Quick but effective exercises to super-charge your technique and training, even with a busy schedule.
Without a doubt, the most common exercise recommended for improving foot strength is pointing into a theraband. While it’s not a bad exercise per se, it’s one of my least favorite exercises for feet and ankle strength. Why do I dislike this exercise so much? Well, mainly because it’s simply not very effective. It’s also […]
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Ballet port a bras is one of the most captivating and iconically elegant aspect of ballet. Port a bras, translated as “carriage of the arms”, is an essential part of ballet technique, conveying emotions, expression, performance and artistry. Proper control of the arms is also essential for skills such as balance and pirouettes. Port a
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Improve your dance technique, ballet technique and performance with this quick but super-effective strength training workout. Strengthen your core, improve your extensions to the front, improve your balance and more! Great for all levels – easily adaptable for beginner dancers, but you can really push yourself if you are a more experienced advanced dancer. These
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Improve your dance technique, ballet technique and performance with this quick but super-effective strength training workout. Strengthen your core, turn-out muscles, arabesque and more! Great for all levels – easily adaptable for beginner dancers, but you can really push yourself if you are a more experienced advanced dancer. If you are serious about improving your
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Many ballet dancers struggle to maintain good alignment of their arms second position. We often get so focused on what our feet are doing or if we are maintaining our posture that arms can easily be forgotten. Maybe you start out with a lovely, rounded ballet arm in second, but by halfway through the exercise,
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Here’s another one of my favourite exercises to improve your développé devant and a la seconde – and indeed any extensions, tilts, kicks, etc. If you’ve read any of my previous developpe tips, you’ll remember that the foundation for high extensions is strength in your Psoas major muscle. This is the main muscle responsible for
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How do you improve your arabesque, attitude and extensions to the back? You need to train the strength in your lower back, glutes, and hamstrings, as well as control through your core. In this video, I demonstrate my favourite arabesque exercise. This exercise target all of the muscles at once, making it super time-efficient, perfect
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Improve your pirouettes and turns with this exercise. This is a quick tip exercise to help you improve your balance and stability during turns and pirouettes. The most overlooked exercise for better turn and pirouettes is strength during rotational movements, which is exactly what this exercise works on! For a stable turn, and certainly to
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Foot strength and control are absolutely essential for all dancers and performing artists. Strength and control are super important to protect against foot and ankle pain or injury. Of course, if you are working towards pointe work, or currently doing pointe, then you need more strength and control to both succeed at pointe and prevent
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Balance training is a complex process that involves multiple feedback systems in the body. In order to stay balanced, our bodies use sensory input from our vision, touch, and vestibular systems, as well as motor feedback and output from the muscles of our bodies and eyes, and feedback from sensors in our joints. Balance training
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