How to Do the Bourre in Ballet Dancing

Video Transcript

" Hello! My name is Connie Hale and thanks for joining me here at expertvillage.com. Today we are learning some beginner classical ballet moves. We are now moving on to bourre. Bourre is simply in a releve position, again fifth position to releve. Bourre is traveling across the floor. With younger children, we like to say this is tippy toes and if you could notice my front leg how it is working. The front knee is bending, back leg is perfectly straight. Let me bring my pants up so you can see my knees a bit better. Bourring across the floor up. You can see my knee working and to the opposite direction. Bourre coming to the front and down. We can bourre backwards with the back legs doing the work. The direction you are traveling is the knee that is working; what leg in the back is working. All right. Thank you for learniwe like to call working. So coming front is your front foot. If you are going to the side, the side that is leading in the front. If you are going to the left feet switch. Whatever direction you are going that is the leg that goes in front and back. The ng bourre's. "