Ballet Teaching

Tracy SweeneyKendell DavenportTrisha OldenbergChristina Sweet

Jade Fulton

Phase One: Barre Practice

• Participants stand at barre and receive procedural education with visual and auditory instruction.

• The presence of the barre takes away the need to balance, allowing the participants to focus on the directions.

Phase One: Instructions

1) 1,2,5 position2) 2nd for arms3) releve, peila (demi and grand) , combre, 4) Tendu en croix- stretching the foot on the floor5) Devante, Alisoncone, dariyarie 6) Rond de jamees a teree, granda batteman7) developies en croix8) feedback-turnout, sickleing, head position, arm position

• VIDEO of Barre Exercises

Phase Two: Middle of the Floor

• Without the bar the vestibular and somatosensory feedback information received while doing the various movements becomes important.

• Also there will be less demonstration so the participants must use working memory to follow the verbal directions correctly.

• PHASE TWO VIDEO

Phase Three: Open Floor with Music

• With the music there is now a rhythm, timing factor to the performance, which will require the participants to coordinate their motor control to the auditory information .

• More feedback control will be used.