WHAT HEIGHT SHOULD YOUR RETIRÉ BE? 🌟 When it comes to the retiré position understanding how it should be executed depending on age and level is key to achieving foundations and correct muscle usage. For young dancers and beginners, the focus should be on building stability, strength, alignment and control. The retiré position starts lower, to help the dancer maintain balance of the hips and literal balance, understanding basic alignment without straining their developing muscles and joints. As

ARRIVE STRAIGHT AWAY! ✨ NO SICKLING! It’s very hard to get the knee to retiré and not collect when we haven’t fully trained the deep rotator, hamstring and lower leg rotation. Firstly get on the floor and try floor barre. It’s seriously amazing for getting the muscles to train in the correct way and improve alignment. With beginners and even more advanced we can often go up to retiré and only after we have arrived in retiré do we then correct the sickle BUT I have already seen it! And so has you