to warm you up and so in center wen you doing jumps or piques or some thing you use the plies because if you don't and your heel is not all the way down you can seriously hurt your self and it also gets you higher up when your jumping an helps you get around in pirouette's
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A ballet barre. You start using it around grade 1 ballet.
A ballet barre is a stationary bar or rail that is used by dancers, or specifically ballerinas, during warm up. There are two components to a ballet barre: the support mechanism (which grounds the barre) and the handrail itself (the part that the ballerina uses).
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A barre is a long wooden handle attached to a wall. Dancers use it for balance while warming up and doing stretches at the beginning of ballet class.