How to Improve Your Ballet Turnout Without Forcing It

Want to improve your ballet turnout without forcing your feet, rolling your ankles, or putting pressure on your knees? In this ballet turnout tutorial, I’ll show you how to find external rotation from the hips, strengthen your active turnout, and maintain it through actual ballet movements.

You’ll learn:

• The difference between passive and active turnout
• Four signs that you’re forcing your turnout
• Why your standing leg controls your usable turnout
• How to use “heels forward, not toes back”
• Three ballet turnout exercises for strength and stability
• Whether stretching can improve your turnout
• How adult ballet dancers can develop better turnout
• How to maintain turnout through plié, tendu, relevé, extensions, turns, and jumps

The goal is not a forced 180-degree first position. The goal is functional turnout that you can control while dancing without losing your alignment, pronating through your feet, or twisting your knees.