How To Rise Onto Point In Ballet

Now, I want to show you how to rise onto point. Of course, it's going to employ all of your strength and all of your turn out and courage to get yourself onto point but let's have a go. So, here we go.

Firstly, you need to make sure that you have got a very strong lift in your stomach and, of course, your turn out muscles are engaged and that you are lifting up through the top of your head, and then you need to make sure that your weight is on the balls of your feet. Today, when Rhiann rises, she is going to pay particular attention to the quarter point. So, I'll show you what I mean by that in a minute.

So, here we go. Firstly, she is going to rise stronger and stronger through her body and up through the quarter point, there's the quarter point there, that's the moment that I am really concerned to articulate and then up, up, up and what she's thinking about now is doing such a strong stretch through her ankle and her body that she's lifting up out of her shoes. You don't want to be just relaxing into the shoe; you want to be lifting out and pointing your foot so strong that you are lifting out of the shoes, and then as she comes down, she is going to do a stronger lift through the quarter point.

Here's the quarter point, then the half point, then the three quarters and down. Let's just look at that slowly again because the quarter point is what is going to give you beautiful, articulated point work eventually. Okay, so, she is going to lift very strongly through her body pulling up her legs.

There's the tiny quarter point and up, up, up, really strong in the arch and then lifting up even stronger now as she lowers through the quarter, and the half, and the three quarters and down. Okay, so, thank you, Rhiann, that was absolutely beautiful. You can see how much power is needed to get through that little quarter point but it makes all of the difference to the quality of the point work.

So, there's the rise on point. .