Article: Hold on: tips for selecting a portable barre.(Essential Tools)

To get in touch with her balance and prepare for center work, every ballet dancer begins class at the same place every day: the barre. Portable ones offer students an opportunity to wean themselves away from the seemingly limitless help of wall-mounted barres and watch their technique from a different angle--and they also offer teachers a solution to crowded classes.

"When my beginners began holding the portable barre with two hands and facing the mirror instead of the wall, not only did I stop losing their attention but they could see themselves in the mirror as I gave them corrections," says April Joseph-Sykes, owner of Suncoast Academy of Dance in Palm Harbor, ...

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