6 Vaganova's Port de Bras

6 Port de Bras based on the Vaganova's Methodology
Source: Basic Principles of Classical Ballet by A.Vaganova
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[@cartomancycarmen]

My favorite part of watching dancers! I never knew what this was called but I believe it could help all women be more graceful

[@joannar2451]

Beautifully done, a true exemplary performance of these!

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[@Polina_Abramova]

Thank you. Beautiful and clear

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[@Cloudopatra]

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[@giorgiaarrighi368]

L’unico video che ho trovato con i 6 pordebra. Grazie 😊

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[@joshuabrooksher2582]

Note - each of the numbered port de bras should end in the same position in which they start. The 3rd port de bras arms should open to second as the dancer finishes the bend to the back. The fourth port de bras arms should be level with eachother at their full extension. The preparation for the 6th port de bras does not include a slide of the flat foot on the ground as this "chasse" movement is post classical is not derived from the technical constructions of Vaganova.

[@joannar2451]

Preparation to 6th PDB does not include "a slide" - what are you talking about? The temp lie at the beginning? I don't see a chasse here ("Chasse" means in French "to chase" and it's a movement in space, not a static step). Everything she showed is exactly how I was thought by Russian professors during my nine-year ballet school and another six at the Academy for professional ballet teachers in Vaganova technique.

[@joshuabrooksher2582]

@@joannar2451 I am more than qualified as a graduate of Rudolf Kharatian and Nikolai Morozov's classes and former principal performer for The Kirov Ballet's North American tour and former AAD of The Kirov Academy of Ballet to tell you that perhaps you should review the textbook for VARB because this flat footed slide on the floor is not a part of the preparation for 6th PDB. I called it a "chasse" in quotations because that is the common term for those who perform it as part of classical work when it is not. Everything I said as corrections to the mistakes of these videos is absolutely correct.

[@juanjosefarina]

@@joshuabrooksher2582 Pas chassé is a very old step that is already notated in Feuillet's book of 1700; what she shows is the "shag" to pose croisée back (shag is the russian word for step, which is a term in the russian school since Agrippina's time that has been codified in SEVERAL books of Nikolai Tarasov, Vera Kostrovitskaya, Nadezhda Bazarova, Barbara Mey, Lyudmila Safronova, etc.), which is the same that is done in temps lié par terre of first year (similar to how Agrippina described it in her book). Some authors also call this "glissé", though they are the less (speaking always of russians). Technique-wise temps lié is not done with a plié in the open position in St. Petersburg, Agrippina must have changed that during her latter years, but in Moscow, where Tarasov was director, temps lié kept being done with a plié on the open positions (II and IV). Her book shows temps lié with a plié, and her documentary of 1946 also shows temps lié with the plié (though it was filmed in Moscow, many things are diferent to her book and St. Petersburg's school).
In her book, she doesn't describe the préparation for her "grand port de bras" (that's how she called it), but this step into pose croisée back is exactly how I've been taught. I've seen some teachers simply prepare the arms into big pose croisée with opening the back leg croisée back.
About IV port de bras, all my St. Petersburg teachers have taught me it slightly above, though I agree her arms are not nice in that one (and in a few other positions and movements).

[@bobloblaw9679]

@@joshuabrooksher2582 excellent pedigree, but sometimes people are mistaken. agree with @juanjosefarina on this one....

[@joshuabrooksher2582]

​@juanjosefarina What is shown in this video is not a step to pose croise derriere as preparation for the 6th or grand port de bras, it is a flat footed slide on the floor that is a modernist interpretation of the court dance step pas de patineurs that is often mistakenly called a chasse. An important note for nomenclature is that one should not have two different steps with the same name or two different names used for the same step. Temps lie does not step onto a bent knee. Otherwise, it would simply be a plie in the transitory position (in this case, 4th). The Russian word "шаг" is also not used for the step that is shown in this video. It is more commonly used for a walking or running preparation that has the leg extended or thrown out in front of the dancer with a fully stetched foot. This flat footed slide was not performed on the stage as ballet until the late 1910's and so was not considered classical in nature and was not codified as part of the school of classical dance.