My ballet lesson | Dancing on pointe - Karolina Protsenko 

We should have known you were taking ballet lessons the way you dance and twirl playing your violin. Thank you for blessing us. May our wonderful saviour continue to display his precious gifts in your life

Aww... Mom and Karolina are so sweet and loving towards each other. As it should be

Love seeing work in progress and not just perfection later on. Thank you for letting us see. I love watching ballet practice more than actual performances 💖😊💖

You did beautifully. You are such a hard worker.

Serious Ballerinas are no joke! They are hardcore athletes, and Ballet training makes everyone a better dancer, even if they are not performing Ballet as their primary style of dance. Kudos to you for be willing to put in this hard work to make yourself an even better performer!✨💖✨

Keep up your passion, Karolina and you're such an inspiration to so many people around the world, including me!

Amazing young lady, your mum and dad are just the most beautiful people 😀

I'm so glad to see you getting real ballet lessons! Do not expect it to be easy. Do not expect to make miraculous progress. Stick with it! Your body will learn so much, and even your normal walking gate will become ever more elegant!

What an incredibly talented young woman. She's so focused and dedicated to whatever she decides to do. Always filled with energy and joy. To watch her grow and expand her talents as she's maturing must make her parents proud. What an incredible reflection of their love.

You're such an overachiever I am so proud of you and you have such a good body for ballet you work so hard I am glad you enjoy it I'm so glad I get to watch you on your journey

Can't imagine how much hard work and sweat you will pay and how painful your toes will be during your ballet lessons. But I'm very clear that Karolina you're the most amazing kid I've seen all my life.

Girl you were so beautiful and graceful. Yes it will be hard, but the joy of conquering it, will be Awesome !!! So proud of you !!! Blessings to you and your Mom !!! ✝️💟

Your multiple talents that you have are really amazing and wonderful 💜💜💜💜👍🏻

Tu fai un sacco di cose grandiose. You do so many great things.

You're so sportive and hyper active girl and especially ballet lesson you're learning so quickly, you're multi- talented girl with multi- talented skills, really you're doing amazing job there, waiting for more vlogs 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜👍🏻

Thank you so much for letting us watch your ballet lesson. It was very enjoyable, and it is obvious you have an excellent instructor. I hear you on your hands. I am primarily a flutist but also play piano and other instruments, and am a typist. Sixteen months ago I broke my right hand and also injured three fingers severely. I recently completed a year of hard occupational therapy, and still do home therapy, which I will always need to do. My hand is probably 90-95%, but joyfully, I am able to play flute, piano, and type (also very important for what I do) as before, and those are the important things. Everything else and even residual pain at times is secondary. It took a long time, however, and it was terrible to not be able to bend my fingers for months. So I hear you, absolutely. *In fact, in your situation it might be wise to insure your hands.*

Wow you have all the talents in the world, I love all of your videos 🤩💃

Es fällt nicht vom Himmel, Karolina Protsenko zu sein. Es sieht so locker aus, aber es ist harte Arbeit. Arbeit, die ihr offensichtlich Spaß macht!

I’m sure this training will help you dance gracefully while performing with violin. I came across Lyndsey Sterling videos. I never knew she is such an amazing dancer. Her audiences go crazy for the perfection in her dancing performances. . . WOW‼️

She really does have a perfect body for ballet !

Your like the person I’ve always dreamed to be. Your tall, skinny, you do ballet en pointe, and you play a musical instrument. I wish I could be like you someday😊

You are lucky to have such a brilliant teacher. She plainly knows what’s what. She gives and takes no BS!

It was awesome Karolina! You're a multi-talented girl. you can do anything in this world. I love you're ballet dances so much. Wishing you a bright future from the bottom of my heart.❤️😊🎻

This sweet, precious, young lady is an angel. She warms our hearts so much in our household every time we see her. God bless you young lady.

Good jod Karolina,👍 dancing on a pointe is very difficult, but you done it very smoothly in the first try , keep going like that , by time you will be better in that , lot's of love from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳❤️

That looks so hard! You're doing so well though. When you were in pointe shoes and doing those turns, my eyes bugged out and I thought, wow! She's doing it! Good for you!

3:16 yap this is the sound of pain in my ears 😂 I'm happy that you enjoy it and that you have fun, keep following your passions

I have watched ballet performances my whole life & always wondered how the training was. Your video, with the very kink & generous support of your parents, was very enlightening. I can see that learning discipline & self-control involved with ballet is a great help to a successful life. You are an amazing person Karolina! Thank your mom & dad too!

Wow Karolina, i haven’t seen you in a year. You’ve grown up so fast and your talents are very interesting, keep up your dreams with your talents. I know you have lots of talents, you can do everything you want if you learned it. Your ballet, your piano, your violin. Hope you can drams up what you wants! :)

Karolina, eres una gran artista en toda la extensión de la palabra!!! BRAVOOOO

Thank you 😊 Karolina for sharing with us your Ballet Lesson Vlog.

Ballet is tough…no doubts about it. Take care & don’t hurt your self + develop all the right muscles…with practice comes perfection & I am sure just like your violin u will ace ballet too. All the best! 💐

It's amazing how Karolina protsenko can learn many things, violin is already a great success, imagine ballet, but don't worry and just the first trainings, from here one day, she can be a amazing dancer, and remembering, a great villain, so just trust in God, because God is with you, and that's right Thanks, said and bye

Girl, you are just so talented and adorable! Ballet is so hard, especially the point shoes!!!! Ouch!!!! Bless your heart sweet girl! I know both of your parents are so proud of their daughter!! Much love to you and your family! 🥰❤️

Brilliant , Karolina you are multi talented artist 😍, you can do anything in this world , God has given you extra ordinary powers, lot's of love from India 🇮🇳❤️

You did so well there. Keep practicing and if you love it and want to keep doing it you'll do brilliantly

Karolina you are so talented at everything

I can truly see you love doing new things and that you love doing. Ballet playing the piano and mostly playing the Violin.

Well done young lady. You show dedication in everything you do.

Love You, you are The Best girl That i've met or seen on RU-vid, and You inspire me to be better things in terms of learning always what I like to do.

She can Sing She can Dance She can Play What a girl!!! ❤️❤️❤️💐💐

I COULDNT COMMENT ON YOURE BAPTISM BUT I WAS SO BLESSED TO SEE YOU AND FAMILY THERE I LOVE YOUR FAMILY THEY ARE THE BEST

U got this, Karolina! Sometimes, U gotta give up things U like(basketball, volleyball)in order to pursue your passions(violin and ballet). Keep these other P's in mind: Patience, Persistence, Perseverance, Pursuit of excellence, a Positive attitude, and of course, Practice, Practice and more Practice. Take care, Karolina, and in your down time, please take care of your feet, because you'll really need them when U get older.🙂🙏🇺🇦🇺🇲❤️

Great job Karolina on your ballet lessons, you looked so great with your pointed shoes !!😘❤

❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰 u are a multi-talented girl I love your music so much💕💕💕❣️❣️

OH, Another talent for this talented young woman!! YES!!

Omg that is sooo HARD!! She must have a great passion for ballet but I can tell it hurts…she’s already an AMAZING Violinist!!!! You’re sooo GREAT!! God Bless you Sweetie!! ❤️🙏🏼

Watching her move while she is playing the violin, she looks like a natural dancer...And now the ballet! Go girl go!

Wow- you are so talented Karolina - fantastic effort.

You are such a beautiful inspiration! You make me so proud and like I'm lucky to know you even though I've never met you! I hope you will always have a beautiful heart, the love of family and that amazing joy you share with us all!

You're AMAZINGLY talented Karolina and I think you'll absolutely excel in ballet as well as music!! Bravo!!

You have got this girl! So graceful, fluid in your movements. Keep up the hard work!

Sem fazer nada já estou com os tendões doendo, do de ver. Parabéns menina cada vez surpreendendo. Valeu.

Keep up the good work Karolina! You will make a wonderful dancer.

Sempre soube que vc è bailarina nata, brilhe muito voe alto!

WOW....what don't you do??? Very inspiring and keep on rocking Karolina

Karolina, I'm worried about you hurting your feet ! Because when you play the violin 🎻 the dance moves are one of your Coolest 🙆 talents. 🇺🇲

Fantastic, you have so many talents, I - in your place - would not know which talent to develop first. But you've made your choice I hear; violin! Great, you're amazing!

How is your straddle ? Can you do a full straddle split with your legs turned out? What about a frog stretch? My advice would be to work on your turnout with exercises and stretches as when the steps got harder during your lesson your legs were turning in and you don’t want that to become a habit as I know you’re aware of how important it is to have proper turnout to complete ballet steps properly. Your feet will get used to the shoes and will build up so it shouldn’t be as painful. Also the jumping onto your shoes will dig down more on your toes instead of the gliding and pushing through the floor (think the echappes you did at the barre) so it’s good you’re working on that! Having really strong pointe basics will help so much so don’t feel the need to rush into complicated things. Better simple and done well than too hard and can injure yourself. Keep up the good work. Love listening to you play the violin too!

Keep on going, hard work pays off. You are talented young woman 👧 😍😍😍😍❤❤❤❤love seeing you happy 😊

Ухты, какая ты талантливая. Балет, скрипка ,пианино, пение, кажеться ещё гитара и флейта. 10/10 слов нет. 😁

It's great you're showing the hard work,not just the beautiful dancing. The dance is usually ten minutes for years of those pointe up,down,hold,etc 😁

That looks so difficult, and tough. Hats off to anybody who willingly puts themselves through this.

such a hard worker. that must hurt your toes, hurts mine just watching! You look so elegant and graceful!

It is very nice to see that you are having a lot of fun doing this. You must have a lot of ambition with your violin and I think it's great of your parents that they support you and your two brothers so much! Keep this joy in everything you do forever!

Karolina, You are always so upbeat and seem so Happy! I love the FB post with You and Leo! That is so adorable.🤗😇❣️🥰

Karolina , I’m so pleased to see you doing so Well with your Ballet classes you must have amazing discipline to dance with the pointed shoes no surprise you look fantastic I don’t think there is anything you can’t do thank you for taking us along to your lesson 👏👏🙏🙏❤️❤️

Lolo 😊 what a lovely young woman! Such a heart warming thing to witness this joyful, exuberant dedication to disciplines that are virtuous and excellent!!!

Felicitaciones!!!! Con razón me parecía que cuando tocas el violín das pasos de Ballet una genia 👏👏👏👏♥️🇦🇷

The talent that enables you to play the violin well translates to ballet. Karolina you're graceful in many fields and they compliment each other.

Karolina; admiro tu sensibilidad artística interpretando el violín, el piano, la guitarra, cantando... con toda seguridad te irá muy bien con el ballet. Reciba un abrazo de oso, un saludo muy especial y mi felicitación.

Thank you for letting us come along. You are doing awesome! 😘✌️❤️

Lovely Karolina, I know how much you love and look up to Lindsey. So do all the other young dancing violinists. However, YOU do NOT need to be an 'also ran' or a 'mee-too'. YOU are well good enough just being yourself! Your subscriber base proves that beyond question!! So, Please! Dance your heart out but NO pointe dancing. Take the same care of your perfect lovely feet as you do for your hands. Dont cripple yourself out of envy or vanity!! NO coming back... God Bless and Much Love! Jerry

She does a laker girl kick while playing the violin with a smile, the nuts and bolts of exceptionality perfection

Karolina Protsenko, I enjoyed the video that you posted on RU-vid. Also, You are both a fantastic Singer, Dancer, and Violinist.

how nice to see you as a trainer for your ballet, you did a great job, dear Karolina❤❤❤

So awesome. It´s great to see our most cherished Karolina doing things, albeit painful, to excel in her art.

OMGAWSH Ms. Karolina you are a wonder!!! 🌹🕊️ Beautiful, gorgeous, athletic, the music and grace flows from within you. Soon you'll be dancing a whole Ballet with ease. Love your instructor. Oh BTW, OUCHERS!!! Drama classes are next!??🌹

Muy buena clase de ballet , eres sorprendente Karolina

Hi Karolina! You are a very amazing and the most positive girls that I met in my life! You give so many positive emotions to us and I really waiting for your new video. Love you 🥰🥰🥰

Hummm...I think maybe the next thing we see is Karolina dancing a ballet and playing the violin at the same time. I will wait anxiously for this. She already dances beautifully while playing...but ballet would be the icing on the cake.

Absolutely brilliant beautiful and so talented

Good work! I play the violin, and I also used to do ballet! 💕

You are really courageous to learn such a complicated dance. My Brother in law danced when he was young, in the Semperoper Dresden. So I could see it a couple of times. Of course, you are right, you should never risk your talented hands. You are a strong person, you will manage it. I wish you much success.

Wow that was a lot of fun to watch! It is wonderful watching a dancer at this stage of their training....They know a lot but are at the beginning of learning an incredibly difficult skill. Please post more videos of your lessons. Nice job and I can't wait to see you progress!

More Ballet videos please!!!!! I Danced for years. And I love ballet!!!!! Your doing really good on your pointe shoes🩰

You did great, well done young lady.

This young girl is so talented. Keep up the good wrk Karolina ♥

Tu talento es infinito y admirable Karolina..🤗🤗🤗

Keep up the good work you done amazing job you done well for the first time

Amazing!!! I've danced, on and off, for about 10 years or so, and 5 of those years, I was in pointe shoes as well (which doesn't happen very often, but I managed to convince the director of the dance school where I was taking said ballet lessons for me to try it, during a summer intensive, and then towards the end of the summer intensive, I asked her for her honest opinion and she said that she was worried that I wouldn't have enough strength in my ankles to be able to support my being up on full pointe, but that it wasn't an issue for me. So she invited me to take the Pointe I class with the rest of the girls, and so I did. (and then stayed in Pointe I, due to that I wasn't able to nor ready to advance (pirouettes en pointe is REALLY hard!!!), and also due to scheduling conflicts (between my work schedule and the dance class schedule for Pointe II). (And I've also met a lot of wonderful people along the way as well, some of whom would mock the fact that I was too chicken to let go of the barre when training for pirouettes en pointe, but that was all in good fun. They are very supportive that I was even IN their class to begin with.) Keep working hard on your basics. I think that I was able to see that at various points, you were still shaking a little bit when you are up en full pointe. A good exercise that I found that helped develop (in part) the strength of your ankles to support your pointe work is to do this: Starting in first: Slide your right foot along the floor until you have to lift the heel up, but keeping the ball of your foot still on the floor. As you extend your tendu out further, you will eventually come to a point where you HAVE to go up on your toes. And then reverse the process by leading with your heel and bring your foot back, where you have to roll through and articulate from your toes back down to the ball of your foot and then still leading with the heel, drawing your foot back, until you're back in first position. Repeat en croix. And then repeat for second, fourth, and fifth. And then you repeat the entire exercise en relevé, demi-pointe. The focus of that exercise is two fold: 1) The articulation of "rolling" ONTO pointe and 2) that you're not "JUMPING" nor "hopping" up en pointe, but rather you are stretching your leg out as far as it will go, and then to make it go even further, you go up en pointe, which stretches out the line of your leg even further. It has been my experience, especially when I was starting out en pointe, that to get up fully onto the box of your pointe shoes, that you are trying to "jump" on. The problem with that is when you "land" from the "jump", you're going to be smashing your toes into the ground. This is one of the reasons why pointe can hurt so much. Whereas, if you think about it more like you are ROLLING ONTO over top of the box of your pointe shoes, then it hurts A LOT less. (Believe me, I had the ouch-pouch as well, and I also bought lamb's wool to stuff into the front of my pointe shoes --- anything to make it hurt less.) re: turns (chaînés, pirouettes, fouettes) The trick that I've found when I was trying to get better at my pirouettes and turns in general -- Practice them when you are microwaving food and waiting for said microwave to be done. Depending on the layout of your kitchen, usually you might have a decent amount of open space where you would be able to practice your chaînés or pirouettes without hitting something/someone. And then to practice how to spot your turns, I used the microwave as the "thing" for me to focus on (because I also typically have to dance WITHOUT my glasses) so not only is everything super blurry, but I still need to be able to manage to find my spot when turning. So, since you're standing there, waiting for the microwave to be done anyways, you might as well pull some turns out whilst you're waiting. You keep doing that over and over and over again, and then you'll get better at finding your center and your balance, and being able to execute the turns, whether it's chaînés or pirouettes or fouettes. And the same goes with practicing getting up onto your relevé with your ballet flats as well in the snap of a finger. The idea with that is you just practice going from any of the ballet positions, and then SNAPPING into the relevé position really quickly, in the snap of a finger, because that's what you'll need to be able to execute a pirouette successfully. (When I was training en pointe, I was in a total of two technique classes PLUS the pointe class per week. Luckily, dancing as an adult meant that I can take the questions from my pointe class into my intermediate I class, and if I had more questions, that I need it "broken down" for me, then I would ask my "dumber" questions in my adult ballet class.) And it's IMPORTANT to ask your questions, because the most unintelligent question is the one that isn't asked, especially when it comes to ballet, and especially when it comes to pointe. (Because if you miss a step in your ballet flats, not really a big deal. If you miss a step in your pointe shoes, then you can potentially come crashing down, and that can be a really big deal, so it is super critical to ask whatever questions you have.) I struggled with pas de bourrée and pas de chat for a LONGGGG time. It's been said that "ballet is the pursuit of perfection without ever actually truly attaining it." So take comfort in the thrill of the chase. That's how you will get better at it. And yes, POINTE is super hard!!! I used to joke with the slightly older girls that the reason why ballerinas are always smiling when they're dancing is 1) because if you don't your artistic director will hunt you down and 2) because you're high on the endorphines from the pain of dancing in pointe shoes. :D :) Keep up the good work though! Have fun. Enjoy it! (I have many fond memories of when I used to take ballet classes and pointe classes.)

That looked Hard! I'm sure it'll get easier the more you do it. Good Luck !!

I'm glad you have so much fun with your ballet lessons. It gives you grace, poise and balance. Keep it up!

Omg you can literally do anything! Keep up the great work!

😲😯WOW! No words to describe my impression on you Karolina! Whenever you have free time you try to be busy with kind of activities and try to learn new skills! You are full of energy and keep making us surprised from every stage of your life💥 GOOD LUCK!

You are amazing Karolina, you truly concentrate and listen to your ballet instructor. You are brave and motivated to try so many things while staying true to your love of the violin.

Can't wait until you get good enough at ballet to play your violin at the same time. That would be very special. I don't think anyone has ever done it. Both take so much talent and practice.

Woooowww you are amazing karolina ❤❤❤❤😍😍😍😍😍

Watching you play the violen, the way you dance to the music, I often wondered if you knew ballet. You are very talented and determined! So happy for you! God bless you!

Woahhhhh she's so talented at so many things!!