BALANCING DÉVELOPPÉ'S IN CENTRE 

Stella Qian THANKYOU 🙏🏻

Fiona 🤗🤗🤗

Teresa Dancer Girl ❤️❤️❤️

lozachops Thankyou so much! 🙏🏻

I think it's ron de jambe? I might be wrong too 😅

thin*, lol it's ok just correct it in a edit and then I'll delete my comment. ;).

Lubrano Lisa - The long legs, arms, and neck are an absolute required attribute to developed into a professional, or amateur, Prima Ballet Performer! Otherwise, they are just spinning their wheels and having fun!

Pete Totaro, that is most definitely true. As a ballet student in the states, I still try to maintain a weight within Vaganova is weight chart. As Russian ballerinas stand out with their stunning extensions and lines. Pete may I ask your connection to the ballet world? I see you often watch Vaganova is clips.

N/A N/A Hello, first let say thank you for helping all to understand the necessary body attributes to really become a successful Prima ballet dancer, etc. My connection to Vaganova Ballet Academy is primarily the wonderful memories of my most beautiful daughter learning ballet here in the states. After seeing many ballet sites in RU-vid, VBA just caught my interest in how the teachers and staff have perfected the art of training the most successful ballet dancers world wide! I love see the students at VBA progress over the years.

Pete Totaro. That's wonderful. I wish my dad understood ballet more. I'd like to someday be a principal with the Royal ballet in London. Because Russian companies rely heavily on students from their schools, (For good reason too). However Russian ballet continues to mesmerize me. My idol is Natalie Osipova, because she's Russian trained and had a nice career there before bringing her assets to the Royal Ballet. However Svetlana, and the sweet Diana Vishneva I look up to.

Hi. I struggled a lot with flexibility and it took me years to find ways that worked for me. Even my physio couldn't believe how easily I seemed to 'lose' flexibility. But there were underlying reasons for everything just as there will be genuine underlying reasons for you too. -I think the hardest part of being inflexible is how patient you have to be to address it. The first stretching method that really worked for me was this: Choose a stretch. Ease yourself very slowly into that stretch and AS SOON as it starts to feel tight, gently stop. Then, actually reverse slightly so that the stretch releases. You want to be precisely at the point just before the stretch starts to pull. Stay in this position for one to three gentle breaths and then release. -Now, so many people call me ridiculous because of this method, they say say how could this possibly work? How can you stretch by not stretching? -But the magic happens. Repeat the stretch. Ease yourself slowly into the stretch, stop as soon as it starts to hurt, reverse slightly, breathe and then relax out of the stretch. By the third repetition your muscles will have relaxed properly. You can expect a little improvement -and no pain! This method changed everything for me. I use it all the time now, in every stretch. I've given it to other tight people and it worked for them too. I'd be delighted if it helped you out. Another note I hope you don't mind me adding. I would never put a ballet student on point after only three years of training - especially if her feet hurt while stretching. I hope I'm wrong about this but it might be that you've been pushed too far too fast. If this were the case then maybe unrealistic demands are being made of your body. -This happened to me. it really made me feel like a failure. I didnt know it at the time but what I needed though was a much slower steadier approach. When I found this (completely by accident) I started to experience more success. I was a much happier dance student and I enjoyed ballet a lot more. Best of luck.

Most ballet dancers start from 3-6 years of age. However it's never too late. Some ballet legends started as late as you, it's rare however and takes a lot of work. Flexibility is an asset so I'd work hard at that and begin to take classes as well. Try your very best each and every class, and begin to see the growth your making. After a while it should be evident whether or not you can make it in the ballet world, or if it's just recreational. So head down to your studio, and take classes! And stretch, I found having contortion like flexibility as helped me. And for your splits google "over splits" basically its leveling a leg higher off the floor. This will help you since gravity will be assisting in pushing you down. And in time you'll not only get your splits but over splits as well. I have mine on an office chair for both legs, so don't lose hope. XD. ;).

However taking classes is far more important than stretching. But do both.

thanks very much for replying

i can do backbend and some turns ,,do you think that i have flexbility ????(I have done a test for flexibility from youtube and have succeeded and there is no difficult exercise for me i can do all )

You can't succeed necessarily in flexibility because you can always get better at it. Keep stretching no matter what. And take ballet lessons. You need a teacher to learn ballet. :). So keep stretching and take lessons. As many as possible. And how is there no difficult exercise for you? You don't have your splits, so over splits would be difficult. Along with chest stands the stretch. Like go in a backbend and put your legs in-between your legs. Basically there are plenty of stretches you can do. But take lessons, so you don't develop bad habits. :) Good luck!!!