How to do fondus — Easy Ballet Class! скачать в хорошем качестве

How to do fondus — Easy Ballet Class!

Fondus are a great way of strengthening your legs and core and improving your stability on one foot. The strength you build with fondus will make you able to jump higher and land softer 00:00 Intro 00:30 Intro and defining fondu 01:55 Fondu front (devant) 02:59 Fondu back (derrier) 03:59 Fondu side (a la seconde) Goodday, Daniel here, welcome to Swanpuddle. This channel is here to help you become a better and stronger dancer. Hit subscribe if you like this content and hit the bell icon to When beginners learn “fondus” they learn this type of fondu, but fondu is actually a word that is used more generally to refer to any movement where you are standing on one leg and you bend your standing leg’s knee. So it’s a very simple concept. If you are in a ballet class you may hear a teacher say arabesque en fondu or promenade en fondu. When they say that they just mean your standing leg is bent at some point. But in this video we’re focusing on this specific fondu. It is a good starting point to jump off into all the other variations of fondus Like almost all ballet steps, fondus can be done to the front, back, and side. The first fondu in a series of fondus typically begins in fifth, but they can begin with the leg extended in any direction, in retire and coupe. The leg can extend to any height in a fondu, but in this video we’ll focus on fondus extending to 45 degrees. Let’s look at fondu front. For fondu front, feet begin in fifth position. Plie on both feet and as you plie articulate your front foot off the floor to a pointed coup de pied position. The baby toe of that foot should be connected to the part of the ankle that sticks out. This position is called coup de pied. The knees continue to bend until you can’t bend at your ankle any more. At that point begin to stretch both knees while you extend the front leg in front of you. Think of making the heel lead this motion and try to rotate it out to help you maintain the most turnout. The toes of the foot should be tracing a straight diagonal line upward. Your knees should finish straightening at the same time and the front leg should form a 45 degree angle with your standing leg. If the exercise you’re doing has multiple fondus in a row, the front foot’s toes trace the same diagonal line back to coup de pied as you bend both knees. Fondu back starts in fifth. Articulate your back foot off the floor to coupe de pied back as you bend both knees. In this position the big toe is connected to the bump on the outside of your ankle. Continue to bend the knees until your ankle cannot bend any more. Then begin to straighten your front knee as you extend the back leg behind you. Focus on turning out the leg by imagining that you are leading the movement with the back of the knee. Think about drawing a diagonal line upward with your toes as you do so. Both knees should finish straightening at the same time and the back leg should be at a 45 degree angle with the front leg. As with fondu front, if you are doing multiple fondus, the back leg retraces its movement back to coup de pied as the standing leg bends. There are two types of fondu side. Fondu side where the leg passes through coup de pied front and fondu side where the leg passes through coup de pied back. Both are quite similar though. To begin, start in fifth with either leg in front. Plie and articulate the working leg to either coupe de pied back or front. Continue to bend both knees while you keep the working foot in a clear coup de pied position. Once you reach the point where your working ankle can’t bend any more, begin to straighten the standing knee, extending the working leg to the side. Both knees should finish straightening at the same time as the working leg extends to form a 45 degree angle with the standing leg. If the exercise you are dancing calls for multiple fondus, retrace the movement of the extended leg back to coup de pied as you bend the standing leg. Here are three goals to work towards in your fondus: Keep the hips level at all points in the fondu. The working hip will have a tendency to want to tilt up a bit, so watch out for that. Try to keep the working leg directed directly to the front if you’re doing fondu front, directly side if you are going to the side, and directly to the back if you are doing back. Try to avoid the leg going to either the front side corner or the back side corner. The most important thing about a fondu is the quality of movement. The movement should give your audience the impression that you are moving through molasses. This means there are no sudden movements, everything happens with slow, steady control. Okay, that’s it for this video. If you would like to learn about the other types of fondus, leave a comment to let me know and I might make a video about it. If you liked the video give it a thumbs up and if you want to see more content like this, hit subscribe and turn on notifications by clicking the bell icon.