4 Exercises to Improve Pirouette | Lazy Dancer Tips

Improving pirouette exercises will help you find the balance, coordination and alignment. To improve turns you will also have to include strengthening exercise for ankles and core stability. Improving turns takes time and confidence, with these exercises I will try to make you understand the rhythm of turns, how not to cheat a preparation for the turn and why your connection with brain and body is important.
Control of your preparation and turn is important to give the right accent and feel, depending on the music you are dancing on.

We will prepare your body to do many spins, but firstly we need to understand the basics behind pirouettes. Let’s start!

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[Noemie.L]

I did the first exercise about 30 times over the past few weeks and I can see a huge improvement in my turns. My balance really improves and my feet on the floor doesn't move anymore. Thank you so much for your video :)

[yogaforballet]

Oooh. This is what I need. Turns are my nemesis. I can't wait to try this later!

[sothathappened]

i love so many things about this lesson! your facial expressions, the music, the way you exclaim "squeeze! SQUEEAZE! tendu! SQUEEZE UP!"
very entertaining and inspiring!

[onedirectionlover]

Holy crap this is SO challenging! I thought I knew at least the basics of pirouettes, and first tried this video after I got my butt kicked in an intermediate ballet class during pirouettes. I was flailing and am struggling to keep up with this video rn, but I trust that mastering this will definitely improve my pirouettes. Thanks so much for this, this is exactly what I need!

[meganjoslin]

This is incredibly helpful thank you. I can barely do doubles and now I’m doing my advanced ballet exam soon and need to do triplets on pointe. Thank you so much for this

[_daniel]

exercise #1 0:44
exercise #2 3:39
exercise #3 5:54
exercise #4 7:40

[gardnssnake]

7 years later this video is still helping people!!! Thank you!!

[babynature]

These are the best pirouette exercises I have seen!

[evag]

I've been dancing for 2.5 years and my turns are really bad so I hope this will help because I'm auditioning for my studio's senior advanced classes because I'm getting too old for the junior ones so I hope this will help. Thanks for posting this!

[pugluver]

You should do a video on hip flexibility because my hips are always super tight.

[Noemie.L]

Thanks to your video I understand now why my turns are this terrible : I have absolutely no balance while doing them. I'm gonna work on it. Thanks for these great exercices :)

[erholove_fitness]

Omdddd it’s so hard, especially when you are a beginner

[Bouloulaloube]

Please do more exercices for Pirouette, I'm in love with these videos!!

[allisonliu]

These are seriously the best exercises I've ever tried! And you're such a great teacher! Thank you so much!

[Kworldreview]

This is what exactly i need to figured it out how to pirouette!! i always got just 1 clumsy turn T^T. I'll keep practicing with you on this video. Thank you so much.

[helga_kf]

Trying to get back on track after quitting ballet for two years. Turns have always been my weakest move! Amazing video, thank you very much Allesia! (if only I had more space to practice, now I'm afraid I'll break something if I attempt a pirouette! Frustrating!)

[samanthad]

Hi Alessia, love this video. It's very important to practise holding the passe and these exercises are great. Quick and sharp too, I sometimes think I practice my turns really slowly but you have to just GO FOR IT and with these exercises, I'm slowly building more strength and stability for turns that I ever had. Thanks so much! :)

[erikabertolini]

Thank you so much. Those exercises are super effective!

[ОксанаРогачева-ел]

So usefull for a ballroom dancer too. A lot of thanks

[phedreBiOn]

Just started ballet at home aa a contemporary/pop dancer. I'm a fast learner, but darn ballet is physically challenging. I'm currently very bas. But, I did an hour session of repeating these exercises and I did improve, though still not great at proper foot placement and turning on which side when which foot is forward.

But I trust! Thank you x