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Good get a grip on of balance and stability of the foot and ankle are crucial in virtually any dancer. However many dancers are unaware of the many things that how to educate the parts independently, and combine to provide you with good balance. Your supporting foot wobble may be made by poor balance reactions and you might find it hard to secure en demi-pointe, or be constantly corrected for rolling arches! Bad balance in your supporting leg is really a huge barrier in increasing how large you can raise your leg en l'air, as you will be working off a shaky base.

There are so a lot of things that may affect your balance, including; your vision; your sensation of where your foot and ankle ligaments are (proprioception), and the balance detectors that really stay as part of your inner ear. It's very important to train the balance of the ankle while eliminating 1 or 2 of the feedback systems that we use to build up all areas of the complete system. Several performers rely far too much on their vision to keep up their balance, and this becomes an issue when turning or doing in low light conditions.

Test yourself and the effectiveness of each system by trying each of the next exercises. Try sitting on an individual leg in parallel or turnout, with each of the following variations:

Closing your eyes.

Looking at a, or soft foam pad.

Take to turning your face from sideways.

Tilting the pinnacle from sideways.

Try a fondu/small knee bend on each leg.

Try each of the above in bare feet and then in your pointe shoes, If you should be currently in pointe shoes and feel the big difference!

Most of these are good tests and training ideas for improving your control of one's legs. Make sure to always turn on your strong turnout muscles and primary backing muscles when balancing in turnout, which means your hips dont twist a lot of!

Developing get a grip on of the little intrinsic muscles of the feet are necessary to developing good balance. Many perfect exercises for this are explained in The Perfect Pointe Book, a resource created especially for performers to achieve perfect get a handle on of their feet and ankles. It is a vital part of any dance education whether the dancer is en pointe.