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The Ballet Barre - The inevitable Ballet Basics

About this Lesson

  • Type: Video Tutorial
  • Length: 19:36
  • Media: Video/mp4
  • Posted: 01/30/2009
  • Use: Watch Online & Download
  • Download: MP4 (iPod compatible)
  • Size: 95 MB

The Ballet Barre - The inevitable Ballet Basics with Star Ballerina Kusha Alexi!

Kusha Alexi, principal at the legendary Hamburg Ballet, give you a highly informative and entertaining view of the basics in ballet

Contents:

1.The five positions throughly explained both for arms and legs

2.All you need to take care of in plié

3.Battement tendu analyzed

4.Battement Dégagé (Battement Jeté) analyzed

5.Rond de jambe par terre and ron de jambe en l'air fully analyzed

6.Battement Fondu analyzed

7.Battement Frappé analyzed

8.En cloche taken appart

9.Adagio as a movement and in a combination

10.Grand battement analyzed

11.The most common balances in a barre, and how to do them

12.EXTRA, the four arabesque positions

With Kusha Alexi, every step at the barre will be clearer to you than ever before.

This is the perfect complement to the full classes.

About this Author

Ingve Groven
Ingve Groven
7 lessons
Joined:
12/29/2008

Hi.

I used to be a professional dancer of ballet and modern dance.
I danced in modern ballet companies as well as in classical ballet companies until a few years ago.

Now I live and teach ballet in Barcelona at different schools and professional companies here.

I hope you enjoy the information I can provide, and the quality of picture and sound.

All exercises are recorded with professional dancers and live music.

Enjoy;-)
Ingve

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