Improving Dancers’ Feet and Footwork

Improving Dancers' Feet and Footwork by Janice Barringer offers a unique class for strengthening your dancer's feet. Proper footwork is difficult to achieve in ballet or other dance forms.

In this video, Janice discusses:

• The structure of the foot
• The movements of the foot and ankle
• Half pointe versus three-quarter pointe
• Rolling through the foot
• A variety of foot movements that we see in battement tendu, battement dégagé, relevé, sauté, and piqué.
• Difficult feet and how to improve them
• There are many exercises to improve footwork in this valuable class.

DVD Includes:

• Janice Barringer discusses the structure of the foot, metatarsals, arches, and toes, Flexibility of the ankle, Sickling and winging the foot, pointing or stretching the foot
• 6 Barre exercises and 3 Centre floor exercises to strengthen the feet
• After inserting the DVD into a computer, the technique notes and M4v video files may be dragged onto the desktop and used independently.