Turning Out & Arm Positions in Ballet Dancing

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Hi! My name is Connie Hale and thanks for joining me here at expertvillage.com. Today we will be going over some basic classical ballet moves. I want to quickly touch upon a few things that we would like to correct and avoid when we are doing classical ballet. This is something that a judge if ever competing would be very very particular upon. Number 1 is turning out. When we say turn out it is starting from the hip. You need to turn out from your hip. Now your hip is a socket, you know that. You can turn it in and out. Okay. A lot of people tend if there for example doing a tendu to the side or a point to the side, they would have their knee facing to the side. This is not turned out. To turn out the leg you take it from the hip socket and turn the entire leg so that the leg is now turned out so this is not turned out, this is turned out. If we are facing to the front, pointing front like this is not turned out. See how my knee is pointed to the ceiling. You turn it from the hip socket; now it is turned out. Not turned out, turned out. To the back same thing back. If your knee is pointed to the ground, this is not turned out. This is turned out. So incorrect, correct. So again turning out is from the leg. Now let's talk about our feet. When we are in tendu position and you are pointing your foot, you need to point with your entire foot. We like to avoid what we call sickling of the foot. A sickled foot looks simply like this. With crunching of the toe, this is a sickled foot. This is not correct. A correct way to point your foot in ballet is using the entire foot and pointing as such. So this is sickled, crunched toes and this is pointed. Incorrect, correct. Let's talk about some correct arm positions. We don't like droopy elbows. In our first position, it is the round as if you are holding two balls right here with your hands. This is incorrect, this is correct. It takes a while to get the arm straight to hold them up. Keep the elbows up. I want you to picture as laying them flat on a table. So this is incorrect, correct; incorrect, correct. All right. Thanks for brushing up on your do's and don't s of classical ballet.

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