connecting steps

Once in a while Joan will give us a relatively easy but nevertheless fun and challenging petite allegro combo. This one is so much fun and great for practicing glissades:

Glissade to the right, no change, assemblé under, glissade to the left, no change, assemblé under, glissade to the right, no change, assemblé under and over, entrechat quatre. Scissons pas de bourré to the right, then to the left and to the right again, scisson, end on scisson croisé.

A wonderful exercise and reminder to be clear and precise with glissades and pas de bourré  as these are important connecting steps.

pirouette fast

Last Tuesday night Joan had a challenging combination for us, a petite allegro with a pirouette and this is how it went: glissade,glissade, assemblé, assemblé, ballotté, ballotté, ballotté, coupé, pas de bourré, entrechats quatre, jump into fourth, pirouette close fifth. Start from the top again.

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Joan is famous for giving challenging combinations. Here is a petite allegro from her tuesday night class, April 5th 2016:

Start fifth, right foot front. Entrechats trois, jeté half turn to the right, assemble, changement half turn to the right. Glissade to the right, fifth right front, two entrechats quatres, glissade to the left, ledt fifth front, glissade to the right and a quatre, glissade to the right and a quatre, glissade to the right and a quatre, lift passé left leg and close fifth back.