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Hello my love, welcome back
to the Dance With Miss Auti channel.
Today, I'm gonna be teaching you how to do fouette turns.
We're gonna go through some progressions
and some step-by-step so you can
actually learn how to do it.
Let's go.
But first, meet my beautiful assistant Sydni.
(upbeat music)
All right dancers, this is the turn
you're gonna be learning.
Six and seven, tendu one.
Plie two.
And up.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Okay, let's break down some of the positions first.
So, first things first is first position.
Get those heels together right here.
Your arms are gonna be on bas,
so just below your bellybutton.
From here, no matter what side you wanna do,
you will begin with a nice tendu a la seconde,
so Sydni's doing a right-side fouette,
so she has her right foot out.
Arms open up to a second, so your elbows are lifted,
they're nice and long however.
This toe is pointed, and she's rotating from the hip.
Beautiful.
Can you turn to the side for me?
From here dancers, you're going to rond de jambe this toe
back into a fourth position.
That foot comes down.
Good, and we plie.
Beautiful.
You'll notice that Sydni took a moment
to neutralize her pelvis.
So, go ahead and stick your booty out for a sec.
Do not do that, okay, you wanna neutralize the pelvis,
and hold there.
Shoulders are dropped.
One arm's the side, one arm is forward.
Go ahead and just shift to face the front.
Beautiful.
So, from our first, to our tendu,
to our rond de jambe.
Now we take a passe underneath the knee, beautiful.
This is the turn position in between your fouettes,
your arms are in a fifth en avant, so in front of your body.
From here dancers, you're going to take the leg
in the front, beautiful, and then you'll open it
to the side, and then you'll come to a passe.
Good, you can show again kind of from the diagonal
so they can see.
Beautiful.
And then open side, and passe.
Good, come on down.
Gorgeous.
Okay dancers, so the first thing you wanna do
after you know those positions
is to build some strength and some stamina.
So, if you need a bar, or a chair, or a countertop,
go ahead and grab that.
If not, you can be a rockstar like Sydni
and be in the middle.
We're gonna take our feet to first position.
Arms are gonna open into second.
You wanna make sure that your arms stay
in front of your side seam so that you don't press back
and open your ribcage out, okay?
We're gonna do 16 eleves in first position,
eleve has no plie.
Six and seven, this is rise.
Good, and two.
Beautiful.
And three.
Her shoulders are down, good.
Five.
And six, gorgeous.
Her chin is lifted.
Eight, eight more.
One, good, her heels are pressing forward.
Three, good, her legs are straight.
Last four, keep the energy in the upper body.
Yes.
And up.
16, good.
Okay, are your calves burning?
Yes. (Auti laughs)
Good, okay.
From here dancers, we'll go first position.
We're gonna take our first progression.
One.
And two.
Just to passe, up, and then first position.
Again, we go one.
And two.
And lift.
And lower.
Again, go one.
And two.
Beautiful, and lift.
Lower, hold it there, flip towards me.
Let's show them to the side.
Seven and a one.
Good, and two.
Passe and lift.
One more time profile.
Out, keeping your neutral pelvis, beautiful.
And lift.
And low.
Good, okay.
Dancers, second progression gets a little bit trickier,
because now our leg is actually extending
to the front and the side.
So, we were showing you the front,
facing the diagonal, just so you could see the line,
but make sure that your fouette goes front, side, passe.
You don't need to rotate to the diagonal,
that would be for your a la secondes, okay?
So, from first position we're gonna go one,
and two.
Passe.
And front, side, passe.
Again.
Go front, side, passe.
Good, she's squeezing her abs,
and she's using her arms.
Last one Syd and (Auti vocalizes).
Lower.
Good, okay.
So, that can be a little bit intense with your hips, right?
'Cause you're lengthening your leg out,
the weight of your leg is in that kind of hip flexor,
so try not to grip it too, too hard,
but you know, we are human, so we're gonna use that part.
So, use this moment to kind of stretch
your little hip flexor out.
Now, before you try, or attempt, the full turn,
you do wanna make sure you're spotting.
So my favorite spotting exercise
is to stand parallel, put your hands on your hips,
pick a focal point.
So, I'm gonna look at Brayden, who's behind the camera.
(Auti laughs)
I'm gonna look at Bray, and the whole time I rotate,
I flip, and I keep my eyes locked on Brayden.
So, if you don't have a Brayden at home, that's okay,
you're gonna find something that's stationary in your room,
maybe it's a lamp, or it's something on your wall,
or like what?
A photo on the wall, a teddy bear, okay?
You're gonna lock your eyes on that teddy bear,
you're gonna rotate, and the moment you face the back,
yes, you're gonna whip your head around, okay?
So, spotting is maintaining your focus
on a stationary object while you're rotating, okay?
(Auti sighs)
Should we put the whole turn together?
Okay.
It's tricky to do fouettes slow,
but what Sydni's gonna attempt to do
is from first position she's gonna go one,
she's gonna go two.
She's gonna do a single pirouette
that lands her, ow.
And then she's gonna show you that to the side
is how you pick up into that next turn.
Let's try it really slow.
It might be better than my sticking bare feet.
Six and seven, this is tendu,
this is plie.
She does a pirouette.
Front.
Side.
Pirou.
Um hi, yeah, that was beautiful.
Let's go one more time.
So dancers, eventually when you have the whole mechanic
of your tendu, your fourth position, plie,
your passe, your front side turn,
it's single pirouettes in between front side.
So it's front side single, front side single,
that's a fouette, fouette means to whip.
So, you're whipping yourself around.
Let's go slow one last time.
Six and seven, this is one.
Two, squeeze your tummy.
Front side, up.
Good, beautiful.
Great job dancers.
All right dancers, fantastic job doing your fouette.
So, remember that dance technique is layer,
by layer, by layer.
So, always start with the very first progression
and then work your way back, or work your way forward,
into your fouette.
And I actually like that I said work your way back,
because if you find the next progression
is a little too challenging, step back
and give yourself a moment to master this foundation,
this progression, and then step forward, okay?
Beautiful work and happy turning.
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