How To Do A Ballet Brise

Okay, so today, we're going to show you how to do a brise. Now, a brise comes really after you've learnt your assemblé. So, a brise is an assemblé but it travels a little bit and it's beaten.

So, we need to know how to beat our legs. So, let's first look at the assemblé part of our brise. Normally, the assemblé comes over joints and it doesn't really travel that much and it should stay straight underneath you.

Now, a brise is more lent over, so with the brise, we'll assemblé and lean over and our leg, you will travel towards the shooting leg that goes out. So, to show you just a brise without the beat, it's just a joined assemblé that travel slightly. So now, we have to beat it which is the difficult part.

So, we need to beat our legs. You're going to need to beat it behind and in front so the leg would go back-front as you jump in the air. So, here is a brise and that way, you have to land in that fifth position with a plie.

So, you're beating back-front and that would be a brise over. So, I'll show you again, plie, brise, that way and that is one of your brises. Okay, so we're going to move on to a more advanced brise now.

So, when you're more confident with your regular brises over and under, so you have your brise over and under that way, we can also do brise vole which is a thrown brise and they come in series generally. So, you're going to take your back foot and do a brise finishing with the other leg in front, brise here, then you're going to sweep the leg around and do a brise to finish with the leg behind. So if I do it in a series for you, so you can swing it around and that would be a brise vole.

Also, you can break up your brise into a brise en jete which is a pretty step here and you can brise and jete. And that's a variety if ballet brises. .