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Advanced Ballet Dancing Steps

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Learn advanced ballet dancing steps and moves, with expert tips from a professional ballet dancer, in this free series of instructional dance videos.

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Summary: A form sweeps lightly across the stage, gracefully arching arms and neck, balancing posture with poise effortlessly—this is the image that ballet dancers the world over spend a lifetime creating. They train their bodies into submission, investing years in dance schools, perfecting their jeté, their pas de chat, their relevé. When everything comes together, the ballet is a spectacle of wonder, telling us the timeless stories of history and the human heart through measured expressions of fluid and beautiful motion.

Ballet has changed in a few ways over the course of its history, with one school of thought giving way to another; yet, usually the fundamental ideas remain unchanged. In this free dance instruction video series, build on that sturdy tradition by learning some advanced steps and moves. Our expert will train you in the subtle gestures and fantastic movements that allow for a rich and complete expression of form. Learn the developpe step, the pique, the fondue, battement, the pirouette, the ronde de jambe, and other important ballet dance steps. You’re sure to increase your appreciation and enjoyment of dance, as well as help the audience to feel the intensity of passion, sorrow, joy or ecstasy that ballet was created to help express.

About the Expert

Expert: Samantha Marcella has been dancing for thirteen years. She grew up in Las Vegas where she participated in dance competitions and later attended the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, Visual, and Performing Arts. At the Academy, she received training in Limon, Horton, and Graham modern techniques, ballet, pointe, and jazz dance techniques, as well as theatrical training. She graduated cum laude from Chapman University in Orange, California with her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Dance Performance in May of 2007. All four years at Chapman, she was recognized for Outstanding Performance as well as receiving the Quiet Excellence Award, and the Most Likely to Teach at Chapman Recognition. Currently Samantha dances professionally for Sean Greene in the Gallimaufry & Greene modern dance company.

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