Katie Rose Cunin and "the power of being Bindasized"

I was 14, in the summer intensive, and all of level A was in the small studio for pointe technique. That's when Miss Binda, sitting cross-legged beside the speaker (those feet!), said with a sharp flip of the wrist, "You know, fouettés should really start with a triple."

Nervous laughter from the room.

"They must. Do it. Go. Go. GO. Group one, now."

Hesitant fourth positions, leotard fixing, looking around... "Go. GO. Preparation, seven, EIGHT-!"

And you know what? Everyone in that room did a triple.

And once I knew I could begin with a triple, I never stopped beginning my fouettés from a triple.

Carinne, thank you for seeing in your dancers what they do not yet see in themselves. In so many ways, I am forever indebted to the power of being Bindasized.


~ Katie Rose Cunin