Do All Five Ballet Positions

These are the basic positions in ballet that most ballet combinations (especially at the barre) will be started in.

Steps

First Position

  1. Put your heels together and spread your toes apart. Make sure to focus on rotating your hips out. However, if you have hyperextended legs you can open your ankles to a couple of centimeters apart if your knees touch. If you demi-plie in 1st, you should make sure you are not rolling forward over your feet. This will lead to severe injuries.
  2. With your arms, pretend that you are holding a beach ball with your arms all the way around it. Your arms should make a circle, and they should rest about {{safesubst:#invoke:convert|convert}} away from your body.

Second Position

  1. To do the second position with your feet, take the first position, and spread your feet a little apart so that your heels are not touching.
  2. With the arms, pretend that you are holding a giant penny. Pretend that the penny got much bigger so that to try to get your arms around it, you have to open them wide so that they are over your feet.

Third Position

  1. For the third position of the feet, place one foot in front of the other. The front foot should be touching the midway pointe of the back foot.
  2. To do the third position arms, bring one arm into the coin position, but this time a little below your belly button. Bring your other arm to the second position (step 4).

Fourth Position

  1. To do this position with the legs, take a fifth position (step 9) and then move your front foot forward just a little.
    • Fourth position with the legs is one of the main preparation for a pirouette or a ballet turn.
  2. Forth position arms are one arm in the coin position, but just below the belly button, and the other above the head but forward enough that you can still see it. The high arm should also be in the coin position.

Fifth Position

  1. Fifth position with the legs is the same as third, but the front foot crosses over more so that the front foot toes and the back foot heel touch.
  2. Fifth position arms are the same as the high arm in fourth position (step 8), but this time, both arms are high.

Sixth (Parallel) Position

  1. Although it is not used often, the sixth position is best described as the first position but with toes touching. The sixth position is also known as parallel position. The arms may vary from class to class, studio to studio, and so on.

Preparatory Position

  1. To do preparatory position, turn one foot turned out like in the first position, and the other in a tendu back, but with your tendu knee bent and your knees touching. The arms are usually first position arms.

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