Poses & Positons

Poses and positions are what ballet is made of. Whenever you are on stage, anyone can tell if you have worked a lot on poses and positions. All poses have to be stretched out to make you look longer and correctly placed to someone sitting in the audience. It takes lots of practice and looking in the mirror to get them right. Your teacher has to correct you on these a lot. Positions have to be clean and not sloppy. When you have a good arabesque and a good fifth, you have more confidence in your dancing. Remember, there is no substitute for a good ballet teacher to coach you day by day. You should be at least intermediate II level to get the most from this file.