Penche

OK girls, this exercise is to improve your penche:

1. stand sideways to the barre , left hand on the barre, and degage your right leg derriere. Do a back bend without pushing your hips forward and lift your back leg/working leg to arabesque and try and keep the "back bend" position. In other words you are trying to build strength in your back to actually hold the leg before you start tilting

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