| What ballet movements and ballet positions will | | | | devant and derriere will eventually produce a good |
| result in clean accurate split leaps? The first | | | | grand jete en avant, the well known ballet split |
| exercise at the ballet barre, demi and grand plie, | | | | leap. |
| your posture, the placement of your weight and | | | | A demi plie take off in a basic jump in first |
| the strength of your turnout, is the foundation of | | | | position without posture changing, or the turnout |
| your ballet positions and ballet movements. Your | | | | decreasing or the heel coming off the ground, is a |
| split leaps, and even fancier allegro depends on it. | | | | secure take off. As you progress to more |
| Starting with your primary level ballet classes, | | | | advanced jumps, this ballet technique will continue |
| understanding and being able to execute correct | | | | to support good positions and a good quality of |
| posture as well as an accurate grand battment | | | | balon, or easy bounce. |