Anh's Beginner Ballet Barre #2

This barre is about shifting weight. You learn when to share it between both legs and when to move it entirely onto one, through temps liés, chassés à terre and alternating legs.

The idea returns in every exercise. Fourth position pliés, chassés in the slow tendus, dégagés that change legs as they close in fifth, and fondus that run straight from a chassé into arabesque. The last grands battements are done away from the barre.