What is the Height of a Ballet Barre

Height of a Ballet Barre

The Ballet Barre is just like an exercise handrail. Its function is to provide support to the people doing such exercises that make standing still a little difficult. As in ballet dance practice, a dancer needs to learn to stand on the toes. Therefore a barre is used to offer support. However, before purchasing a ballet bar, the main thing that confused us is its height.

Ballet Barre Height Varies From Person to Person:

Well, ballet barre is used in two ways. One is for personal use, and the other one is for public use such as in a dance academy or studio. This is because the personal ballet barre will be on a height related to the person exclusively using it while the height of ballet barre used by many persons at a time should be on an average height.  Especially, when an academy offers training to children and adults both. Therefore, to find out the best height of a barre, we will discuss the personal barre height and public barre height one by one:

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Personal Ballet Barre Height:

First of all, don’t believe in the information you find online regarding ballet barre because the information is usually copied from the same types of articles written by someone according to their experience. There are some rules you need to follow while measuring the height of ballet barre:

• Check The Ballet barre height that’s parallel to the height of your elbow.
• Check the ballet barre height that’s parallel to your arms; make sure the shoulders aren’t raised.
• Make your hands in the second position and check the height of the ballet barre to be parallel to it.
• Check the ballet barre height to be equivalent to the height of your hips and waist.

These are four recommended rules in which the height of a ballet barre can be found. However, if you select the best height of a personal barre then we come to know:

Perfect ballet barre height lies between your elbows when the arm is in resting position. Also, make sure the barre height doesn’t be lower than your hips because it will be too low for practice.

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Public Ballet Barre Height:

Now, the public barre height also varies according to recommendations of different studios.

• In America, 90 cm and 1.2m long barre are recommended by studios
• In Scotland, dance studios recommended Barre height 1.07 meters to 1.17 meters
• Francis Dance Academies offer 1.5 meters height for Ballet Barre.

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What Ballet Barre Should I Buy According to My Height?

Now, according to your height, you can decide the height by yourself. However, the best way I would recommend to purchase and decide to height is to bring a barre with adjustable heights. Adjustable barre is convenient because they can be used by everyone in the group, either in studios or homes. Such adjustable barre comes for kids usually so that the height can be adjusted with their growing statures.

By keeping these points in mind, you will surely be able to find a ballet barre with perfect height.

 

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