- Hi, sweet dancers.
I am so stoked to announce
that I have another live dance-workshop this month
on August 30th from 9:00 a.m. to noon p.m. (giggles)
Pacific Standard Time,
I'm hosting a ballet workshop.
So, that very first hour is going to be
an open-level ballet class,
we have bar, center, across the floor, the whole shebang.
That second hour is going to be a choreography class,
so you're gonna learn a brand new ballet routine
set to some popular music.
And that third hour, drum roll, please (smacks lips)
an interview with Kathryn Morgan, Miami City Ballet soloist
and just all-around beautiful dancer.
We're going to interview Kathryn,
learn about her epic returned to the dance world
and everything that she learned along the way.
So get your ticket to three hours of live-dance content.
I can't wait to have you,
these workshops are honestly so fun
and I love talking to all of you.
So, if you're on Instagram, swipe up.
If you're on YouTube,
go to the video description or the pinned comment
and click the link and I'll see you there.
Babes, today we're doing a fan kick.
You need to be warmed up before you do this little guy
cause it is a flexibility trick.
So pop over to one of my warm up vlogs
and do a little hamstring stretch,
do a little booty stretch, get a little warm-up hop,
then maybe get your feet all stretched up too,
and let's do this fan-favorite, classical kick.
All right,
I'm gonna be teaching you three different versions.
You have your chaînés fan, your ball change fan,
and then just a standing fan in a plié.
So we'll start out with our chaînés fan.
And before we do that, you do want to make sure
that you know your fan starts from the corner.
That's the most important thing.
Your fan starts from the corner, lifts to the corner,
opens up to the front and ends at the other corner.
So you're literally making the shape of a fan.
You know, those little (gasps) fans,
that's the shape that you're making.
So, a chaînés fan looks like this.
We're going to start out with a tendu devant,
shoulders and arms in third position.
Your chaînés is in a plié,
meaning you're gonna to bend those little knees of yours,
chaînés (swipes foot).
Now I'm facing the corner, (snaps fingers)
so I'm going to lift that leg up in a fan
and I'm going to open up to the other diagonal.
When you do lift your arms, (exhales sharply)
you're going to want to lift your shoulders
cause you're stressed, you're up on a relevé,
drop everything down, (swipes foot) control and over.
Let me do it in full-height and full-speed.
Five, six, seven,
and plié, (swipes foot)
lift (taps foot) and down.
Try it again.
Five, six, seven, and plié, (swipes foot)
lift and down. (taps foot)
So the idea is that you float up (snaps fingers)
and you're like, "I guess I'll put my foot down."
That's your chaîné fan.
You guys, if you want more flexibility content,
if you're trying to do your fan kick,
and you're like, "Yo, my legs don't go that high,"
you need some flexibility training.
and I have weekly, exclusive flexibility vlogs
on patreon.com/missauti
under the "Flexibility Babeh" package.
All right, the next one is your ball change fan.
So whichever leg you wanna use,
you're gonna to step out, ball (snaps fingers), change.
So you're stepping on the ball of one foot
and then you're coming back down to the other.
Then you're gonna lift up to a fan from here
(slaps leg) with the leg that's out.
Dancers, you can either go up to a relevé,
meaning you're up on your arch.
You can do a flat foot, that's fine.
For right now, we'll do a flat foot
because the next one's in a plié.
So we go ball (snaps fingers), change,
you're in a plié,
but you're gonna straighten your bottom leg
as you fan around (taps foot) and over.
Again, corner, center, corner.
Five, six, seven,
and you go ball, (snaps fingers)
change, fan and around.
I liked it clean arms
so I can just focus on what my leg's doing.
All right, so our very last one is in a plié,
so that supporting leg is bent.
Now, when we do the one that has a plié,
generally you take your eyeline
down to the diagonal of the bent leg.
So it looks like this.
Plié (swipes foot), fan.
Just kind of a fancy little line, we'll try it again.
Five, six, eyeline down (swipes foot),
corner, center, corner
and then you can step out of it.
All right, I hope you had fun doing a little fan kick.
Fan kicks are in literally everything,
you have your lyrical, your contemp,
your jazz, your competition,
your musical theater moment (snaps fingers).
If you're a dancer, you need to know how to do a fan.
Remember, the most important thing
is corner, center, corner,
and straighten your legs, and point your toes,
and press your shoulders down and close your rib cage,
squeeze your core.
It's actually a lot more to it than I thought. (laughs)
Did you notice that I lost my train of thought
halfway through that sentence?
You guys, I love you so much.
Show me all your fan kicks on
the inter-webs, meaning Instagram,
tag me so I can see you dancing.
I love you, I'll see you next week.
Bye (swipes and taps feet)
(uplifting music)