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Show 64 THE CODE OF TERPSICHORE. heels is the length of the foot. In the third position the feet must be only half crossed. Bending in the first position, fig. 4, plate II. N.B. The positions on the toes of the first, third and fourth positions, and the bendings in the four others, are omitted not for the sake of increasing the number of plates ; these positions are very easily understood, and executed without the assistance of plates. Method of holding one's self in practising, fig. 5, plate II. Physical construction of the close-legged pupil, fig. 5, plate III. Physical construction of the bow-legged pupil, fig. 4, plate III. N.B. The delineator has somewhat exaggerated in the lines of these figures, for the purpose of better exhibiting to the pupil those defective constructions. A, dancer at the second position, in the air and on the heel, fig. 5, plate II. A dancer at the second position, in the air and on the toes, fig. 1, plate VI. A dancer at the second position in the air, forwards on the toes (side view), fig. 1, plate IV. A dancer at the fourth position in the air, forwards on the toes (front view), fig. 2, plate IV. A dancer at the fourth position in the air, backwards (side view), fig. 3, plate IV. Positions of the legs in poses, and in different attitudes, plates V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX. Positions of the legs in arabesques, plates X, XI, and XII. N.B. In arabesques, and several other attitudes, the feet must not be entirely turned ; if they were, these positions would lose their gracefulness. |