Transferring weight to the balls of the feet gives legs more definition and contour, makes a woman's back arch, her rear curve out and her chest move forward.
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The YKM stance ( Chien Gung Ma ) resembles the familiar " ding gee ma " or Kung-Fu side horse but back arch is more pronounced and the shoulders are thrown forward with arms and hands protecting the chest and groin area.
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She knew how to stress the musical climaxes of Tchaikovsky's score : Every hop onto Woetzel's shoulder, every extreme back arch or every held arabesque was etched on the viewer's vision, emphasized not as feats in themselves but as exuberant dance images.
