Long and Strong: How to Find Effortless, Extended Lines - Dance

Working towards “longer lines” as a dancer can be complex. After all, you can’t actually make your limbs longer, and trying to is essentially “striving for something outside of yourself,” says Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater rehearsal director Ronni Favors. The aesthetic attached to long lines can also sometimes be unhealthy: “Long lines” can be a euphemism for thinness.

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