Teacher’s Guide to Turns, Vol. 1 – Digital Download

Teacher’s Guide to Turns, Vol. 1 by Janice Barringer offers specific components of turns that will strengthen the technique in your dancer so they can perform technically correct turns. As with everything in ballet, the student must start slowly and methodically, building up all body sections until they are ready to perform their tasks. We often work backward by teaching the finished movement and then trying to figure out what went wrong. The eventual mistakes can always be traced back to failing to perform the elementary procedures properly.

The digital download includes:

⚠️ Please download to a computer, not a mobile device.

• Video of the breakdown and performance of 15 Exercises designed to improve turns
• Music for each ballet exercise.
• Technique Notes

Bonus: Verbal Discussion and Explanations of

• The importance of proper placement
• The importance of proper port de bras
• Taking off the shoulder
• The importance of being “square”
• Spotting and eye focus
• Importance of a strong relevé
• Importance of not sitting into the hip