There are things that everyone dreads hearing:
- Your boss says you need to work late.
- Your dentist says you're overdue for a cleaning.
- Your ballet instructor says she just drank a caffeinated beverage.
Thursday, our instructor casually mentioned that she'd really been dragging, and had gotten a cup of coffee before class to perk her up. This sparked an animated discussion with another student regarding the relative caffeine content of coffee versus green tea. I got straight to the point and commented, "We're screwed."
Years ago I came across this thing called a "flic flac" in magazine or web articles. These articles commonly opened with scary statements like, "Flic flac confuses even the most advanced dancers." I was just getting back into ballet and was very much a beginner so I didn't bother reading any further. I figured it'd be a long time before I encountered it in class, if ever.
I'm still a relative beginner some 10 years in. So it was something of a surprise when "ever" came Thursday evening. My first reaction was, "Are you serious??" Then she demonstrated it without the turn and that part seemed really easy, like an abbreviated pas de cheval. She said that those who knew how to do a flic flac could do it with the turn, while the rest of us could skip it.
Now that it's been introduced, I'm sure we're going to see this again. I went hunting for a decent explanation of this step and came up with this video on YouTube. I think I'm going to spend some time studying this step.
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