Ballet
On the 29th of July, at 1:20 pm, Room 13 were heading down to the dance room in the PAC (performing arts centre), for ballet. Every year at Balmacewen Intermediate, the Royal Society of Ballet, up in Auckland sends a representative down to the school to teach the year seven students ballet.
Soon Hannah, the dance instructor had us all running around, and when she said stop, we all had to stop.We played a number of different variations, and then all lined up in 3 rows. Then Hannah began teaching us the 5 different feet positions, and after that the 5 arm positions. She told us about the 3 most important things in ballet (posture, turnout and pointer toes), and also impressed upon us the importance of strength and flexibility. She taught us sautes, plies, tendus,ton-leve, enchainments and port-de-bras.After that we covered mime and choreography, and at the end we had a talk about ballet shoes. Everyone in room 13 enjoyed learning about ballet, and we look forward to doing it again sometime.
By Daniel Scott.
