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We're taking a short pause while Ballet With Isabella steps into something new. Same world-class training. A bigger mission behind it. This next chapter is about more than ballet. It's about how you train, and how you show up – in and out of the studio.
We'll be back soon. In the meantime... keep it moving
- 32 calf rises each leg! – keep it slow and controlled
- 30 glute bridges – lengthen through the floor
- 1 minute plank - embrace the shakes!
- 4 x 30 second balances in retiré each side – if you fall, we start from the top!
- Practice your pirouettes from 5th and 4th each side. Try each turn until you feel 1 percent progress
- An arabesque each side – master it, and make it clean
- 1 minute butterfly stretch – breathe, don’t force, keep your back long and actively push the knees out
This floor barre course is the missing piece of the puzzle to your ballet training : the very foundations you never learn in a typical vocational ballet training, but is a part of the pre ballet curriculum of the best ballet schools:
The course is composed in two parts;
The first part starts with the 4 foundational exercises, which build our turn out and placement of the fundamental ballet movements, much like the beginning of the ballet barre.
The second part conditions our body for harder ballet technical elements and refining our classical lines with exercises such as ab work, adages, batterie etc. it reflects what is required for the second half of barre through to center work.
Jumps
Proper alignment and targeting just the right areas to strengthen and fast track our progress in improving the height, alignment and dynamic of your jumps, – as well as the aesthetic quality of our line.
In this course we strengthen the dynamic of the legs and speed which we need for effective beats and grand allegro!
- To strengthen the core
- Open and strengthen turn out
- Build classical lines and flexibility
- Build basic ballet foundations and correct placement/alignment issues
- Clean up bad habits in existing ballet technique.
- Injury rehab/ post partum/returning from a long break
- Developing strong coordination and musicality.
Lesson Breakdown
Introduction to The Course
Fab 4 – Exercise 1
Fab 4 – Exercise 2
Fab 4 – Exercise 3
Fab 4 – Exercise 4
Floor Barre for Jumps – Back Strength
Floor Barre for Jumps – Abs
Floor Barre for Jumps – Adagio with momentum
Floor Barre For Jumps – Grand Battement
Is this course for me? Yes if..
- For committed and passionate ballet students from beginner to advanced
- Those who want to maximise their turnout and endurance.
- Correct one’s ballet alignment and re-educate old technique issues
- Rehab or get in shape faster after long breaks or injury.
Look for another course if...
- Those with 0 ballet experience
- Those unable to make consistent time commitments
- Uninterested in repetition or breaking down ballet technique
- Those with serious shoulder, hip or knee injuries who have not yet been cleared for recovery.