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Should I Spring or Press to Relevé in a Ballet Pirouette?

June 30, 2011 by Lauren Warnecke

If you press, the upper body and center of gravity (CoG) needs to move over the leg, and if you spring, the supporting leg meets your CoG in the middle. Which do you prefer? In this post Lauren Warnecke explores the benefits and mechanics of both to provoke thought and conversation.

Filed Under: Blog, Dancing, Technique Tagged With: Alys Shee, Angel Corella, balance in pirouette, Cecchetti, Cecchetti Counsel of America, Cecchetti Method, center of gravity, help with turns, improving pirouettes, pirouette, press to releve, question about pirouettes, spring to releve, standing leg, starting a pirouette, supporting foot, supporting leg, the right way to turn, turns

9 Tips for Improving Pirouettes

March 15, 2010 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

5. “Connect” your arms to your back – you should feel and imagine width across the back and shoulder blades and the arms should maintain their position (don’t “wind-up” for a turn)
6. Take off from a properly placed and expansive plié for power in the turn.
7. Strengthen your ankles supporting the relevé – if you are wobbly, sickled, or pronated, this will ruin your turn.
8. Mentally, make a choice to come down from the turn, don’t “let” gravity make the choice for you.

Filed Under: Blog, Dancing, Technique Tagged With: how to, how to improve pirouettes, kenneth laws, mental, multiple pirouettes, Physics, physics of dance, pirouettes, tips, turning, turns

En Dehors, Out the Door

January 12, 2010 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

En dehors and en dedans! Frequently misspelled and endlessly confused, let’s go over these dance directions! A bird’s eye view helps to illustrate the sometimes puzzling terminology.

Filed Under: Blog, Dancing, Featured, Terminology Tagged With: dance basics, direction, Glossary of ballet, memory device, pirouette, remembering, rond de jambe, rotation, standing leg, Terminology, turns, working leg

Teaching Piqué Turns

January 25, 2009 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

Given my recent Piqué Turn How-To, I thought I would expand into my process for teaching this turn.

Filed Under: Blog, Teaching Tagged With: dance classes, education, teaching basics, turning, turns, working with students

Defining and Dissecting a Piqué Turn

January 22, 2009 by Nichelle (owner/editor)

What is a Piqué Turn? Generally when a dancer is asked to perform a piqué turn in class, he/she understands that it is likely they are being asked to perform a traveling turn that begins with a step onto a straight leg, as demonstrated at the start of this combination (note: this video is an […]

Filed Under: Beyond the Bubble, Blog, Dance Media, Dancethropology, Dancing, Technique, Terminology Tagged With: alignment, dance basics, tips, turning, turns

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