How to Improve Pirouette Turns 

Focus on balance and straight axis. Make sure your pelvis is straight up and down, and that your preparation doesn't throw you off-center as you go up. Then close your arm and spot in order to rotate. It's all balance, posture, and gravitational force.

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Same here im a ballerina struggling with doubles

Same but... this is my 6th year!

I would recommend trying fouettes they are a bit easier (in my opinion) because u get to put your foot down as a prep to start again!

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First of all, don't think about lifting up in the relevé. Think about driving down through your legs and feet into the floor while at the same time keeping a higher level in the body. Think: Up to go Down to go Up. You can also practice doing for instance 8 relevé in a row then hold the last one to build strength in the legs and calves. Do this while holding onto the barre. - Then build up to more. If 8 is too hard, start with 4.

RPM Dance Thank you so much Miss Cheryl! Thats help me a lot❤❤

I also do rises at the barre or in the center to improve my ankle strength so that it becomes a lot stronger for me to get higher relevés that stay

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Who did you study with? My teachers were Nina Stroganova and Vladimir Dokoudovsky, both from Olga Preobrajenska. This is the same technique. My problem was not realizing my pelvis was slightly tilted, and my legs were uneven in length, so I wasn't aligned properly in releve, and did not have enough control. We had a wonderful exercise where from fifth position with right shoulder diagonal to the mirror, we would do one pirouette en dedans, then one to the left en dehors, then one to the right en dehors, and one to the left en dedans. Or something like that. The other was to stand in fifth, do a grand battement ala seconde, plié and releve onto that leg, do one pirouette and hop, again to the left. Then two pirouettes and hop, then three and hop, etc., to strengthen the standing leg and ankle with the extra hops. The best dancer I ever saw do pirouettes was Laurie Ichino, a pupil of Tatiana Lichine. She did a contest with another student, and at 27 pirouettes, she was still perfectly balanced and in control, and could have probably done 32 if not 64!

Yes Absolutely with the centripetal force/circular pattern being the impetus aligns your central axis is like pulling a string on a top you retain the circular energy pattern consistent

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person practise just doing a relève with the correct position and try to fix your problem by leaning to the right a little bit more. I practise this a few times before doing some singles and doubles, triples etc. I hope this helps!

hey, I would suggest asking your teacher/looking online for exercises to strengthen your foot/ ankle. I got my ankles to be stronger by going up and down in relevé, and using a stretch band (a towel folded in half works fine too) to put my foot into and I pointed and flexed my foot to increase mobility and strength.

Grande Plie..???.. and simple Tendus.???.. I think those are simple foot and ankle exercises... Get better soon!!.. ✌️❤️😎🙏👍👍

Practice just doing relevé into retire and balance. Use two-way energy by driving down through your supporting leg while at the same time lifting higher in the body to create a stabilizing position. Engage your zippers as I have discussed on previous videos. After you strengthen your releve and discover where your balance and center of gravity is add a single turn.

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