Athletistry Studio

Happy World Ballet Day!

Every week I have the honour of working with this talented group of young dancers at . It is the beauty of this art form that I get to pass down my experience as a dancer to the next generation.

So proud of their dedication and hard work 🤩

Joining me on Wednesday is Luke from – a French-learning platform on Youtube. A bilingual French/English speaker, Luke trained as a dancer in both England and Paris.

Thinking his dancing days were over the former ballet/jazz/ tapper ‘dragged himself’ back into university and wound up a post-grad language teacher.

He feels his language teaching is massively informed by his dance training and he is fascinated by ways of learning and the art of goal setting.

He has recently completely a video guide on accurate French pronunciation for ballet terms for both the dancer and French learner alike, and aims to heal ugly French ballet pronunciation the world over!

Time for some rond de jambe

Build a perfect rond de jambe Rond de jambe means rounding or circling of the leg.In this tutorial we work in the proper movement of the leg. How it connects with the tendu we developed i...

We must start with technique as a basis of discipline and understanding so that we can eventually free the artist within without second guessing our ability for expression.