Embodied Threads · Ballet Lab
Study I
Alignment & Placement
The Vertical Line
Technique is not control over the body.
Technique is cooperation with it.
The Through-Line
Where the dancer learns to organize around a single, invisible line — the foundation beneath every other study.
Four Rooms
Every study moves through the same four rooms — idea, body, work, and reflection.
The Idea
The Principle
How the body organizes itself before it moves — the plumb line, and why placement is something you return to, never something you hold.
The Body
The Anatomy
The plumb line and the natural curves; the foot tripod where the line meets the floor; the first glimpse of turnout in the hip.
The Work
The Practice
Arrive and find vertical, then carry it to the barre and into the center — same body, no barre.
The Page
The Reflection
Studio Notes — where you become your own teacher and keep the record no correction could give you.
The full study lives in the folio.
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