Breaking down the Rose Adage from The Sleeping Beauty  

Ballet dancers are hardcore, utmost respect for them

I’m no ballerina, but that sounds incredibly difficult!

My big toe is screaming just watching this. The level of pure strength these ladies have is unreal

Ballerinas are both extreme athletes and accomplished artists. Ballet is a lifestyle, a calling, a profession. Ballerinas have my utmost respect and admiration.

Too humble! Thank you, Anna-Rose O'Sullivan, Principal, The Royal Ballet!

My feet just cramped looking at that

She is a beast, ballerinas are so intensely strong and driven, we see these delicate women like they’re fragile when in fact they’re the opposite. So much gratitude to these women and men who dedicate their lives to making beautiful for art for those of us who appreciate the magnitude of sacrifice that goes into a production.

God that sounds so painful but looks so nice 😩

I'm completely in awe when I see ballerinas dance. All the hours spent rehearsing and it's breath taking

こんな可愛くて綺麗で踊っている姿はとても美しい。その裏で文字通り血の滲む努力があり幾度なく泣いた夜もあるんだろうな…😢❤尊敬します。

The unseen strength of ballerinas. So much respect for all of you.❤

The amount of training and sacrifice that goes into such a magnificent performance art!! Respect!!❤

I'm recovering from knee surgery and I can barely stand 10 min of balance exercises at once. Huge respect!

People say that dancers aren’t strong - that dance isn’t a sport. But coming from a dancer, I can truthfully say that in order to dance, you have to be strong. Going en pointe hurts and needs lots of strength. Doing leaps and turns needs strength, core muscles, and good balance. Thank you for showing us how strong ballerina have to be to dance this gorgeous dance!

Anna-Rose, thankyou for taking the time to explain this to people, most will never understand how difficult ballet is. Your work is beautiful ❤

I actually met the amazing principal/ballerina of royal ballet Anna rose O’Sullivan on a private tour of the royal opera house! She was very kind and let me and my friend take a picture with her! One of my best memories as a young ballet dancer! ❤❤❤

Ballet dancers looks so peaceful, calm and so gentle. But we do not know the pain, the patience and the strenght they've gathered along the way to perform such a graceful dance. It's just, wow.

Ballerinas are amazing fr what they put their bodies through to achieve such grace and beauty is absolutely amazing. And they do it while still looking completely elegant!

It is indeed beautiful but look at the toll it appears to have had on your poor foot.

Such beauty, strength and grace. That’s after years of training and dedication. I’m in complete awe. Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤

Oh Thank You, Thank You for all of your very hard ballet work. Take great care of yourself. This is extreme stress on so many levels and you also have to keep smiling!!!?

Absolutely beautiful and a testament to the core strenght of a dancer. I will appreciate when I see this so much more. Thank you.

I hold my breath every time I see the Rose Adagio.

Wow!! My foot cramped up just watching this!! Amazing skill and strength!! Her calves are amazing!! 💪🏼

I love that she uses square toe shoes (as opposed to the pointed toe), part of the reason she can endure what she’s talking about. Definitely helps. The ones that come to a point? I don’t know how anyone dances in those at all, but some ballerinas prefer them. My guess is, one reason is how they look to the audience. More delicate, too, some people think these are boxy. Also, the pointed shoes are the original type of toe shoe from the 1800s. I wouldn’t care, these shoes would be just fine! I like the look of these better anyway, as a dancer and as an observer.

The things we don't know .... Thank you for helping us know what we are witnessing in the beauty of this artform. Absolutely stunning.....

Incredible. Dancers are the most coordinated and strong athletes ever

Much RESPECT to you. I had to go to the hospital just watching you. Both of my legs cramped and stayed and I'm not even a ballerina at all.

She is beautiful✨😍

Huge respect and admiration. The reach to do this is unbelievable dedication

I can see signs of injuries that didn’t have enough time to heal… poor feet… poor body. It’s a beautiful sport and you are so stunning and strong, young lady. Shine all your might as you make us believe it’s all so easy and effortless.

Beautiful Anna Rose!!

Beautiful girl. I ❤️ ballet

I've never seen a Ballarina balance , barefoot! I thought there was more padding in your Ballett slippers? So Beautifully strong, and Amazing! Thank you for sharing your Art! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

These girls are amazing!!!

Ah, this takes me back to my ballerina days. I still do ballet, just not professionally due to my advanced age. You tend to pay for doing it later in life, but to me it’s worth it.

The sacrifices of a female Ballerina is just commendable and well applauded !!!. This is your passion and thank you for sharing your life to all of us !!!.

Definitely do not try this at home 😅 Ballerinas are so incredibly strong Jesus, they have all all my admiration ❤ I wish someday I can go to see at least the nutcracker, jewels and sleeping beauty, or Alice in wonderland at the royal opera house 😭

She’s so lovely and sweet sounding. And from what she’s describing, she’s a powerhouse!

That tutu is gorgeous

My mom was a dancer so she read anything about them in older age. She read something , years ago, that the average professional dancer has 7 broken bones and they're still dancing!

I have a ticket to see this ballet at ROH in May- really looking forward to it 💕

Gracias por tantos años de sacrificios, dedicación, disciplina y por tu talento. No hay nada más hermoso y que llena el alma como ver una bailarina clásica en el escenario desplegando magia.❤🤗😘/Monica desde Argentina

A feeling like no other. Shooting pain through joints, tendons, and muscles. With a possibly broken foot bone. Ballerinas are participating in an extreme sport while dancing.

Thank you for using your God-given talent to bring such beauty into this world! Much respect.

I remember doing Ballet as a youngster. Absolutely loved it. It helped me getting into gymnastics. As a 5 year old I was learning French pretty fast 😂

Ballerina's are tough along being beautiful to watch! They have beautiful lines!❤

As someone who loves ballet, but knows only bare ba disc, this was both interesting h educational…😊! THANK YOU!

Oh my gosh, all I could think of when you supported your entire body weight on that toe was “OUCH”!! Well done!! Such strength and beauty.

I was a violin and knitter just this past winter, and I saw Aurora do this on stage. It’s crazy to think she could do this!

You can tell how much strongness she has not only in her foot but in her entire body, even if you don't know anything about ballet just like me. Love and respect❤

So schön danke für diese Erklärung

So very pretty I googled Rose Adage and watched the whole part in Sleeping Beauty.. you can see the strength is takes and one thing I notice is how the male dancers take her hand and support her, not releasing her until she is steady. Now I'm going to watch the whole Ballet~ Enjoy~

Ich musste aufhören wegen meiner Wirbelsäule. "Unser" damaliger Prof eröffnete meiner Mutter, daß es für mich als Kind schädlich wäre, weiterhin Ballett zu trainieren, auch warnte er vor den übermäßigen Belastungen der Fuß-und Zehengrlenke und vor möglichen Deformationen..wenn ich mir Ballettfüße ansehe wird mir anders. Heute bin ich froh, daß meine Mam keine ergeizige "Eismutter" war und ich meine Kindheit (er)leben durfte..

... UMA ESPLENDOROSA BAILARINA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As much as I am very amazed on how arched their feet can get, it kinda made my foot hurt because of how *arched* it really is 😅

❤BEAUTIFULLY RESPECTED ANNA ROSE 🌹 BRAVO 🎉🎉🎉❤

Ummm....Can WE PLEASE get a bun tutorial??? Lookit that perfect height? 🥺😍😍😍😍

She's so lovely! Tough, too!❤

this made me feel so much better about my arch

all of her speaks ROYAL to me..she is just absolute gorge Ma shaa Allah

I watched the Sleeping Beauty in Stuttgart last year and this seemed so "easy" and in no way as hard as it looks when it's actually explained. Now i'm even more in awe at how simple and weightless the ballerina made it seem!

Unbelievably beautiful! A lifetime of work….with stunning results! Wow. Just wow!

Parabéns graças ao esforço e sacrifício de vocês, temos os maiores espetáculos de ballet do 🌎. 👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤❤❤❤

When I was an LMT, I had the privilege of working on and with several dancers. Their build and muscle mass is uncanny. She's so powerful and graceful!!

Respect

i don't know how that's even physically possible 😮😮 ... amazing strength & skill 🩰

Always wondered how many times have they broken their toes 💀

GOD BLESS YOUR STRENGTH & BEAUTY, WHICH IS YOUR LIFE ❣️ TRULY APPRECIATED ❣️❣️

AND you have to look like it's EFFORTLESS! Crazy!

Such divine and elegant skill❣️👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻😌💐 ("Sleeping Beauty" is one of my absolute favourites!🥰)

Society: Men are stronger than women Ballerinas: lifts entire body weight onto 1 toe

Literally working our every muscle in that few minutes. I hold my breath every I see a ballerina performing this. Always hoping she pulls through like a boss.

This just doesn't look healthy ^^"

I saw her in performance in Sleeping Beauty, she is such a great ballerina, a joy to see her dancing

A feeling like no other? Intense pain? I think people should try learning ballet at home 😌 however I don’t think pointe is actually healthy for anyone.

I never did ballet growing up and during covid began some online adult lessons from Everyday Ballet. I had no idea how much strength and intention everything requires. EVERYTHING. Even standing requires a lot of thought 😆 Stand tall, shoulders down, head up like it’s being pulled from a string, activate your core (which my PT taught me it’s like a Keagle exercise with your bellybutton facing backwards so I do that) Arms loose and elbows out. KEEP SHOULDERS DOWN. When pointing toe aim with pointer toe. When on toes don’t lean in pinky, use pointer toe/inner foot. All this and more I haven’t even imagined to simply stand and point your foot. Ballet dancers are incredible. If you’ve never taken a class, I definitely recommend trying a quick free online one just to have your mind blown 🤣. Also wanted to add: I never realized that the leg doing the movement isn’t the one that’s doing the most work. It’s the standing leg because that’s what’s holding you up. Which - duh - I feel like that should be common sense. But since I came in knowing nothing, it was a huge yet really cool surprise. My legs are full on jelly after a class

I guess that after some time they will suffer from many foot problems.

And so humble! My goodness how beautifully humble! ❤

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Wow good thing they put that at the beginning of the dance. She’s awesome.

Jesus is the way, the truth and the life!!🫶✨️✝️

Love ❤️ and respect All ballet dancers, strength, endurance, training, dedication, over coming pain, grace, beauty, A Labor of Love, Art in motion... ❤️Thank you, All for All You do... Learned so, much here about ballet, the body's endurance/strength, names for dance moves, ballet 🩰,ETC. 👏Thank you, All...

Ballet Dancers are beauty in motion. It’s not about the looks as it is their hard work, and graceful movements. Their abilities to endure the pain of the dance is to be respected

:) alles nicht so einfach wie es aussieht

You are a spectacular rose ! My 97 year old mother was a ballerina in Germany long long time ago ! Now her 3 year old great granddaughter is taking ballet . Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

No thank you

Damn!!😯😯 Absolutely amazing ladies!!!😍 Strength, endurance, grace, and beauty.

Her accent is sooo beautiful it reminds me of Emma Watson 💗

Respect to all the ballerinas out there❤️ we see your hard work and appreciate it💕

Beautiful, absolutely gorgeous elegant dancing. I miss doing ballet

My hero...I could never master pointe...I was in a company but went all against my body mechanics...it's fiercely grueling while making it look effortless

It's so fascinating how they can make something so painful seem so delicate. We see the pretty ballet dancers and we don't even think about how their feet must be hurting. Ballet dancers will always have my admiration. I did ballet for 13 years (I'm 19 so that's most of my life lol) but never felt good enough and stopped because of my very low self-esteem, but I wish I had continued. It was my dream and I gave up :( But I still enjoy watching those beautiful and hardworking ballet dancers do their amazing jobs. This will forever be so special to me

Pretty sure everyone's picture of a Ballerina in our heads, is this beautiful lady come to life! You are absolutely breathtaking 😍 💖

This takes so much skill that so few people recognize. The same can be said for Irish dancers. They are literally taught to kick their own butt with their heel every single time they step. I think it’s amazing how these types of dancers actually pride themselves on having horrible feet. But I get it, it’s a sign of the dedication you have put into your craft. And I have so much respect for it! Also, for men who participate in ballet, they look tiny but can literally spin around on their heels, while holding a woman above their heads. That is peak athleticism, sure there are powerlifters who could lift a woman above their heads. But they are not athletic, they could never get through a dance routine without passing out. Meanwhile, these athletic men, half of their size can lift a woman above their head and spin around multiple times, and then catch her all while diminishing their own aerobic capacity because they are singing the whole time. I would rather fight a slow bulky bodybuilder, then an athletic man who dances for a living. Because that guy can MOVE. A small man who can lift a woman above his head due to peak Athleticism would absolutely beat the shit out of a bulky slow bodybuilder. They would be able to duck and weave and never get hit until the big bruiser was so exhausted that he couldn’t fight any more. Just keep your distance small dudes. You can win a fight but keep the big dude away from you because if he grabs you you are fucked. Just look at Game of Thrones with the small agile guy totally dismantling the mountain. (We love you Pedro Pascal!!). But he got too close. A small man will never win in a fight against the bigger man if the bigger man can close the distance. Keep them at arms length. Dance around with little jabs wearing down their endurance. Do NOT get close. I don’t have any fight training but if a guy who is a jujitsu master at 160 pounds wants to spar, I am fat and out of shape but I am 220 pounds, there are weight classes for a reason, they stand no chance if I can actually pick them up and slam them down. I don’t care how amazing you do a rear, naked choke, if I can pick you up, I can slam you into a wall, or even worse, just plant my feet and fall backwards on top of you you might have skill, but you just got the wind knocked out of you. And you are helpless. Size does matter. I’m not a big dude, but no matter your amount of training, if you weigh 50 pounds less than I do, you are going to get hurt. A solid arm bar means nothing if your opponent can literally pick you up and slam you with all of their body weight into the ground. You’re gonna feel it. It’s going to suck. I’m not proud of being a fat ass but I’m sorry no amount of jujitsu and MMA training is going to save you from a guy who is that much bigger and more powerful than you are. I have been placed in chokehold by jujitsu masters. It was a little bit hard to breathe for about two seconds. My adrenaline kicked in at the threat of not being able to breathe, and my instinct took over and I just threw the dude over my shoulder with my forearm up underneath their forearm trying to choke me. I think it’s bullshit that certain martial arts tell you that you can defend yourself against anyone if you follow them. It’s bullshit. Because in the real world Bruce Lee would be leaving on a stretcher if he fought Tyson Fury. A fat guy. The man has absolutely decimated other fighters who make him look like a fat turd. Why? Because he is bigger than them. I actually can’t stand him because I feel like if you want to compete like that, you are insulting everyone by choosing to be so fucking fat like you don’t give a shit. But apparently he does not need to give a shit, he beats the shit out of other Guys who look like bodybuilders with ease.

Wow! That must be super hard and challenging. No wonder ballerinas are so strong and have to train so hard! I must say, that for us, the public, it is amazing to watch!

So beautiful inside and out!! 😊

I have a great respect and admiration for the ballet performers. ❤

That sounds so daunting. But hats off to you for overcoming your nerves and pulling it off especially infront of an audience

I remember getting my first pointe shoes. I was absolutely thrilled! I didn’t realize what torture chambers they are for the feet! My big toe nail turned black and fell off. I wouldn’t trade that time for the world!