What You'll Learn
- How to maintain wide shoulder placement during grand battement and high extensions.
- Techniques for isolating head movement from the shoulder line during fondu.
- Strategies for increasing stability in passé and arabesque by engaging the standing side.
- Improving muscular control in développé through slow-tempo, deep technical practice.
About This Video
Welcome to an intensive session of Speed Barre at Broche Ballet. While our Speed Barre series is designed to offer less instruction and more continuous dancing, this specific 'Super Sweaty SLOW Barre' session focuses on the deep, foundational technique required to execute advanced movements with precision. By utilizing slow-tempo combinations, dancers are challenged to find their center, stabilize their core, and maintain impeccable alignment through every transition.
The primary technical focus of this class is the placement and alignment of the shoulders. Many dancers struggle with closing the chest or hiking the shoulders during demanding movements like grand battement or développé. This class guides you through maintaining a wide, open chest and a stable shoulder girdle, ensuring your port de bras supports your legwork rather than hindering it.
You will learn how to move the head independently during exercises like fondu without disturbing the level line of the shoulders. Throughout the 37-minute session, we explore complex positions including arabesque and passé. The slow pace demands greater muscular engagement and stability, particularly on the standing side.
By focusing on keeping the standing side wide and the shoulders open, you will find greater height in your extensions and more control in your tombé and battement sequences. This class is perfect for the dancer who wants to get under the hood of their technique. Whether you are working on the height of your grand battement to the front and side or the fluidity of your movements en croix, the corrections provided here will help you build a stronger, more professional foundation.
Join us at Broche Ballet for this intentional practice and feel the difference that deep technique makes in your artistry.
