Intermediate Technique and Performance Prep

This unit builds on foundational barre and center work to develop intermediate ballet technique, stage awareness, and safe performance practices. Students refine technical elements (relevés, pliés, battements, arabesque/attitude, traveling turns and jumps), explore basic choreography and mime, and learn health, equipment, and professional aspects of ballet in preparation for advanced study and performance.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze and correct alignment and technical execution of intermediate movements (relevés, grands pliés, battements tendus, arabesque, attitude, fouetté, coupé) in barre and center work using a teacher rubric and peer feedback
• Demonstrate safe warm-up, stretching, and injury-prevention practices and select appropriate footwear and hair/attire, as evidenced by completion of a safety checklist and practical demonstration
• Apply choreography principles to construct and perform a 16–32 count phrase that incorporates traveling turns, traveling jumps, adagio combinations, and mime elements, evaluated with a performance rubric
• Evaluate professional and performance contexts—company hierarchy, basic repertoire examples (e.g., Coppélia, La Bayadère), pointe shoe function, lifts, and audience etiquette/ticketing—and present findings in a written or oral report