A fun, cool trick to add to your repertoire. We'll start with a warm up, working on arabesque placement into a penché. The trick itself will involve a chaine turn into a penché that turns! We’ll start off with a promenade heel and then try the turn with a high releve. Our focus will be to understand how to create balance so your head, shoulders and feet are in alignment while being in a penché.
Level: Int/Adv.
Assisted by: Alexis Gilbert
This class starts with a focus on hamstring flexibility and is followed by warming up the legs with inner thigh stretches, hamstring, and hip flexor stretches. The warm-up also includes core exercises to help us build strength. Keep in mind your core is an important part of being able to hold you...
We’ll start with a warm up, working through hamstring stretches, alignment, and penché stretches. Then we’ll work on our cores, with a focus on muscles for better balance, and finish the warm up with inner thigh work, splits, and lower abs.
After that, we'll move on to work through some progres...
Get ready to try a fun trick with Alexis and Krista! Let's warm up our legs and backs, and practice keeping control and strength while we execute a layout. Then let's work on progressions across the floor involving battements and layouts. And Krista recommends trying some strength and condition...
