Ballet Steps and Positions

Pas de Bourrée is one of the basic steps of dance and one of the first that you will learn in your ballet class. The pas de bourrée is an…

Do you know what is glissade in ballet? This movement is an essential ballet step, and it’s usually used as a preparation for jumps and leaps. So, if glissade is…

Plié is a French term universally adopted in the ballet world that means “bent”. In the beginning, the dancers start to practice the demi-plié (demi means medium). And once this is…

How did the Tendu originate? Classical ballet is a technical and codified dance, with a common vocabulary for all dancers all over the world. The movements of the ballet were…