Using the floor system, the Barre à terre is a technique based on ballet exercises for strengthening legs and abdomen. Apart from strengthening, it helps to increase elasticity, activates arms and legs, wakes smaller muscle groups helping to achieve movements with greater ease and accuracy. As a result, we gain “smart feet” and a strong core.
This is a course that offers the pleasures and empowerment of dancing, but without its technical difficulty. It takes place on the floor, usually accompanied by classical music.
The course is suitable for those involved in anything physical or even for those who want to just turn walking into a pleasant experience. The technique offered in a Barre à terre class can be integrated into any kind of dance, yoga or other exercise. All you need are comfortable clothes, socks, your good mood and your patience for a course that aims to redefine the relationship with your body!
Valiana Simitakou was born and raised in Sparta. Her need to engage in dance drove her since her school years to Athens …
Valiana Simitakou was born and raised in Sparta. Her need to engage in dance drove her since her school years to Athens every weekend, where she studied next to Christina Bescou, from whom she was taught classical ballet and introduced for five consecutive years to the technique of barre à terre. She studied dance at the Aktina Professional Dance School.
She lived in London where she danced with various groups and participated in inter-artistic projects. Valiana has participated in dance projects and has attended seminars, among others, in Berlin with Luna Park, in Tel Aviv with Batsheva, in Switzerland with Alexandra Bachzetsis, etc. Today, she studies to be theatrologist at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.