How To Pirouette
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I'm Alexandra MacDonald and I'm a first soloist with the National Ballet of Canada.
This season, I will be performing the role of Snow Queen in The Nutcracker.
And today, I'll be showing you how to pirouette.
Step one, I want to warm up my feet, so I'm going to do a few releves.
Step two, you're going to prepare into fourth position.
I like to have 80% of my weight on my front leg and 20% of my weight on my back leg.
Step three, you're going to releve onto your front leg while bringing your back leg into passe
and then bringing both of your arms into first position.
Step four, pick a spot on the wall to look at while you're turning.
This is called spotting.
During your pirouette, you want to look at that spot and then move your head around to look at it again.
The final step is put it all together and hopefully you've got a pirouette.
Now that you've got it, repeat.