Developpe Step in Advanced Ballet Dancing

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Summary: Learn how to perform the developpe step for advanced ballet dancing in this free instructional dance video.

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Developpe Step in Advanced Ballet Dancing

The next step we are going to concentrate on is developpe. Which means to develop. It is a large leg movement. Starting with your foot in fifith and then it comes up to sur le coudepied which means at the nake of the foot. Up to passe and goes to attitude then arrives at developpe and close. Sur le coudepied to the side and close, sur le coudepied to the back and then up back to the side and close. Now repeat on the other side. So the next step we want to concentrate on is developpe which means to developpe. Start in the fifth position. Heal to the toe and leg comes in to sur le coudepied which means at the nake of the foot. Bring it in to posse through attitude and into the full extension of your developpe back to tendu and back to fifith. Bring it into the side through passe. Close fifith and to the back dierer all the way to arabesque close and back to side developpe and close. After you are done let's take a circular sobre all the way down stretching your legs. To the side stretching through your hip and your arm. To the back and other side. Allonge the arm. Stretch. This is good to keep your leg turned out in the front as well as your heel pressed down to the floor in the back, stretching through the straight back. Turning that let in, stretching your so abs by bending the back knee pulling it in and sitting up straight. Stretching through straight legs and turn out and repeat all that to the other side.

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