Ballet Dancer
Ballet Dancer
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 VINTAGE SCHMID CHILD BALLET DANCER Music Box Swan Lake Japan 1950s  US $59.95
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Almost all ballet dancers want to get more flexible, and improve their ballet technique. Correct basic classical dance technique will help you increase flexibility, even if you never did ballet stretches. Truly, dancing ballet correctly releases tension, increases turnout, heightens leg extensions, and achieves elevation in allegro. Even without the perfect ballet body, your potential to dance is greater with a good ballet technique.
When I reflect on the limitations I have seen in the potential of dance students to develop fully, it almost always is related to early training in ballet that developed excessive muscle tension. Incorrect basic positions contributes to muscle tension, because the muscle groups work against each other.
For example, if the pelvis is tucked under, or allowed to tip back, the fantastically (potentially) strong back muscles are working against the power of the quadriceps, or large front thigh muscle formation.
Another example, if the demi plie is forced, and the weight of the body drops back, tension increases at the front of the ankle and the tibial or shin muscles. This will lead to injury - shin splints, or extremely painful inflammation of those muscles. Re-training then goes right back to correct standing posture and release of tension.
Dancers do a lot of stretches, in the barre work, after the barre, and after ballet class. If a dance student has gathered tension all the way through class, these stretching exercises do not help them get that much more flexible.
However, if posture, turnout, plies, and leg extensions are done with correct tension and alignment, then the body is ready to get more flexible with stretching exercises.
Every plie elongates the calf muscles, if the body weight is centered, and the turnout is held in the rotator muscles, and the feet are able to relax and spread on the floor.
Grands battements express the ballet dancer's flexibility at the end of a barre where tension release is achieved during and in between the exercises, if basic ballet technique is correct.
At that time, careful, slow, and calculated stretching will actually increase flexibility of the big muscle groups.
If you have not had the ideal ballet training, you can still improve a lot. Get more dance education and push for your full potential. Learn the safest way to get more flexible, and get tips to improve your basic ballet technique.
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