Purpose/Order of Each Ballet Barre Exercise?

Can you please tell me the order of the barre exercises in a traditional ballet class?

Can you also give me the reasons of each of these exercises at barre:

-grand battement

-plies

-degage

-fondu

-frappe

-developpe

Purpose/Order of Each Ballet Barre Exercise?chicago theater

1. Plies - to bend. used to warm-up your leg muscles and hip flexors for turn-out.

2. Tendu - to stretch. to warm-up the foot and the point. to strengthen the bottom of the foot as it works against the floor.

3. Degage - to disengage. to further warm-up the foot and also the ankle and calf, as the foot, and then the calf work to push the foot off the ground and into the air. No thigh involvement at this time.

4. Rond de jambe - leg circle. To engage the previous muscles as well as the muscles required for turn-out. To improve turn-out, by allowing the rotation muscles in the thigh to work against the resistance of the floor.

5. Fondu and developpe - to melt - to grow. Often combined with small adage at barre. Combinations of one-legged plies with coupe and extension no higher than the knee at first, and then extending higher with each circuit. Teaches one to keep the hips level and apply equal affort to the standing and working leg. Warms up the thighs, and teaches the body to work in unison to the music. Stretches the backs of the legs in preparation for grand battements.

FirstPrevious12 Next End

Purpose/Order of Each Ballet Barre Exercise?

Topic