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  2. Pointe technique - Wikipedia

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    En pointe dancers employ pointe technique to determine foot placement and body alignment. When exhibiting proper technique, a dancer's en pointe foot is placed so that the instep is fully stretched with toes perpendicular to the floor, and the pointe shoe's platform (the flattened tip of the toe box) is square to the floor, so that a substantial part of its surface is contacting the floor.

  3. Ballet technique - Wikipedia

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    Ballet technique is also used to exhibit ballon, the appearance of gravity-defying lightness, during leaps. Pointe technique is the part of ballet technique concerned with dancing on the tips of fully extended feet. The core techniques of ballet are common throughout the world, though there are minor variations among the different styles of ballet.

  4. Contortion - Wikipedia

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    Difficult and often painful to learn, both men and women may benefit from studying pointe technique; however, most performance opportunities are for women only. Children do not begin to study pointe until they have years of experience and sufficient ankle strength, as well as being old enough to ensure that their bones are strong enough.

  5. Is the Tonal 2 home gym the best way for women over 50 to ...

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    The Tonal 2 is an in-home, all-in-one gym focused on resistance training. The device itself is like a thick mirror, with adjustable metal arms that unfold for use and then tuck away for storage.

  6. Gaynor Minden - Wikipedia

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    Gaynor Minden was founded in 1993 by husband and wife John Minden and Eliza Gaynor Minden in their New York City apartment. Its only product was the patented pointe shoe that Eliza, a devoted amateur dancer, had designed and developed over the preceding eight years — the first pointe shoe to successfully utilize modern materials in its construction.

  7. Classical ballet - Wikipedia

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    Painting of ballet dancers by Edgar Degas, 1872. Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique.It is known for its aesthetics and rigorous technique (such as pointe work, turnout of the legs, and high extensions), its flowing, precise movements, and its ethereal qualities.

  8. How Quitting Restrictive Routines Changed This Trainer’s Body ...

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    “The fitness community was so new, and it was cool to watch people change their body,” Ajahzi says. Soon, her perception of fitness revolved around caloric expenditure and being in deficit ...

  9. Arabesque (ballet position) - Wikipedia

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    Arabesque position with working leg à la hauteur, forming a 90° angle with supporting leg Arabesque penchée. Arabesque (French:; literally, "in Arabic fashion") in dance, particularly ballet, is a body position in which a dancer stands on one leg–the supporting leg–with the other leg–the working leg–turned out and extended behind the body, with both legs held straight.

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