing a song. So happy :@)