Turnout is an extremely important element of many dance techniques. Dance teachers around the world are faced with the same issues of how to help their students’ turnout in a safe and effective way. Serious ballet schools very often will not accept students until they are around the age of ten because of the way the body is developing up to that age. They also will not generally accept students of fifteen and above for the same reason. In younger children it can be dangerous to over-turnout because it can cause overstretching of important muscles and ligaments of the hip and knee, something that can cause injury as they get older and in older teens the bones are already hardening. Most really young dancers are unable to hold their turnout because of a lack of strength in their muscles and, if you have tried to teach ballet to older teens with zero dance experience, you will generally find that they have great difficulty in using correct turnout.
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