BALLET LESSON 1

Welcome to my ballet lesson 1!

We will learn barre work today!

Plie

• first position,second position,third position,fourth position and fifth position

• meaning:bend your two legs

Battement Tendu

• we can do Battement Tendu in devant,ala seconde(to the side) and derriere

• through your demi pointe to pointe

• to strech your working leg

Battement Glisse

• sliding or gliding you working leg fast and sharp

• we have glisse devant,glisse to second,glisse derriere and glisse at first position

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Ronde Jambe

• we have two type of Ronde Jambe

• 1.Ronde Jambe A Terre:Ronde Jambe at floor

• 2.Ronde Jambe En L'air:Ronde Jambe on the air

• Ronde Jambe A Terre and Ronde Jambe En L'air have en dedans and en dehors

Battement Fondu

• like an ice cream melt

• squizzz your turn out very slow,like the ice cream is melting

• we have Battement Fondu devant,ala seconde(to seconde) and derriere

Developpe

• to develop or to unfold your working leg

• tips:after you develop your leg,you can have a extand move with a deep breath

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Adage

• when you doing adage,you must very slow,soft and controlled movement

• have many extand movement

• using your muscle to help you when you doing adage exercise

Petit Battement

• Petit Battement is a small beating action

• place your leg at your ankle

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Battment Frappe

• when you doing battment frappe,you must brush the floor

• when you strike,you must fast and sharp,like doing battment glisse

• we have devant,ala seconde and derrire

Battment Jete

• your working leg must quickly gets to the top of the position as apposed to slowly

• it's a quicker grand battement jete leads to a better grand allegro

Battment pique

• pique means your working leg pointing the floor and pickup fastly

• we have pique devant,pique to second and pique derriere

Grand Battement

• Grand means big in french

• throwing your working leg into the air from your hip and brings it back down to a position,normaly is fifth position

Battement Lent

• Battment Lent is a slow move of grand battment

• we often do battment lent with doing arabesque

Thank you very much!

see you in next ballet lesson,bye!!!