Connecting Movements Sideways & Forward – Basic Ballet 6 (1995)

$25.00

Taught by Finis Jhung.

Levels 2 & Up. All Regions DVD. 100 minutes. 14 exercises.

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Description

Here are two different center classes, each with six combinations that build and progress. Count-by-count, Finis Jhung and Jennifer Goodman of The Joffrey Ballet show you how to connect individual steps from adagio to coda. This video reveals how achieving beautiful lines, balanced turns, and light jumps depends on the way you execute the preceding movement. Correctly performing that movement, the linking step, is the key to your success. Center Class A teaches six combinations based on glissades and pas de bourrées to the side and includes discussions on posture, breathing, and how to balance in passé. Center Class B teaches six combinations based on walks, runs, glissades, and pas de bourrées traveling forward and includes discussions on stretching for suppleness and using the mirror for pirouette practice. The CD music is by Webster Smith.

CENTER CLASS A: Connecting Movements Sideways

  1. Adagio: Glissade de côté, tendu, arabesque, pirouette en dehors
  2. Tango: Glissade, relevé battement racourci, pirouette en dehors
  3. Changement: Glissade, relevé developpé, changements
  4. Little Jumps: Glissade, jeté, pirouette en dehors
  5. Little Jumps & Beats: Glissade, assemblé, entrechat quatre
  6. Galop: Glissade, grande jeté à la seconde, pas de chat vole, pirouette en dehors 7. Balancing in passé

CENTER CLASS B: Connecting Movements Forward

  1. Adagio: Walk forward, developpé, pirouette en dehors
  2. Jig: Developpé, pirouette en dedans, piqué arabesque
  3. Changement Waltz: Glissade, piqué arabesque, developpé, balancés, changements
  4. Quick Jumps & Beats: Sautés, entrechat quatre
  5. Jumping Pas de Bourrée: Pas de bourrée sauté, sauté arabesque
  6. Galop: Pas de bourrée sauté, glissade, grand jeté saut de chat
  7. Special Stretches for Extension, Arabesque, Attitude, Balance
  8. Pirouette Practice (en dehors, en dedans) using the mirror

Play the DVD in 3 modes: Full Class, Individual Exercises or Workout Mode where you can run the exercises without instruction. Once you’ve learned the exercise and heard the instructions, you may want to go straight to the demonstration with music so you can have a work-out without interruption.

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The following DVDs don’t have the SPECIAL FEATURE but do allow you to skip the Instructions and go straight to the demonstration with music by using the SKIP FORWARD button:

  1. The Finis Jhung Ballet Technique: Stretch, Turn-out, & Extension
  2. The Finis Jhung Ballet Technique: The Power Barre
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