The physics of the “hardest move” in ballet

swanSpend any time in a ballet studio, and an outsider would be hard-pressed to figure out which move is the hardest, but one stands several pointes above the rest: a fouetté, seen in the thirty-two spins performed by the Black Swan in Swan Lake.

Ted-ED explores the physics behind this incredible move.

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