Welcome to Focus Class 2 : Turnout & Alignment, guided by Constanza Belgareto.

This class is a complete warm-up designed to help young dancers mindfully strengthen their external rotation and full-body alignment during the earliest stages of their training.

Over a series of targeted exercises, we’ll explore key concepts like pelvic stability, weight placement, and deep rotator activation. Many of these exercises will be done at the barre, which is always an excellent tool for developing technical foundations. By adding additional elements like the resistance band or Fusion Ball, dancers will enhance their proprioception. By the end of the session, dancers should have a deeper understanding and physical awareness of what correct alignment actually feels like in their own bodies.

Exercises like Alignment & Stability and Balance with Weight Transfer will help dancers explore how to organise their posture in space, recognise specific muscular engagement, and maintain turnout during movement. As always, we’ll end the session with a gentle warm down to support soft tissue adaptation and recovery.

Tips:

Emphasise that turnout comes from the deep rotators, not from squeezing the glutes.

Guide dancers in discovering how pelvic alignment and muscle activation work together to support precise movement.

Reinforce that proprioception is the foundation of technique—if they can’t feel the correct muscular engagement and alignment, they won’t be able to apply it in a class or performance.

The band and ball are not just props! Try to use them to actively enhance body awareness. Every exercise is designed to develop functional turnout.