What You'll Learn
- Achieve proper pelvic alignment and hip stability during pliés.
- Enhance ankle articulation and foot strength with tendu-flex drills.
- Find your center in relevé through precise upper body placement.
- Coordinate fluid enveloppé and fondu movements with port de bras.
- Develop lower body control during the eccentric phase of relevé.
About This Video
Welcome to a focused 24-minute ballet barre session with Broche Ballet, designed to elevate your foundational technique through precise movement and anatomical awareness. This class dives deep into the core elements of a classical ballet warmup, specifically focusing on the mechanics of the plié, tendu, fondu, and relevé. By revisiting these essential movements with a critical eye, dancers can build the strength and stability required for more advanced center work.
A primary focus of this session is pelvic alignment. You will learn to maintain a neutral pelvis—often cued as 'tucking'—to ensure your hips remain perfectly stacked over your feet. This alignment is crucial during both demi-plié and grand plié, providing a solid foundation for every movement that follows.
The class progresses through first, second, fourth, and fifth positions, incorporating cambré to challenge your core stability while maintaining leg turnout. To improve footwork and agility, we dedicate significant time to ankle articulation. Through specialized tendu-flex combinations, you will work on increasing ankle mobility and ensuring the legs are fully stretched through the tips of the toes.
This leads into more complex coordination exercises involving enveloppé and passé, where the relationship between the supporting and working legs is tested. As we move into relevé, the instructor provides specific cues for weight distribution. You will practice pulling your upper body forward and up simultaneously to find a secure center of balance over the toes.
This segment is designed to help you feel 'lifted' rather than 'pushed,' which is key for successful turns and jumps later in your practice. The session concludes with a challenging relevé endurance series. Here, the focus shifts to eccentric strength—the ability to stay tall and resist gravity while lowering the heels to the floor.
By the end of this class, you will have a deeper understanding of how to coordinate your arms and legs for fluid, powerful ballet movement.
