How to improve your Port de Bras

Port de bras: (por-de-bra) an act or manner of moving and posing the arms.

So Port de bras is also known as carriage of the arms. There's some movements that have names like 1st port de bras, 5th port de bra. You know this if you've been dancing for long.

I want to show you some cool ways to work on your port de bras at home.

I've saw a little clip from a PBT video of Cameron Holmes with the Australian Ballet. Let me tell you, this is so much harder than it looks!  You can find it on the PBT facebook page. He's fantastic!

Another way to work on your port de bras is to sit on the front edge of the ball, knees ankles and hips aligned. Now go through all the port de bras techniques that your teacher corrects you on. Do it 100x until its right. 😉 The amazing thing about this is that you work on Épaulement and know if you're moving your hips. The ball doesn't lie! 😂 If you're falling off the ball or even shifting or bouncing while doing port de bras then engage your core and keep your hips square. 

Now go and perfect your port de bras. You've got this. 

Happy Dancing! 

~Karie