Twyla Tharp

A bar is a set regimen of exercises that are developed –

to strengthen the structure of the body to basically approach the jumps to gain height in the air.

for the men, for the women if they're working on point, the strength in the legs and the torso to be able to support that weight in the little area down here.

And so it's developed essentially from Mars evolved, but basically their format is brilliantly designed and begins with usually plié, which the terminology is French.

which means to fold.

So you're folding the body and the plie.

You're folding, you're going down, and the positions are first, second, third, fourth, and fifth, okay?

First, you have actually one center that comes off of here and here, or you're off to this side, or you're off to that side.

But if you're working very rigorously, you're working to develop that single center in first.

Second is a much more evolved kind of hierarchy

muscular kind of situation where it's being supported from the torso and the leg muscles.

more than from the feet.

The third position is never used because third looks like a bad fifth, so it's just been eliminated, which is kind of too bad because I actually do use third, but not if I think it's at a moment where it could be judgmentally determined.

Actually, it was an uncrossed fifth.

Oh, dear.

But in any case, so third weight is somewhere between openly distributed and

cross through a single center between the two legs, okay?

This is the fourth, right?

And the fifth, that fourth is closed, so that it's just a reduced, even higher center.

Okay, in these positions, first, second, usually not third, first, second, fourth, and fifth, plié, first to bend, to fold.