Pas de Bourrée Galore
Test your core connection and control in turns with this across-the-floor exercise. Pas de bourrées do most of the work here, and plié is how you travel through them. Test your center and control in between, then take the turns at the end.
The front leg stays turned out as you step back. Plié on the pas de bourrée before the pencil turn gives you somewhere to go.
A single clean pencil turn, with turned out legs and a lengthened upper body, is plenty.