Center Test & Turns

A center exercise for finding your core, working toward pirouettes from a very tight fourth position, tighter than you may be used to.

The arms are square and linear, and they come straight into first. Keep your weight on the front leg and lift the back one without anything in your upper body moving. Build from a flat-foot lift to a relevé, then a single pirouette. Then do it on a walk.

Aim to lift and have it stick at the end, not to fall forward out of the turn.

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