Ballet

To keep thier toes healthy and to make pointing the foot outwards more comfortable. Pointe ballet dancers have to wear them so they can point on the very tip of thier toe.

The splits is not an easy pose to achieve, but with a little bit of effort you'll have them in no time. Depending on your level of flexibility it can take from 3-8 weeks to learn. I know, I know it seems like so very long, but its totally worth it and the road to getting there is not at all intense. So go easy on yourself, and have a good time!

The steps to take:

Try having a light cardio for 4-5 minutes. Then go into light, easy stretches such as touching your toes (or going as close as you can) ten times while breathing deeply. Then separate your legs a little take a deep breath, touch the floor (or as close as you can get without ANY pain), then exhale. Repeat five times. Then sit on the floor with legs together and touch your toes once more doing the breathing technique aforementioned. Repeat five times. Then separate your legs and reach for you left leg, the the the floor in front of you then your other leg.

After warming up your legs, begin kneeling lunges. Go as far as you can, stop, take a deep breath and then slow flex and relax the muscle. Then do a reverse lunge (as performed in video I'll link you to). Then repeat your kneeling lunges. This should last around five minutes. Then put your back foot against a couch or chair (know as Lunge with back leg against a wall/box on the site I'm going to link you to). Repeat three times resting between each one. Now go into your split as far as you can without pain (you should just feel tension and/or slight pain or slight discomfort). Then pull up, relax for thirty seconds, stand up and shake your legs, and then repeat your lunges for around a minute, do your split and hold for thirty seconds once more. Then repeat everything with your other leg.

For side splits. You should do frog stretches butterflies, and then v-sit stretches mentioned in the warm-up. Then do side ways lunges and then push up, with hips square and knees pointed to the ceiling, against a wall. Then hold for one minute. Repeat this three times. Then go into a straddle split as you would normally and hold for thirty seconds.

Cool down. Just use the stretches from your warm-up but backwards slowly, and carefully. This transitions your body from exercising mode and reduces chance of injury.

P.S.: You may feel numbness during stretching which is GOOD it means your doing the exercises properly. Also, the next morning you may have slight soreness. This is because your body isn't used to stretch but eventually it will. If this happens don't stretch to intensely. But do stretch. Just do your warm-up and cool-down (the first paragraph is warm up, second is front splits, third is side splits, and fourth is cool down). If you continue to feel discomfort after exercising it means your doing it wrong, too fast/to hard for your body, or your warm-up/cool-down isn't long enough. Just relax for a day, and then start anew with a longer warm-up, less intense stretching, and a longer cool down.

Obviously you can break your ankles if you go on to pointe too early :P

You can get blisters, bunions, your toes can break, you could rip a muscle.

Their are many, many different injuries , some mor common then others :)

You can also get bunionettes, plantar fasciitis, HUGE blisters, ingrown toenails, ripped-off toenails, and pretty much any horrific thing you can think of to happen to toenails.

In ballet there are some key movements such as port de bras, plie, battement tendu and sauté. There are also five positions that can be viewed on the related link.

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well, that's how it is pronounced, idk how it is spelled...

u use these terms typically when you do rondeshons, all different ways.

this is just how i interpreted the question....

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Well there are many famous ballet dancers such as Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Nureyv ( not sure on spelling ) Anna Halthaway, Gelsey Kirkland, Darcy Bussel, Evan Lysacek and HEAPS more!

when mine needed washed my mom cleaned them by hand but DO NOT PUT THEM IN THE WASHER

Dancing

Male, no. Female, yes.

Well real ballet technically started in the itailian renaissance in the 15th century courts. That's where Cocchetti style ballet comes from, Mr. Enricho conchetti. Ther's also the Vaganova method, Russain style, perhaps the best known. Or the English style, like the Royal Ballet Method or The French

Legnani, Kschessinskaya, Rosati, Petipa, Baryshnikov, Mordkin

Lyrical is usually danced barefoot. Some lyrical dancers wear foot undies. Foot undies are padding that go on the ball of your foot. They help you turn and pirouette better. Jazz shoes cover your whole foot, and are more like ballet shoes. They can sometimes have a small heel on them.

Long legs, small head, skinny figure, and good feet

A leotard, tights, ballet shoes, hair in a bun, and you may wear an optional skirt. Most schools may be fine if you just show up wearing whatever's comfortable and functional. You can just do your first class barefoot or in socks. But afterwards, schools would prefer you wear the standard outfit. Girls tend to wear a black leotard, pink tights and pink slippers. Boys usually wear a white T-shirt, black tights and black or white shoes. Or sometimes dance schools have a uniform. But normally you can wear anything for the first class, and then after you have definetely decided you are staying you get the uniform!

To learn the beginning things, not very long. But to become a good dancer, you have to work hard for many years. So it really depends how serious you become about it. Good luck!

History doesn't record that. It happened before people documented such things.

There are different types But in general a tutu is made of tulle fabric that is either tied around an elastic waistband or sewn around it. Pretty simple.

Various websites sell the material and ready-made tutu designs.

It depends on the ballet company.

Marie Taglioni was one of the first ballerinas to dance on pointe, and she was quite famous.

That depends on how patient you are and where you find it. A Goodwill store in Tahoma, Washington, recently sold a framed Ullman print by Swinburne for $22.00; on the other hand, an antique store recently listed the same print by this artist for $195, which is overpriced but may sell anyway.

Generally, Ullman framed lithographs sell for $35-90 in online auctions and on commercial websites, and sometimes for a little more, $115-140, at live auctions. On the other hand, you may find them for just a few dollars at a thrift store, flea market or garage sale.

Ullman Manufacturing Co. mass marketed inexpensive offset lithos, puzzles and postcards, so even the older prints are still easy to find and, therefore, not terribly valuable.

In the early 1400's in Italy. Ballet used to just be men in heavy costumes doing ballroom dancing.

Structural Integration wil improve your turnout in Ballet if you are restricted by connective tissue. Structural Integration is excellent for increasing range of motion. it also can improve posture, performance, and make you more connected to your own body. For more information visit http://www.anatomytrains.com/kmi/experience Good luck with your turnout!

A prima ballerina is the french term for a principle. When she has been appointed by the Director, that is when she becomes a Prima Ballarina. Even if a ballerina does lead roles, she may NOT be a PB. A prima ballerina was also a term placed upon a dancer by the Zar of russia along time ago

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Giselle is one of the most famous ballets.

The ballet opens with Albrecht who is perusing Giselle, the attractive peasant girl. Albrecht goes on to lead Giselle to think that he is a farmer with the name of Loys who Giselle falls in love with. During this time she is unaware that the man is already betrothed to the daughter of the duke, Bathilde. She agrees to marry him despite Hilarion's, another peasant, romantic advancements and suspects that Albrecht is an imposter. Giselle wants to dance but is warned by her mother that she has a weak heart. Hilarion tells Giselle that Albrecht has been untruthful to her and that he is a nobleman in reality. Not long after, Bathilde reveals to Giselle that Albrecht is definitely her fiancé. Giselle is horrified, becomes weak, and soon dies of a broken heart.

The second act starts in the setting of a forest at the side of Giselle's grave. The ghostly Wilis, virgins who died of unrequited love, are called upon by their queen to accept Giselle as one of their own. When Hilarion stops by the grave, the Wilis make him dance to his death. But when Albrecht arrives, Giselle, who has become a Wili herself, dances with him until the Wilis' power is lost, when the clock strikes four. It is then that Albrecht realizes that Giselle has saved him and he cries at her grave.