Ballet steps

It's important to get dancers (especially little ones) started learning important dance vocabulary early on! Here's a list of ballet terms for beginners.

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Have you ever been to the ballet class and felt that they are talking some foreign language to you? That’s because in ballet classes or ballet workouts the tutor would always use French ballet terminology and call each ballet move a specific name. Which is why it makes it possible to learn ballet

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In Once Upon A Ballet preschool ballet classes (ages 2 and 3), we often start out learning any real ballet steps in parallel. This allows the dancers to learn the step before adding the element of turnout.

For the bathroom my two little girls share, I wanted artwork that was girly, but not frilly since the boy uses it sometimes as well when it's more convenient than his Barber shop bathroom. I decided on antique ballet. Unfortunately I couldn't find what I wanted ANYWHERE. So… I turned to photoshop to create my own awesome artwork. Words for the positions are in French. They were given their names by French King LouisXIV, who developed ballet and its steps in the 17th Century. Just a little…