Bar stretches have been very helpful to me and I still find myself performing the sequence after class at home. Starting the stretch, the feet must be in first position and heels together with toes apart. We then Pas de deux to get the leg up to the bar standing nice and square, hips square, then with two Développé and then we stretch so that our nose goes towards the lifted knee. We then come right up and maintain breathing in and out as we stretch then we pile. The knee then should go over the toes and we turn and do a side stretch with hips squared, shoulder squared, and we do a lateral stretch. We then stretch to the sides, with two demi-plié again to the right leg that's on the bar turned out and the toes are pointed and stretching away from the bar, and the leg comes back to passé.
To perform a perfect degage, we start in first position with the preparation of our arms. Degage comes slightly off the floor with the leg extended beautifully and stretched with well pointed foot, then to the side, the arm must follow and to the back with a Arrière and then we repeat the same step to the side which again follows the routine of on quad meaning front foot on side to the side; then to finish off the step, we must conclude with the preparation of arms with a pile.
Rand de jambre en rear: means on the floor. To perform this step, we start in our first position with the preparation of the arms and we point the foot on the floor from front to the side to the back. With about quarters moves of the point foot, we stop on each point. The step is then continued without stopping and doing half of rand de jambre and we lift slightly in the air with the foot brushed to a point la ere and we finish in first and the arm comes down with a plié and that’s how to perform rand de jambre.
Passé developpe is another interesting step that I found easy in a way to perform but not all the time, because I sometimes tend to shift to my standing leg, which is something to avoid. To start, we stand with the heels together and toes turned out, the hips should be nice and equal, making sure one hip is not higher than the other. After executing the passé, take the leg up slowly and be careful keeping the hip square, then stretch the leg out in a developpe position, which means to develop. After finishing to front, do the side with the knees straightened and the leg comes down. We then passé to the back slowly with passé developpe into a nice la ere position and back to the side position passé developpe and we finish in first position.
When we started our Grande Battma, we started with smiles on our faces and we end them doing the same. Starting from our first position with heels together toes turned out, we do the preparation movement for the arms and we extend our right leg straightforward and up in the air with two eight counts and the leg is straight. The foot points as soon we lift off the floor, we do the same to the side keeping the shoulders and hips nice and squared, making sure the left foot supporting stays in a turned out position and we finish to the side. With the front, side, backside, the arms come down demi plié.
In conclusion, more steps have been learned in class, but the above steps are some of my favorite steps in ballet class; and I hope to continue dancing after this session.
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