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Beginning Ballet Steps : How to Do Ballet Chaines Turns

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Uploaded by on Jan 18, 2008

Learn how to do ballet chain movements in this free dance lesson video.

Expert: Eileen O'Brien
Bio: Eileen O'Briens staff at Suncoast Dance Academy in St. Petersburg, Fl., provides professional Dance training and performance experience in a nurturing environment.
Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

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  • These are soutenus en tournents.

    Chainees need 3 key ingredients:

    1. You need to spot.

    2. The arms need to stay in first while turning.

    3. The legs should be in a third or fifth position with the centre of your 'core' (torso, head and abdominals) balanced over the legs, although they can be performed in first (rare circumstances).

    However, this could be a different syllabus, although I highly doubt there are syllibi out there doing chainees like that. I could be wrong though.

  • this was a good demonstration but the arms dont usually move unless its a "working chaine" but they should stay together .

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  • her arm positions are horrible she needs a real guide or teacher

  • That is um.... Quite worrying to say the least. EXPERT village??

  • What the heck was that?! That wasn't a chaine. That was a disaster. I know six year olds that can do better chaines.

  • @Dunntosh um, i am in dance and we are doing Ballet at the moment and for our Chainees we start with our arms in third and our right pointed toe in front then we step, open our arms to 2nd and spin on relevai ( i am not exactly sure how to spell this :/) with our arms in first and yes we spot, but the thing is we do it like diagonaly across the floor not sideways or forward.

  • @daddysgirl4567 Hey! Hobos have feelings too!

  • @girlsdancers4 Nope. Neither teacher nor pupil has a clue. Not a clue.

  • Eileen O'Brien: "those are beautiful chainees." Well, she's lying, isn't she? I honestly think she wouldn't know a chainee if it came up and bit her on her ass.

  • I saw the clip then I saw the comments. We can't all be wrong. I'm going to contact Youtube and get these videos removed.

  • Okay, last time I took ballet lessons was when I was 7, and even I can tell you this was bad. She has freaking hitchhiker thumbs in her second positon! You're a ballerina, not a scruffy hobo looking for a ride!

  • errr turnout?

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