What You'll Learn
- Refining the transition from tombé into attitude and arabesque with proper support
- Maintaining alignment and core stability during slow développé and promenade
- Achieving a floaty quality in attitude turns through controlled timing and breath
- Correcting weight distribution and arm placement in effacé and fondu sequences
- Developing musicality by filling the phrasing in advanced adagio work
About This Video
Welcome to a specialized session of Advanced Ballet Center at Broche Ballet. This class focuses on a slow-paced, highly detailed approach to center work, allowing dancers to truly master the nuances of weight placement, musicality, and control. Often in advanced classes, the pace can move quickly through combinations, but this session offers the rare opportunity to dissect the mechanics behind complex sequences.
In this practice, we dive deep into adagio and fondu combinations. You will follow along as the instructor provides personalized feedback to students, covering essential technical points such as the smooth transition from a tombé into an attitude. A major focus of this lesson is stability: we emphasize ensuring the standing leg does not buckle or lose its external rotation when moving into effacé or arabesque.
By focusing on a supported standing side, you can achieve greater height and freedom in your working leg. Our technical exploration continues with an emphasis on maintaining a square pelvis and an engaged core throughout développé and promenade. You will learn how to control the descent from a relevé and how to use your breath to find that floaty quality required for successful attitude turns.
Timing is everything in an advanced adagio; the instructor highlights the importance of not being too fast or too slow, ensuring every movement fills the music perfectly. Whether you are working on the precision of your arabesque or the fluidity of your bourrée, this video provides the technical breakdown necessary for real progress. We also address common habits, such as the placement of the arms.
Keeping the arm back and supported during fondu and soutenu transitions is vital for maintaining a long, elegant line and preventing the torso from twisting. Join the Broche Ballet community for this detailed exploration of advanced center technique and refine your artistry with precision and grace.
