GRADE 3 BALLET

Dancers line up in front of the examiner in the following way:

Examiner

4 3 2 1

Here is a useful set of videos of other dancers, taken from the Internet, which show the exercises from Grade 3. Use them to practice with. They usually use our choice of music. I think you will agree, these dancers are trying their best and working very hard. Enjoy practising!

GRADE 3  BARRE

Exercises taken in the correct order:

Plies

Battements tendus & Glisses

Battements fondus & developpes devant

Grands Battements devant

Grands battements to second and derriere

CENTRE

The video below contains the Ports de bras, Transfer of Weight, Adage, Turns and a version of the reverence.

Centre work taken in correct order – ignore the dance at the end!

Ports de bras

Ronds de Jambe a Terre

Transfer of weight

Adage

Sautes and changements

Glissades, sissonnes & assembles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58KMFq6Kb6I

Poses and temps leves – no video, because we make up our own exercise for this.

Turns

Grand allegro

Dance C

Dance D

Reverence – No video as we do our own version.

Exam Day – what to expect – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLouywuk5js&t=7s

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