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[i]> > How do great male dancers seem to pause when they are doing grand > jete?It's a combination of physics and psychology. The dancer moves his legs into a split as he approaches the highest point in the jete and sometimes raises his arms as well. Now, his center of gravity still follows the parabolic path it must. But moving his arms and legs that way shifts the center of gravity in his body upward (that's the physics part). So his torso and head *don't* follow that parabolic path; the path is flattened. But after a lifetime of seeing flying objects--balls, darts, crockery--and having internalized that parabolic path (that's the psychology part), we see this flattened trajectory and it makes us think the dancer is just floating in midair.This is a condensed explanation; I hope it's clear for all that. You can get the whole story in Kenneth Laws's book, Physics, Dance, and the Pas de Deux (Schirmer Books, 1994).Tom Parsons <ul><li><a href="http://www.panix.com/~twp" target="_top">Tom's Page</a></ul> [/i]

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