How To Do A Pique Ballet Movement

Okay, so I'm going to go and show you how to do a pique. First of all, we're going to start at the bar. This is where our pique starts here and it's a sharp pricked or picked movement.

So, with the foot, you might add it into a tendu or a battement tendu exercise where you pique the foot and it has to be a very sharp sudden movement. You might move and pique and pique. You could even do a double pique, which is two, two pique movements here and they might be in combination at a training exercise at the bar.

So, you might have some glissades with a pique in the end there. And the pique then turns into, as some other people might notice, the portee. So, the pique into arabesque would then look that way.

So, you just go and onto your foot. I'm just going to show you the other way, onto a demi-pointe and pique up and close. Then, you also have pique turns depending on where you turn.

So, you extend your foot this way and you would go into a turn. So, your pique will go into a retiré at the back and then come down and this is where you would first start to learn your pique turns. You can then turn the pique turn with a good whip of the head, so focusing in the corner here, you're going to pique onto your demi-pointe and keep looking in the corner as you do your turn and come down.

Pique and stop. Pique and stop. And those are your piques and pique turns. .