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10 Things You Should Know Before Beginning Ballet Class

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Uploaded by on Jun 27, 2011

Hi everyone!
Here are a few term explanations and tips for those of you starting ballet class for the first time.
Good luck!

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  • Wait wait wait... Dégagé is when you just point your toes and stick your leg out ON the ground. Battement jeté is when you lift your leg OFF the ground. Tendu basically just means strait :) (tendu as oppose to plié)

    I live in France so the system may be different !

    Anyways, you are SO beautifull !!

  • @MissBouclette1 this is a very good point! with Russian, French, and Italian methods all sort of floating around here in America, sometimes the definition of terms is slightly different, just depending on where you are! Note to everyone: it's def worth it to invest it a ballet dictionary that lists all three methods. :)

  • Hi, when is too late to start ballet!? I´m 15.. :S 

  • @cutezucarita balletandlipgloss is right on target! :D

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  • this video is so helpful! I love it!!! I think you should do one on port de bras. I'm really bad at that lol ;)

  • Im 17 and im interested in ballet, so you believe its too late? -- love your video!

  • i love this video

  • I love you, Ally. You're such an inspiration! Please update as soon as possible! I need more ally ballet! :D

  • im 13 and i can dance, quite flexible but i havent done ballet since i was about6, can i still do classes now???

  • i love your vids but you look like your 14 years old

  • just started ballet for adults (for exercise and stretching) you're so much better than my teacher! I know I won't be a ballerina, but I still want to learn the proper way, you explain everything very well! My teacher just shows and that's it, get on with it! please come to UK and teach me, you're great! thanks for all your tips and videos, they've helped me a lot.

  • ok so i have a bad habit of forcing my turn out can i do to stop that?oh and my nees pop in plie.I have no clue why?and how can we stop twisting from our nees? and how do we now were turing out from our hips?

  • just watched this again, what a great video! Would love to see more instructional videos like this -- and more floor pointe! -- in the future.

  • You covered the basics well, however I have a problem with your fingers and arm explanation... when you form your fingers the proper way your middle finger should be lower than the rest of your fingers. Your thumb and middle finger should almost touch, but not quite.

    And for your arms in second, your elbows should be lifted so that it's like a slope from your shoulders, then elbows, then wrists. Yours arms should feel like they're reaching from your back

    good job though on everything else!!

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