Crystal Ballet Video Tutorial

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Ballet teaching of leg press notes:

Tighten the back of the foot is conducive to the tightening of the thigh muscles, thin thighs (hooked feet are easy to thin calves). Therefore, the leg to straighten the knee, tighten the back of the foot and then pressure, regardless of whether the leg in front or beside or behind.

Front leg: pay attention to the leg joints when pressing the leg. The back should be upright with the abdomen to press the front leg, as far as possible to let the abdomen close to the leg, and the shoulder and leg have a little distance for good! Especially when you start practicing, don't bury your head and let your chin go to the back of the foot.

Ballet Teaching Side Legs:

When pressing the side legs, the hand on the same side holds the handle bar, and the other arm is close to the ear, close to the leg and stretch as far as possible, lengthening the side waist. Don't run the bent side shoulder behind the side leg! Always use your back to get to the leg! Keep your face looking up. Even if you can't hold the side leg in your triple hand the first time or even a few years later don't ever rush your shoulder to the leg or behind the leg. Don't retract the hips too far back (prone to sitting on the hips, which will develop into a big butt), and don't extend them too far out or you won't be able to control them. The exception is, of course, far reaching sideways in order to stretch the ligaments. In fact, side leg press is easier to do on the ground

Ballet Teaching After Legs:

The leg that rests on the back must be straight and outwardly open!!!! That is to say, do not put the back of the foot straight down! Two shoulder joints, two hip joints should be in a plane! The waist should be drawn straight and lengthened to press backward, and the arms placed in the three places should be first. Then you can bend the main leg squatting, at this time obviously feel the inner thigh tendons have a stretching sensation, but can be tolerated. This is right! Consumed for a while! If you only want to practice the lower leg, you can not practice the back leg much.

At the beginning of the ligament is too tight, in the process of pressing the leg, do not be demanding to be pressed down, maintain the correct posture, day after day can lengthen the ligament, pay special attention to the hips to be correct. When you press the side leg and the back leg, it is easiest to get out of the crotch and oblique crotch, which needs to be corrected in time.

Ballet teaching under the fork Note:

The principle of the lower fork and the leg on the handle bar is no different. But the softness of the fork press is far better than the lever press!!!!

Ballet teaching of the vertical fork:

Note that the back leg should be straight and open! Straighten the front leg and tense the instep! Belly to the front leg, stretch the waist straight and bend backwards. If you have someone stepping on your hips for you, the kung fu on the back leg will increase dramatically and quickly!

Ballet teaching of the horizontal fork:

First press the frog! Vibratory pressure big crotch small crotch, consume a moment, then vibratory pressure for a moment, and then began to straighten the leg pressure leg. And the front leg is almost the same, belly to the ground! At this point the ligaments are really painful for us ah, then on the maximum tolerable consumption for a minute. Then vibrate the press again, **** count five minutes I think. Straddles are the hardest to press because the ligaments are thick and tough and there are so many of them! Work on it!

Ballet Teaching Kick:

Three-point pressure seven-point kick! Straighten the main leg power leg (this straight can be really difficult to do, but is very important), straighten the back of the foot, the back of the foot with the upward kick (kick is not high, it's okay, Fan must be right!). The kick must be the right way up! Be quick with the upward kick, control it a bit at the highest point, and then come back down relatively slowly. When kicking the side leg, be careful to kick behind the shoulder. After a few kicks, relax a little more on yourself and kick the leg as high as you can, but be careful not to arch your back.

The Development of Ballet

? Ballet? originated in Italy and flourished in France, ? Ballet? The word "ballet" is originally a French word for "ballet". The word ballet was originally an English translation of the French word ballet, meaning "to dance". Jumping. or? dancing. Ballet is initially a mass self-entertainment or square performance dance in Europe, in the process of development formed a strict norms and deconstructed form, its main feature is that actresses have to wear special pointe shoes to stand up on their toes to dance. As a comprehensive stage art, ballet was formed in the 17th century at the French court.

In 1661, King Louis XIV of France ordered the founding of the world's first Royal School of Dance in Paris, established the five basic ballet feet and seven hand positions, so that ballet has a complete set of movements and systems. These five basic foot positions have been used until today.

Ballet as early as five hundred years ago, during the Renaissance, the Italian nobles in the court to watch a kind of called ? Ballet? or? Balletti? The gorgeous dance, that is, later ballet. The prototype of the later ballet.

This dance spread to France and became the first peak of the development of ballet. France by the king led the dance, and founded not the first dance academy? Royal Ballet Academy, established the basic norms of ballet dance movements.

With the development of society, ballet gradually from the court entertaining dance into a plot of ballet into the theater, performed with the content of social life dance drama.

In the nineteenth century, Romanticism also had a profound impact on the art of ballet. Ballet from the content to the form have undergone fundamental changes. Reflecting the folk myths and legends, fairies, flowers and gods, elves and ghosts and other stories became the main theme of ballet creation. Actresses became protagonists, costumes were changed to short skirts, and pointe dancing became a basic element of ballet. This technique of standing on one's toes lifts the dancer's body upwards, making it suitable for the expression of a lithe physique as well as the expression of emotions of pursuit and longing.

The ballet is a dramatic performance using music, dance, and mime. Actresses often point their toes to the ground when dancing. Meaning:

① A form of stage dance, the European classical dance, commonly known as ballet. This is based on folk dance throughout Europe, after centuries of processing, enrichment, development and the formation of a strict norms and structural forms of traditional European dance art. 19th century, an important feature of the technology is that actresses have to wear special pointe shoes with the tip of the toes to dance, so some people call it pointe dance.

② dance theater, initially referred to the European classical dance as the main means of expression, a combination of music, pantomime, stage art, literature in one, used to express a story or a section of the plot of the dramatic art, called classical ballet (or classical dance drama). 20 century after the emergence of modern dance, modern dance combined with the classical dance techniques as the main means of expression to express the story content or plot of the so-called modern ballet. Gradually, the word ballet is also used to refer to a variety of other dance as the main means of expression of the dance theater works, although in the dance style, structural characteristics, methods of expression, etc. are different from the classical ballet or modern ballet.

③ In the modern choreography of dance works, there is a considerable part of no story content, there is no plot, the choreographer used European classical dance or modern dance, or a combination of the two, used to show some kind of emotion, mood, or performance of the author's understanding of a musical work, etc., which is also known as ballet.