Piano Technique: A styled staccato with a dipping wrist

http://arioso7.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/piano-technique-a-styled-staccato-with-a-dipping-wrist/

I find that adding supple wrist dips to staccato within any dynamic range helps to style and shape lines, phrases, etc.

Here's it's first executed within a scale framework. A cat cameo appearance is the opener.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXKU2qKdaMw

Now a sample of shaped staccato in the soft range, played after a nicely contoured legato. (just snip it out) This is preceded by a direct forearm staccato example.

http://youtu.be/lM3q3qI6KH4

Basically, staccato can be expressed in many shapes and forms depending upon what the music dictates.