- Jul 23, 2022
Updated: Oct 6, 2024
Ron McKinney and Pas de Deux Photo Creative Directors Jessica Garrett and Alexa Culclasure discuss the poses and terminology on the official Pas de Deux Photo Dance Poses Banner.
The banner includes poses on Lyrical, Contemporary, Ballet, Jazz, Hip Hop, Tap, Acro, Artistic, and Leaps. There is also a section on poses for the little dancers.
Pas de Deux Photo offers the Dance Poses as a banner that can be purchased as a retractable banner. There are also additional guides with extended poses on each of the dance styles, plus groups and siblings.
The nice thing about this banner is the terminology that is included to help you communicate with your dancer on poses. It's also broken down by dance style.
You can go to our Merchandise Page to purchase the Dance Poses Banner and Extended Dance Poses Guides.
Pas de Deux host Ron McKinney's website: https://www.ronmckinneyphoto.com/
Follow Ron on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/ronmckinneyphoto/
Scroll down below to see the video.

- Apr 26, 2022
Updated: Oct 5, 2024
Pas de Deux Photo Director Ron McKinney and Creative Directors Jessica Garrett and Alexa Culclasure discuss doing shoots with dancers using the Dance Poses banner as a guide. Jessica and Alexa, who run Dynamic Perception Dance Company in Westmont, IL, talk about which poses to focus on with from their little dancers all the way to their advanced dancers.
Ron talks about the poses from a photographer's perspective, and they provide the terminology one needs to help communicate with dancers.
You can use this JPG template and order a retractable banner. We also will be offering a PDF on dance poses and terminology, which will provide more extensive info on poses, different angles, add in sibling and group shots.
You can order the Pas de Deux-branded banner for $59 here, or you can order the PDF (available after May 1) with extensive Poses & Terminology for $59. You can get them together for $79.
This pricing is only good through May 4.
You can order the banner without the logo on the left header (but still with Dance Poses & Terminology title in place). You can put your own logo in here, but it pretty much needs to be square to fit, and we have the banner in both CMYK and sRGB color profiles.
You can order the banner with no logo and no title so you can put your own logo and info on there.
You can also add the PDF with Extended Poses to your self-branded banners for $20 through May 4.
You can order these through our Merchandise Page.
Join our private Pas de Deux Photo FB group and be a part of our international community of dance photographers. You may just be beginning as a photographer, or very advanced working with the best professional companies. Or you may be an advanced professional photographer just beginning to work with dancers. Either way, the community always welcomes you! Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PasdeDeuxPhoto/
You can see some samples of our Dance Poses Banner, the Ballet Extended Poses, the Leaps Extended Poses, and then below that is our webinar on the Dance Poses and Terminology.



Pas de Deux host Ron McKinney's website: https://www.ronmckinneyphoto.com/
Follow Ron on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/ronmckinneyphoto/
- Apr 19, 2021
Updated: Oct 6, 2024
This is from the North Pointe Ballet from the western suburbs of Cleveland. They have a video here showing some ballet terms while one of their dancers performs that term for you. Farther down on our blog, you'll find an entire hour of a webinar on Ballet Poses and Terminology.
