How To Do Echappe Ballet

Now, I'd like to show you how to do Echappe Saute and, of course, you can do Echappe Saute in fourth position or second, but we will do it in second position. And we're going to make sure that we change our feet as well so it will be Echappe Saute Change. Right foot in front.

The first thing to remember when you do Echappe is that it makes a different journey on the way out to the way in. In that, when you start your Echappe, the first movement of the Echappe is a super so with your arms in first. So, Rhiann will just do a super so just to show you.

And super so. But now, this time, one step on front that, we're going to do a super so but land in second position. And super so, land in second.

So that's the first part of the Echappe. Of course, Echappe means to escape and you're escaping from that beautiful fifth position into second in the air. So this time, we'll do the third part of the Echappe.

We're going to do, hold it in fifth in the air, open in second and land and then can you show us the next bit from there, so we're going to do a saute second and close and fifth. And of course, the arms coordinate with the legs to come back to the starting position. So now, we're going to do the whole three things together in one saute.

So we go, and up, fifth, second, time close and close. Beautiful Rhiann. Thank you very much.

The usual tip for you would be to maintain your turnout throughout. One of the dangers might be that you could end up in a very turned in position when you are in second. You want to keep hold of that turn out and if I show you in profile, you'll see that Rhiann really does squeeze her butt when she jumps in order to get a good lift.

So we've got, and up there and lift, there and lift. Thank you Rhiann, that's beautiful. So, I'm hoping that you saw that her back was very straight and that she had a really good squeeze here in her, just below her butt when she jumped.

And so basically, that's your Echappe Change. .