How your plié and battement tendu are going to change your whole ballet technique

There’s two things you need to master in order to progress in ballet, whether you started today or you’ve been a seasoned dancer or an experienced student.
⭐️ That’s a plié and a battement tendu. ⭐️
So every single ballet step out there, from the simplest (if there is anything as a simple ballet step) to the most complicated one, contains either a plié, or a tendu, or both.
Let’s take a grand battement for example. A grand battement is an evolution of your ‘simple’ battement tendu.
Of course, the tendu is controlled, it doesn’t have momentum. In the grand battement, you add the momentum and the height, of course. But if you haven’t mastered the way that you’re supposed to do a tendu, the grand battement will be axiomatically doomed! 😵‍💫
You can apply that in every step, exercise, choreography… You can define whether there’s a plié, a tendu or both for every single ballet step!
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I'm Olia, the ballet expert behind The Dancer Next Door.
I help adult ballerinas to dance like they dream by discovering the secrets of professional training.
I've been dancing ballet since I was a wee five year old. I have been teaching since 2012 dancers between 3 and 60 years old. Over the last few years I have dedicated myself to the adult ballet community because I am devoted to providing wholesome and proper education to ballet students who started or re-started ballet as adults.
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