Can anyone tell me some very basic ballet moves, and their proper names please?
Ballet – Basic Positions and Directions All ballet choreography is based upon a set of basic positions and directions, these are the starting point of the more advanced positions and movements that when combined produce the beautiful ballets that we all know and love. This entry is here to explain and describe them. In the same way that painting has many schools (for example cubism, impressionist, realist) ballet has many ‘methods’, including, RAD1, ISTD2, Cecchetti3 etc. Each of these methods has a different style and way of describing positions Turn Out One of the mainstays of the ballet dancer is the ability to have good ‘turn out’. A dancer’s legs should always be turned out, enhancing the shape of the leg as viewed by the audience. This highly unnatural position involves the legs being turned out from the hip, so that the inner thigh is facing forwards and the back of the thigh is turned inwards. The foot should then be pointing outwards of its own accord. Some people find it easy
