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Joelle Martinec "Direction Change Slides" - Lyrical Online Dance Class/Choreography Tutorial

This exercise is designed to get used to transferring weight into a balance and changing direction with turns.

Notes
  • Make sure knees are rotating from the hips in the 2nd position grande plié.
  • Feeling the inner thighs wrapping forward and the booty cheeks smiling will help hold the balance in first position in place.
  • Push the weight from the sliding foot into the floor to create the transition from the chassé to the balance.
  • Make sure that all the chassés slide into 2nd position, not 4th. The slide into 4th commonly occurs into the 2nd chaîné turn.