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| As Finis Jhung often says in class, "you either stand up, or you fall. You either balance, or you don't. It all comes from the way you do your barrework." As you do this carefully constructed and minutely detailed barre, Finis frequently asks Kelley Waddell of The American Ballet Theatre (and you) to see if she can continue doing an exercise with her hand off the barre. Sometimes, he asks her to check and see that she’s not sitting back on her heel, because he wants her to feel she’s always ready to move from that position.Exercises On This Video: 1. Stretches; 2. Pliés; 3. Battement tendu à la seconde, 1st position; 4. Battement tendu devant & derrière, 1st position; 5. Slow battement tendu en croix, 5th position, stretch, relevé & balance; 6. Quick battement tendu-dégagé; 7. Battement dégagé, relevé & balance; 8. Circular port de bras & balance; 9. Rond de jambe à terre; 10. Petit battement, fondu; 11. Grand battements en croix; 12. Piqué-balance, fondu, pas de bourrée dessous; 13. Tombé-fondu-relevé. 60 minutes.Taught by Finis Jhung. Demonstrated by Kelley Waddell. 13 barre exercises. Music by Scott Killian: New Ballet Music 4 — “All in 3/4” |
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