How To Do Reverence Ballet Movements

So, your reverence is taken at the end of every class and at the end of a performance as well. Reverence is to say thank you to your audience for coming to watch, your teacher for teaching and hopefully for your PNS or your orchestra. So, I shall show you how to do a reverence.

Standing with the feet in first position here, you take a nice step out to the side, present to your audience here. You're then going to turn into the direction either of your pianist or your orchestra and then present to your orchestra here on a chasse back. Then step forward, again out to the side, and then present to the other way with a nice chasse back through first position, bring the arms open to demi-bras and we can close in to fifth and that's your reverence.

So, an alternative to that reverence, we have more grand reverence. So, you can step to the side, look away and look out to your audience, taking the foot behind and then you go into a deep curtsy, extending the arms up and closing in. So for your reverence, you step to the side, point on deux and you're going to chasse back through your first position, on a plie and then turn on deux in front.

Then, take a step forward, another step out to the side and again, chasse back on a diagonal through first to extend and then draw the leg back in to fifth position. So, extending the arms and opening the arms as you step here to your demi-bras, you're going to draw them down to a bras bas to en avant and then open as you look out. Keep them there as you step, take them to a small second, bring them back down to a bras bas, en avant and demi-bras again and then back to bras bas as you close.

And that's how to do your reverence. .