Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Varied to Infinity

I knew there were a lot of Arabesque listings in the Ballet Dictionary, but when the description said that  "The forms of arabesque are varied to infinity" I became concerned.  There are 23 different listings of Arabesques in this book, many of which mean the same thing, but just said differently based on which method you are studying.  The actual definition is:  "One of the basic poses in ballet, Arabesque takes its name from a form of Moorish ornament".



I thought long and hard how I was going to tackle this element of dance, and so I will go through each of the versions of an arabesque, but will combine the ones that are essentially the same thing.  So here we go...

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