Which way do you turn when doing pirouettes?

It depends which kind of pirouette you are doing en dedans or en dehors

en dedans you turn inward toward your supporting leg.

*if your left leg is supporting you turn left

*If your right leg is supporting you turn right

en dehors you turn outward toward the leg in passe.

*If your left leg is supporting you turn right

*If your right leg is suporting you turn right

en dehors

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en dedans

http://www.abt.org/education/dictionary/index.html

pirouettes

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Types Of Pirouettes

i turn to the left with my right leg supporting

You turn left when your right leg is supporting,

And you turn right when your left leg is supporting.

you turn right with your left leg supporting and you turn left with your right leg supporting

When Right leg is the supporting leg i turn to the left

and when left is supporting you turn right

i love pirouettes. :D i can do 10 in a row currently

im so proud lmao!

Oh God, I've had problems with this for a long time. It's so confusing.

Right pirouette:

Your left leg is supporting, and your right leg is up. You turn to the right.

Left pirouette:

Right leg is supporting, and you turn left.

The way I remember it is when you're preparing, make an "L" with your hand that's in front. If it makes an L, you turn left, and if it's a backwards L, you turn right.

When in doubt, turn towards your leg that's in passe. Ex: if your right leg is up, you turn right, and vice-versa.

I hope that made sense.

there are different types of pirouettes.. there is pirouette en dedan where you turn inwards and pirouette en dehors where you turn outwards...... for a en dehors if your left leg is the supporting leg you turn to the right and like wise with the right supporting leg you turn to the left..... if your doing an en dedan u turn to the left if ur left leg is supporting and to the right if ur right leg is supporting.....

hope that wasnt too confusing :P

if your instructor tells you to do a pirouette you may turn left on the awesome foot. until advised to do a pirouette en dedan (it particularly is a pirouette turning left on the left foot or perfect on the awesome foot), then you definately are wonderful.

You turn over your right shoulder when your left leg is the one you are turning on and the the right leg is in possee.

You turn over your left shoulder when your left leg is the one you are turning on and the left leg is in possee.

In this youtube video the man starts off with left piourettes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tl42pivlHMY&eurl=ht...

These girls do right piourettes at the 12 second mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjOsiXrupLk

I hope this helped!