Fouette turns

Lizzy Howell, 15, from Milford, Delaware, shared a video of herself practicing a series of fouetté, and the clip has been viewed more than 75,000 times.

If you have some basic ballet, jazz, lyrical, etc. skills, you probably want to know how to do a fouette turn. This is the kind that you see dancers do over and over and over and over and over -- how do they do it? Especially without...

Lizzy Howell, 15, from Milford, Delaware, shared a video of herself practicing a series of fouetté, and the clip has been viewed more than 75,000 times.

If you have some basic ballet, jazz, lyrical, etc. skills, you probably want to know how to do a fouette turn. This is the kind that you see dancers do over and over and over and over and over -- how do they do it? Especially without...

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Ah, fouetté turns: They can make even a veteran ballerina shake in her pointe shoes. Performing a seamless series of perfectly placed fouettés requires both strength and finesse. Struggling to get to 32? Dance instructor Stephanie Kaiser Green from

Dat fouette.

"In Cuba, everybody turns," says Caridad Martinez, a ballet faculty member at The Ailey School and a former principal with the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. Here, she walks us through the exercises and techniques that comprise "the Cuban secret" of pirouettes in general, and fouettés in particular.

Ah, fouetté turns: They can make even a veteran ballerina shake in her pointe shoes. Performing a seamless series of perfectly placed fouettés requires both strength and finesse. Struggling to get to 32? Dance instructor Stephanie Kaiser Green from