How to Correct The 5 Basic Ballet Positions | by Ren Yi
Hello I’m Ren Yi! Today I want to share what is the right way to stand in ballet. What are the details that people miss in their ballet class? Please wear anything comfortable and casual and follow me. Let’s start!
So today we discuss about 5 things: head, shoulders, body, pelvis, and our feet position. Feet position here is about how you stand on your feet, and how you can find the balance on your feet, so we are not talking about the ballet feet position.
1. Head
Let’s start from the head first. The head is sitting on your neck. So sitting means this is your neck, this is your joint which is connected with your head, so the head actually is sitting on it. So I want to share this with you is because I saw students and dancers do this (protrude chin forward) or that (retract chin backward), so you can’t really tell them how to find their middle line of your head feeling sitting on your spine. So this is very important for a dancer.
2. Shoulders
And second, we discuss about the shoulders. In ballet, we try to open our shoulders. Open means you stretch this part (upper front chest), then make sure this part of the muscle line and the behind part of the muscle, they are the same length. This is the feeling, so this is imagination. They are the same length so you have to open this part of your shoulders (your chest). So try to feel you have wings behind, it starts from the shoulder blade so the wings begins are stretched and spread that way (outwards) to the side. So if I want to say how my shoulders are my placed, the shoulders are actually in the middle line of the sewing line on the (side of the) clot