Building Fouetté

From: Pointe | Date: December 1, 2006| Author: Lewis, Kristin | Copyright information

American Ballet Theatre's Lupe Serrano breaks down this virtuoso step.

Consecutive fouettés are dazzling steps that every classical ballerina must master. And these days, it isn't enough just to do 32-double and triple turns have become the standard by which technicians are measured. Here, Lupe Serrano, the former American Ballet Theatre principal who currently teaches company class at ABT and is on faculty at ABT's Jacqueline Kennedy Onnasis School, shares how she teaches fouettés.<...