Classic Classes 1: Advanced Beginning/Intermediate Pointe Class

Classic Classes 1: Advanced Beginning/Intermediate Pointe Class

Starring:: Finis Jhung
Producer:: Ballet Dynamics Inc.
Level:: Beginner, Intermediate
Genre:: Ballet
Format:: DVD
Running Time:: 75 minutes
Release Date:: 1996
Availability:: Available

Summary

Finis works with the elegant Johanna Snyder of The American Ballet Theatre in a simply structured class on pointe that begins with Finis presenting and showing each barre exercise and then standing by and coaching Johanna as she beautifully demonstrates.

EXERCISES
1. Relax and stretch
2. Battement tendu in 1st position facing the barre
3. Pliés
4. Battement tendu in 1st position with stretches
5. Battement tendu in 5th position with piqué & balance
6. Battement tendu, dégagé in 5th position with balance
7. Working the foot & stretching the body
8. Rond de jambe on the floor, in the air, with stretches
9. Battement tendu dégagé with sous-sus
10. Battement fondu / 11. Grand battement

Center 1. Temps lié to pointe
Center 2. Fondu to pointe
Center 3. Développé to pointe
Center 4. Piqué pose
Center 5. Fondu relevé traveling diagonally
Center 6. Relevé & piqué développé traveling diagonally
Center 7. Large piqué fouetté turning (arabesque) with changements
Center 8. Piqué turns and pas de bourrée
Center 9. Piqué turns and jeté
Center 10. Révérence