![]() With the accent to the front or back, you can ask them to stretch just a little extra before racing to catch the time on the next count! Tempo rubato is a delight in RDJ. If you're interested in teaching your students about it, one of the best exercises to use it in, is accented rond de jambes (RDJ). Tempo rubato is a cheeky little musical trick that delights the viewer when done well! Action Plan ![]() Truly that is what tempo rubato is, in a sense, playing with the music it's like teasing the beat! ![]() When I draw out count 8 of the RDJ section and a dancer is drawing out that count out as well, we just become in sync slow-motion instead of being fabulously musical and playing with the time. I've had occasions where I've used it in between ronde de jambes and bending/port de bras and too late I've noticed a dancer is also using tempo rubato before pushing into the ending. If you have a pianist it can become almost too much if you have a pianist who is using tempo rubato as well ( FYI: pianists should only be using tempo rubato minimally for your dancers in the earlier training years of ballet). The good news is, this is musicality training that you can do with recorded music, no pianist required. Musicality is integral in order to demonstrate this skill well since they will actually be ' off' the music temporarily and without musicality, they'll never get back ' on' the music, it is at this moment that your musician is slowly dying inside. The use of tempo rubato is an indicator of a musical and mature dancer since many young dancers are unable to imagine this, never mind actually do it skilfully. You know when you're watching a truly musical dancer dance and they stretch/reach on a note, almost too long, and then quick as a fox make up the time to catch up to the music? THAT is tempo rubato! It's a magical moment when you witness it done well. The time that is drawn out in one spot MUST be made up in another spot that is tempo rubato. *If a song has tempo rubato in it, it should end up being exactly the same length of time as if one had played it in straight time, with no tempo rubato. So, in all seriousness, tempo rubato is totally awesome and worth a blog post for sure, so, on the recommendations of a current student of mine in The OMTC, here we are. Robbing time from measure 4 to hold out measure 3 longerĪcross music today, Whether work or play,ĭid you do it? Did you actually sing?! I hope so! I had some good fun making it up! With holding one note extra long and making up the time after, Musicality tempo tempo rubato training musical dancers Nov 26, 2020
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