Ballet with Craig Hall
LENGTH: 46 min. LEVEL: Advanced SPACE: Large
Craig Hall's class is short and sweet — it’s packed with fantastic exercises and insights. Throughout, Craig’s focus is musicality, which he connects to ideas of physical rubato (momentarily withheld action) and the refinement of an action’s quality. For example, he cautions that the working leg in rond de jambe should not strike out “like a karate kick” but advance as if to tap a balloon. The combination of continuous rhythmic variety and easily visualized kinesthetic analogies gives the class a streaming poetry, reinforced by the musical wit of pianist Robert Boston.
Music: Robert Boston
Dancers: Rachel Hutsell and Aaron Sanz
Category: Ballet