The Five Different Types Of Ballet: An Essay On Dance

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Ballet is a sport where you express yourself using dance. You can dance on flat or on your tippy toes on pointe shoes. Ballet is one of many different types of dance, such as Lyrical, Jazz, Modern, Tap, and Hip Hop. Ballet can be danced to show feeling, emotion, and just for pure amusement! You can start as young as you’d like to be a dancer. In ballet, there are 5 main positions. There is first, second, third, fourth, and fifth position. First position is where you put your heels together in parallel which is when you stand in a straight line with your knees together, and open your feet to turn out. Second position is where you start in first, and then you open your legs, still turned out. Third is where you cross your legs and the leg in …show more content…

Some ways that you can hold in a bun are using high quality hairspray, hair gel, hair nets, or bobby pins. Ballerina’s also wear special shoes. If you are a young ballerina, usually 11 and under, you wear ballet shoes. You can either wear canvas or leather. Canvas ballet shoes normally come with a double sole and cross straps. Canvas shoes are softer, and are less expensive. Leather shoes can have both a double sole or a single sole, are either peach, tan, or pink, and are more expensive, probably sold to you at $25 or higher. These ballet shoes are tight, but also comfortable. They help you dance more freely. Also, you can go on pointe. Pointe shoes are made of wood, and you stand on your tippy toes when you use them. Some girls put lamb’s wool in their pointe shoes so that there is no pain when they go up on pointe. Pointe shoes are tied by crossing the laces and wrapping the extra around your ankle and tucking it in. Pointe shoes can be shipped from all around the world. Some types of pointe shoes are Bloch, So Danca, and Spotlight. All dancers have different preferences for their feet. You can be in a ballet performance or recital. A recital is where your ballet class performs a dance

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