Practiced continuously for months and years these stretching exercise result in the ultra-hyperextension and flexibility necessary to achieve the desired alignment and the fluid quality of movement. The hyperextension of the fingers and elbow joints make it possible to create a sequential flow of movement beginning in the finger tips and continuing along the entire arm. There is an increased range of movement which contributes to the beauty of alignment and the effectiveness of dramatic expression in the dance sequences and dance drama. Mr. Georges Groslier an observer of the Khmer court dance in the yare 1913 noted in his book Danseuses Cambodgiennes Anciennes et Modernes, that the highest degree of curve that he saw was that of a forty-year old dance master whose hyperextension of the elbow created an angle on the back of the arm of 40 degrees. He believed that women and children of yellow skin had a natural proclivity to such hyperextension in the joints which was simply increase by the stretching exercises (1913: 32).
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