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Maybe 2 or 3 years, you are completely turned in. You really should work on that. To turn out you have to use your butt muscle. A good exercise to do that is to lay on your back with your knees bent partially. Then roll up so that only your shoulders and feet are one the floor with your butt and pelvis in the air. Then move your toes out and your heels a little and press your pelvis up and squeeze your butt. Do this a couple time going out and then reverse and move your toes in and then your heels and do the same. And pointe your feet way more. Also your upper body plays a huge roll in dance, I couldn't see it though. Also you need to use your plie MUCH more and go deeper with it.

I don't know if the description of the exercise makes sense but thought I would try. haha.

Best of luck!!!

As you have said you teacher told you not to turn out all the way. What I think that your teacher means is not to turn out your feet farther than your legs. If you turn out your feet and not your legs you could seriously injure your self. If your feet are fully turned out but your knees are facing forward thats when it can be bad. Turn out comes from the top of your legs. Butt, then inner thighs, then calves, then ankles and then finally feet. The exercise I gave you above helps work out your butt. I have another exercise for your inner thighs if you would like.

Also you said that you were doing choreography so you didn't have to work on technique. When ever dancing you MUST MUST MUST think about technique. Every time you dance without working full out you get weaker.

"and i dont care if theres no technique cuz as i just said, i didnt make up the dance"

I don't think any choreographer would tell you not to use technique.

Once again, best of luck and hope this helps!

eeeeeh...Ok, I'll say the good thing first. You had nice flexible feet, and that's a good thing for eventually getting to pointework. (but stop standing "en pointe" without shoes, really, it will ruin your feet...google bunions)

I'm not being rude, but if you hadn't told me that you were doing ballet, I'm not sure I would have known. There is no technique, none.

If you seriously want to learn ballet, get into some classes. You are learning bad habits by fooling around and if you do eventually take classes, you will have to spend much time breaking these habits.

As for getting en pointe, I'd say within three years. You have to learn all of the technique and get the strength first, but you have the foot and ankle flexibility for it...and that's a hurdle that keeps many people back. If you are older (like 16+) and work super super hard at it, it may take less time.

EDIT: don't get defensive...you asked for feedback. No matter what the dance is, you can use proper technique. Technique is not the dance, but how you do it.

You do not say how old you are now. You should be at least 13 or 14 before going en pointe, otherwise it will damage your bone structure. Just now restarting classes, if you are the right age about a year. In your video, at no time do achieve a "hard point" this means that your leg from your knee down to your toes should be in a straight line. And you need to turn your knees and feet out to a full 1st position. Can you do a 5th?

About a year of hard work.

You need to work a lot on your turnout because you've only got half of it. your arches are ok but you actually need to use them: point your feet in everything you do! i can't really tell from the video how your balance/ankle strength is, but you really need to have that down solid before you go en pointe. many people usually go en pointe after 5 or 6 or 7 years of doing ballet, and so it clearly takes them a while. also you need to have mostly stopped growing or not in the middle of your growth spurt because your bone structure in your toes can get very messed up if you start pointe when your feet are still growing and changing bone structures.

Honestly, it is not going to for quite a while, at the minimum a few years.

*You are not turning out at all

*You are not using your plei

*You are not pointing you feet

To get on pointe, you need proper technique, not only ankel stregth. Please focus on the basics first.

Here is a video of 8 year old girls training at a prestigious Russian ballet school. It is only their first year of training. Observe how they are all using great ballet technique.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbemMIk-sFo&feature...

please, do not stand on your toes like that! Not only is it bad for you, but you must have proper support! You are actually standing on the knuckles of your toes, not the toes themselves. Please, do not even attempt this as it has nothing to do with your ability to be in pointe shoes.

Please take some proper classes, and when your teacher says you are ready, it is only then you can get pointe shoes.

Good luck!

Textbook style, it should take 3 years. I can't really tell fully just by seeing that, because to be on pointe it takes flexibility, endurance, overall body strength and technique, so i don't know. Im guessing 3 years, but it could be earlier if you are a fast learner.

Usually it will vary with your skill level, but you want to wait until your feet and arches are strong as well as your core. Without these you could get seriously injured. Ask your teacher about where he or she think you are. Other than that though, i would say really work on core strength* its the key to holding yourself up.. Hope that helps :)

work on turning out your foot more and point harder till it hurts, that really strengthens the arches of your feet and eat foods with lots of potassium so you won't get any charlie horses (those hurt very badly)