Product Review

Sleek Barre Technique was created by Flik Swan and Victoria Marr, the founders of ballet fitness company, Sleek Technique. As two women with busy lives, they created the Barre Technique system to keep them in prime shape when they are short on time or can't make it to the studio. These 3 x 20 minute choreographed programs are designed to give you a strong, sculpted and slender dancer's physique with minimum fuss. Each muscle-refining routine can be performed at a barre or at a steady chair or kitchen counter and consists of pliés, port de bras arm positions, leg extensions and stretches, based around classical ballet technique.

This DVD consists of:

Warm Up: Every ballerina knows the importance of a proper warm up and this routine is perfect to thoroughly heat your body and stretch your muscles.

Program 1: This foundational routine begins with upper and lower body floor exercises designed to engage your muscles in the correct order, ready for your barre work. You'll begin with simple sequences at a challenging pace, practicing pulsing pliés, relevés, poised balances and coordinating arm lines, followed by tendu, fondu & battement exercises.

Program 2: This routine increases in difficulty and pace, raising your heart rate with each balletic sequence. The movements engage your whole body with port de bras side and back bends and plié transfers, as well as quicker glissé and relevé exercises, moving up to sweeping leg movements and arabesque sequences.

Program 3: The final flowing Barre routine is the most intensive in the series. Incorporating all you have learned in programs 1 and 2 you will be pushed to repeat each movement at a faster tempo with the addition of grande pliés, fouettés and classical attitudes to elevate your heart rate and get you sweating.