Fixing bad posture is very important for the long-term health of your body. Apart from bad posture looking terrible, it is also detrimental to your health over the long term. It is easy to spot ballet dancers, they are the ones with the elegant and perfect postures, long necks, straight spines, beautifully positioned heads and … Read more
Unleash Your Full Potential Dancers! Don’t waste class time by chatting with friends, marking your work, or not giving your best. Going All Out In Your Dance Class In a recent class I was teaching, I challenged my students to give it their all in a full-out run-through of the combination. One student remembered some … Read more
In ballet developpe directly translated means developed or unfolded. When you do a ballet developpe, your working foot travels up the supporting leg, clearly going through the sur le cou-de-pied pointed position and then to a retiré position, before unfolding your leg out into a sustained extension. You could take the leg up to the … Read more
Having a ballet dancers body and having strength as well is a hard juggling act, but it is very possible. Why Does A Ballet Dancers Body Need Strength? Having a strong body is very important for ballet dancers and by having strength, we don’t mean you need to be able to pick up the heaviest … Read more
Here are some stretching exercises for dancers, and in particular ballet dancers. As dancers, stretching is an essential, but often neglected part of training. Flexible muscles lead to far fewer injuries and far greater ease of movement. The trick is to stretch gently and often. Try to stretch every day, as this is the fastest … Read more
The word frappe means to strike or knock and in battement frappe in ballet, this is exactly what the dancer is doing with the working foot on the ground. What is a Battement Frappe in Ballet? Some people think of a coffee break when hearing battement frappe, but in ballet, it is a step that … Read more
Let’s look at how to do a pirouette in ballet. A pirouette is a very quick spinning action on one leg and the word pirouette in French means Spinning Top. Pirouettes normally add excitement to a routine, but they don’t normally lead into another step like many of the other ballet exercises. All dancers dream … Read more
Rond de jambe a Terre literally means ’round of the leg across the floor.’ Rond de jambe en L’air is a circular action with the working leg in the air but is different from what we are discussing today. A straight working leg moves in an arc while the toes lightly touch the floor. The … Read more
Let’s look at the benefits of the pigeon pose for dancers and how you can use it to improve your dancing skills. The King Pigeon pose (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana) is one of Yoga’s super poses! This pose can truly be called a full-body pose because it targets so many muscles, and opens many different joints … Read more
Let’s take a look at calf and ankle flexibility exercises, as these can be very important for dancers. Having strong calves and ankles will help to prevent injury and also make your dancing look stronger and your allegro will improve in leaps and bounds. If you want to better understand the reason why your ankle … Read more