Simply Ballet

🩰Step a foot into the limelight - challenge yourself 💪- have a great adventure 👑 It's Simply Ballet's End of Year Concert!
Participant registration is now open. Find out more at https://bit.ly/SBconcert2024

If you're struggling with turns, you might need a more solid foundation. Try this exercise from Physiotherapist Kendall Alway to help stabilise your core so you can sustain turning on one leg.

- Starting position: Lie on your back and put your ankles on top of the foam roller, positioned horizontally. Legs should be straight and gently turned out, while your hands rest on your shoulders with your elbows near your waist.

- Bridge your hips up so that your pelvis is lifted off the ground and your body is in a straight line, taut like an arrow.

- Lift your right leg up 90 degrees towards the ceiling, maintaining the lift of the hips.

- Keeping the right leg pointing to the ceiling and your hips lifted, rotate the body in one piece to the left so that you are facing the side wall and your leg is now in an à la seconde position.

- With the hips and core lifted off the ground to maintain the straight line of the body and leg on the roller, your left shoulder will be taking weight while the left hand stays tucked into the body out of the way.

- The right palm can come across the body to the floor to help stabilize. (While changing facings, imagine that a string from the ceiling holds your raised foot in one place while you rotate it within your hip socket to face the wall.)

- From that position, complete the next series of slow, controlled movements: Enveloppé the right leg into a turned-out passé, then turn the passé in, turn it out again, and développé back out so the right leg is in à la seconde once more.

- Keeping your hips lifted, return in one piece to your back so that the leg is devant again and both arms are tucked into the starting position. Lower the right leg back to the foam roller, then lower the hips.

- Repeat on the left side. Do 2 sets on each side.

Full article from Hannah Foster (Pointe Magazine) here https://bit.ly/33mhCx4

3 Exercises for More Coordinated Pirouettes Whether you're aiming for effortless pirouettes onstage or trying not to bump into furniture while training at home, we all want sailing, suspended turns. While many components go into a controlled pirouette—a powerful preparation, a balanced relevé, a stable core and well-placed arms—your whol...

🩰The stage is set - are you going to be a part of this year's Simply Ballet Concert? Find out more details and sign up online here ▶️https://bit.ly/SBconcert2024

📖 Need to know more about Ballet? Maybe about going to the ballet? What to wear? How do classes work? How do Ballet's get made? What happens behind the scenes? Or what all those French words actually mean?

This little gem has all that and more, along with gorgeous illustrations to get you learning everything you didn't even know you needed to know about ballet! Pick it up and learn something new next time you're at the studio.

Did you know Stretching and Strengthening really go hand in hand?

Often a tight muscle is also a weak muscle. The International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS) says flexibility is “the range of motion at a joint in association with the pliability of a muscle" but also notes its role in “complimenting muscular strength, building efficiency in movement, coordination, and preventing injuries".

Book in for one of our Progressing Ballet Technique classes to work on both at once – Tuesdays 7:15pm, and Saturdays 3:30pm. More info here https://bit.ly/sbadultclasses

Quotes from Belle Beasley’s article How to Stretch Safely https://bit.ly/3rEyUEZ

“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.” – James Brown the ‘Godfather of Soul’

From our littlest dancers to our most experienced, everyone can be involved in the End of Year concert one way or another! If you want to find out more details, get in contact with the office or register as a participant at https://bit.ly/SBconcert2024

Come and be a part of the fun - Sign-up is open for our End of Year Concert now! Check out all the details at 👉 https://bit.ly/SBconcert2024

Do you want to be part of Simply Ballet's End of Year Concert? Find out how at https://bit.ly/SBconcert2024

Why should you make sure you bring your water bottle to every class? Here's 3 fab reasons why you should hydrate 🥛

1) Water can help with injury prevention and recovery by aiding circulation and flushing out toxins
2) Water helps our bodies absorb vitamins and fibre better
3) Water helps you maintain concentration levels in class

Read the full article online here https://bit.ly/308W0G9

References:
BetterWayHealth.com
www.betterwayhealth.com/drinking-water.asp

Photo: © Bryan Creely | Dreamstime.com

Water & Dancer Health - Dance Informa Magazine We all know we should drink more water, but do we? As dancers, we are athletes and it is important to keep our bodies in the best condition possible. One of the major factors of body health is water consumption. We can’t expect to have the strength and energy we need, let alone feel and look […]

Information is out now for participating in Simply Ballet's End of Year Concert!
Find out more at https://bit.ly/SBconcert2024

Over 55? Try our classes 🦢 🩰 Whether you’ve never danced before or want to get back into the swing of it, our Silver Swans® classes have something for everyone!

Click here for more information > https://bit.ly/sbSilverSwans

Simply Ballet's End of Year Concert is coming soon! Find out more online https://bit.ly/SBconcert2024

Hugs and love to all our dancing dads 🩰Thank you for everything you do! 💙

Are you looking for a new way to keep fit and active? Our Silver Swans® ballet classes for over-55s will put a spring in your step! 🩰

Based on research into dance practice for older learners and developed by the Royal Academy of Dance, this program is available at Simply Ballet!

It’s never too late to shine 🌟 Book a trial class today > https://bit.ly/SBSwans

Do you just want to dance? So does Olivia! A beautiful little book about how everyone can be a dancer. 💕

PS - If you want to learn to dance, we have classes for all ages and all experience. Check out https://bit.ly/sbinfopack for more details

Aren't these the best pointed toes you've seen all day?!? 🩰😍

Get in on the fun at Simply Ballet 👉 https://bit.ly/sbinfopack

Plié

To bend

A bending of the knees. Can be done as a demi (half) plié or grand (big or full) plié.

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📖 It's Book Week! Can you guess what book character Miss Elisabeth is?

(Hint - it starts with Angelina, and ends in Ballerina 🩰😍👏)

Well Done Everyone! What an amazing 2 days of Celebrating our Student's Achievements. We are so proud of everyone who was a part of our 2024 assessments, including the mum's and dad's, teachers, hair-doers,music assistants, ballet-tight-washers, and everyone who supports our students learning every week. We wouldn't do it without you!

Looking forward to another great year of learning and loving ballet!

Perfectly poised for their Intermediate Examination! Chookas lovely ladies 🩰🐥

These guys are seasoned pro's at doing Examinations! 🌟

Enjoy yourselves and our biggest Chookas to our Level 4 Discovering Repertoire students 🩰

Ready to go - our Adult Level 1's! 🩰

Chookas guys - you've got this! 👍

Good Luck, or should we say 'Chookas!' 🐥 to our Grade 2 Examination girls!

Enjoy dancing! 🩰

What a way to start the day with this bunch of cuties!! 😍🩰🌟

Chookas for Your Pre-Primary in Dance Class Award ??