Barrework Level 2: Finis Jhung Ballet Technique Video
As Finis Jhung often says in
class, "you either stand up, or you fall. You either balance, or you
don't. It all comes from the way you do your barrework." As you do this
carefully constructed and minutely detailed barre, Finis frequently asks
Kelley Waddell of The American Ballet Theatre (and you) to see if she can
continue doing an exercise with her hand off the barre. Sometimes, he asks
her to check and see that she’s not sitting back on her heel, because he
wants her to feel she’s always ready to move from that position. Exercises
on this video: 1. Stretches; 2. Pliés; 3. Battement tendu à la seconde,
1st position; 4. Battement tendu devant & derrière, 1st position; 5. Slow
battement tendu en croix, 5th position, stretch, relevé & balance; 6.
Quick battement tendu-dégagé; 7. Battement dégagé, relevé & balance; 8.
Circular port de bras & balance; 9. Rond de jambe à terre; 10. Petit
battement, fondu; 11. Grand battements en croix; 12. Piqué-balance, fondu,
pas de bourrée dessous; 13. Tombé-fondu-relevé. Taught by Finis Jhung.
Demonstrated by Kelley Waddell. 13 barre exercises. Music by Scott
Killian: New Ballet Music 4 — All in 3/4. 60 mins. (2006) DVD-Region 1.
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