How To Do A Chasse [ Dance Skills Tutorial For Absolute Beginners ]

Let's learn how to chassé!
Chassé is a classical ballet term meaning “to chase”, so we can think of our back foot chasing our front foot for the duration of this move.
Start with one foot pointed out in front of the other. Put your opposite arm in front (ex. If you have your right leg in front, put your left arm in front) while the other arm goes directly out to the side. Both arms are straight and parallel to the floor with your shoulders pressing down.
Put your weight onto the front foot and then jump directly up into the air with that back foot coming to meet the front foot and touching in the air, before landing on that back foot and repeating this pattern by immediately putting your weight on the front foot again.
Example: If you’re doing a chassé on your right, you would start with your right foot pointed out in front. Shift your weight into that right foot and then jump directly up into the air with that left foot coming to meet the right foot in the air before landing on the left foot and immediately going again. “Right, Up, Left-Right, Up, Left-Right, Up, Left-Right, Up…..”
A left chassé would be "Left, Up, Right-Left, Up, Right-Left, Up, Right-Left, Up....."
NOTE: Traditionally, a chassé starts from a ballet fifth position, slides through fourth position, jumps to a sous-sous (meaning “under-over”, or a tight fifth position) in the air, and then lands in a fifth position on the floor to start again. While we are not being this meticulous about our chassés (and we rarely are in a jazz class), I’m telling you this so that A) you can have a brief history of chassé for trivia night, and B) while we are not landing our chassés on both feet in a fifth position, we also do not want to rock our weight back and forth from when we take off to when we land, causing us to look like we’re doing a hoedown. Nothing against hoedowns--it’s just not what we’re doing right now. Instead, really focus on keeping your feet mostly underneath your body, as opposed to kicking out in either direction as you do your chassés.
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