How To Do A Fouette

Okay, so how to do a fouette. At first, we need to start right at the basic beginning. So, you need to take a step and you brush your foot to a sort of diagonal position here and the fouette's all about the rotation in the leg.

So, you have to pivot the underneath leg, turning around to an arabesque position with your toe on the floor and that is your basic fouette there. If I did it a little bit faster, so brush through and fouette. That's it and that's staying on the flat foot.

You can do it then with the leg raised, so you can take it through, take it with your arms and then open it to arabesque. It can also be done on a demi-pointe in a nice quick sharp whipped movement. So, you take it up and that's your fouette, okay.

You could also do a fouette as in a turn. So, fouette's not just the whip of the leg taking to arabesque, you can do it in a turning motion. So, the leg would go en avant, go out to second and pull it in, and this would be your turn.

So to start it here, you would need to do a pirouette en dedans this way, finishing devant and turn and turn and turn and finish, okay. And that's your fouette. So, to go through it all again, take it from your basic and you brush through.

You can take your arms to en avant to a first position here, open them out into your first arabesque and then to whip the movement, take it through and open. And again, on demi-pointe, up and hold, and remember when you're turning that you've got to use your arms and your shoulders to help get you around. So, when you're up on your pirouette position here, extending out, whip the arms in tight and again and whip, forward and whip.

And that's how to do a fouette. .