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We're doing small ballet jumps today, babies.
Also known as petit allegro.
Those are your sautes, your chancements,
your entrechat quatres, your royales,
your petit jetes, your echappes,
your glissades, changes, sans changes.
What?
Buckle up, you're gonna learn them all.
Okay, the very first jumps
we're gonna do are your sautes.
Saute literally means to jump.
You can do them in any position,
but today we're gonna do first and second.
So your first position saute, your arms are bras bas.
Plie, jump, plie.
Super simple.
In second position, you open up to your second,
about hip width apart.
Arms come to second position.
Plie, saute, plie.
Let's break it down.
Okay, so you start in a nice, first position.
You need to begin with a plie.
Now when you jump up in the air,
you have to go through your arches, point in the air.
Come back, toe, ball, heel.
Plie, jump, plie.
It's really important that you put your heels
all the way down when you land to avoid shin splints.
Plie, jump, plie.
Seven and, plie, jump, plie.
Moving into second position,
just open up to your nice second.
Same mechanics, you plie.
You're gonna push off of your foot.
Come up, toe, ball, heel.
Seven and, plie, jump.
And plie, jump.
That's it, those are your sautes in first and second.
We're moving on to echappes.
Echappe means to escape.
You're starting in one position, escaping to another,
just like Nemo and Dory.
Shout out Finding Nemo.
And coming back to another position that you began in.
So we're gonna go from fifth to second.
Just a reminder, your fifth is your heel to your toe.
Both feet are turned out, and we're here, yes?
For echappes, your arms do open to second.
You're gonna plie in fifth, escape to second.
Now, when you come back to fifth position,
you just change which foot was in front.
Plie, fifth.
That's it.
Plie.
Whoop, I had a little burp in the middle of my echappe.
And fifth.
Stretch.
Let's bring the people in close
to see what the heck I'm doing.
So starting in fifth position, you plie.
Again, pushing off your whole foot.
You're gonna jump to second.
Switch which foot was in front.
Here we go.
Seven and, plie, jump to second, switch your feet in fifth.
Plie, jump to second, switch your feet in fifth.
You're doing an ecahppe, baby!
Changements!
Changement means to change.
I'm gonna combine your changements with your royales
because those also change feet.
So we're going to be royal and we're going to change.
Your changements start in your fifth position.
Friends, you plie.
You jump in the air, squeeze your legs close together,
and switch which foot was forward.
So plie, squeeze, switch.
Seven and, plie, squeeze, switch, seven, and.
Now, your royales - don't worry, I'm gonna break both down.
Your royales squeeze, cross front, close back.
I know you're like, what is the difference?
But let me explain it more.
Your changement goes straight up, switches feet.
Your royale goes straight up,
crosses slightly more in front, then changes feet.
So one more time, your changement goes,
straight up and down, switch feet.
Straight up and down, switch feet.
Your royale is gonna squeeze, switch.
Seven and, squeeze, switch.
Seven and, squeeze, switch, seven, and.
Braiden, can we slow motion it for the people?
All right, so slow motion.
Your changement goes from fifth position,
seven and, plie, jump, switch.
And plie, jump, switch, seven.
Your royale is going to plie, squeeze, then switch.
Seven and, plie, squeeze, switch.
Seven and.
Hey, I got a little imagery for you.
I tell my young ones to pretend,
think of their favorite chip.
You heard me, your favorite chip.
Mine is probably like a hot Cheeto,
even though I can't eat them anymore because I'm dairy free
but that's fine.
Take the hot Cheeto, put it between your legs,
don't actually do this but think about it.
In your royale, you want to squeeze your legs,
crush the chip, switch directions.
Squeeze and crush the chip, switch.
Your changement has no chip, you're just switching feet.
Your royale, you're squeezing your favorite chip,
crushing it so there's crumbs all over the floor
and your mom is mad, changing your feet.
Good luck!
(blows kiss)
Hello, we're doing entrechat quatre.
Entrechat quatre, you guys, I'm not French.
So for those of you saying
my pronunciation is not very good, be nice, okay?
Thank you.
Be sympa, sympa means nice in French.
Take that, people!
Anyways, your entrechat quatre is from fifth position.
It does not change feet.
This little guy happens so quick,
you're gonna be like, what even was that?
But we're gonna slow motion it for you, okay?
You plie, your feet - if these are your legs,
you're gonna jump straight up, switch in the air,
switch back before you land.
So if you start with your right foot forward,
you need to end with your right foot forward.
If you start with your left foot forward,
end with your left foot forward.
Six, seven, and, plie, switch, six, seven.
And plie, switch, switch.
That's it.
All right, starting in a nice fifth position.
Just a reminder, you're gonna come up,
you're gonna switch your feet, switch them back and land.
Easy peasy.
Six, seven, and plie, switch, switch.
Seven and, plie, switch, switch, seven.
And plie, switch, switch.
Woohoo!
Moving on to kind of a transition type of petit allegro
is your glissade.
Your glissade means to glide,
and it looks very, very pretty.
Ba-dum, ba-dum.
There are different kinds of glissades.
Today we're gonna do change.
Glissade change means you're going to change
and switch which foot was in front.
And then the glissade sans change,
which is a glissade without changing your feet, okay?
So, it looks like this.
Plie, a glissade change, changing your feet.
Brush, straight, straight, switch which foot was in front.
Brush, switch.
Glissade sans change, without a change.
Same thing, but keep the same foot in front.
- [Voiceover] Boom!
- All right, a glissade change,
changing your feet, starts in fifth position.
You plie, you're gonna brush the front foot out,
jump onto it as your other foot straightens and comes out.
Yes?
Six, seven, and plie, brush, straighten, change your feet.
Other way.
Plie, brush, straighten, change your feet.
Plie, brush, change your feet.
Let's go sans change, so keeping this same foot in front.
Plie, brush, straighten.
Change your feet so we can go the other way.
Plie, brush, same foot in front.
You're gliding, babies!
We made it to our last one, guys!
Your petit jetes, your small jetes.
Fun fact slash pro tip slash rule,
your jetes stay in place, they don't travel.
You're replacing the leg that you were standing on.
So if you go from a nice fifth position,
the back foot is gonna brush.
You're gonna jump onto it
and replace the foot you were just standing on.
Brush, replace.
So if you notice, I didn't move
because I'm just replacing my supporting leg.
A position you do need to know for this
is your coupe derriere.
This beautiful position in the back.
Your knee is out, your toes are winged,
and your heel is sitting kind of by where your ankle is.
Same thing on this side.
Ba-dum!
Let's try it.
All right again, starting in our trusty fifth position.
This back foot is going to brush,
I'm going to step onto it as my other foot
comes to a coupe derriere.
Brush, step onto it, release, coupe derriere.
Let's try it as a real jump.
Six, seven, and, brush, switch.
Brush, switch.
Ta-da!
♪ Turn around, every now and then I get a little bit ♪
Okay.
Wasn't that from that one M&M commercial?
Remember the little chocolate was like...no?
- [Braiden] No.
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Post that in the comments if you know what I'm saying.
You guys, I love you.
You did awesome.
Those are your petit allegro.
Of course there's a ton of other jumps
that could be under the category of petit allegro.
But those are some basic starters for you guys.
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(blows kiss)
♪ Turn around ♪
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