Notification squad for life! Also, completely irrelevant but I JUST GOT MY FIRST PAIR OF POINTE SHOES I'M SO HAPPY OH MY GOOOOOD!!! My teacher even told us that we will have a small part in pointe shoes in our upcoming Christmas performance!
Yes! Pre-Nutcracker hacks! This is my first year dancing with a pixie cut and I have two leads with tiara headpieces that I'm not sure how to get in my hair, but just adding the wiring myself sounds promising! Looking forward to the stage makeup hacks! :D
My Q&A question- 1) how are YOU doing? Is your thyroid completely better? Do you have any performances coming up? 2) do you still do savvy online private classes? 3) what are your performance rituals? 4) what are your favorite pre-performance meals??
Kathryn- Thank you so much! My first Nutcracker performance is in two weeks--on December 3rd, and my bun stays in SO much better now that I used these hacks for rehearsal today. So excited to keep developing my hair-doing skills. Ly
Little tip for girls with long think hair for buns, If you use Big hair pins (the ones that are open ended) and it grabs so much more hair and stays so much better!
Please do a stage makeup hacks video and q and a video please! Both of those would be so helpful and I love watching your Q and As. Q and A question: How do you know if your pointe shoes are dead (for the first time )?
The first video of yours I ever saw was that French twist tutorial and I've been hooked ever sense. I don't even dance but I love ballet and your Beauty tutorials too. ❤️❤️
Just a tip, you can actually use the bobby pins the other way to, when you do it that way it's easier to cross them because they lock together and stay in place 😊😊 and adding hairspray to the pins works very well to
Q&A How do you keep from cracking or braking toe nails while dancing, both on point and in foot thongs. I split the nail on my big toe in lyrical class a few week ago. It didn't hurt or bleed (I'm not even sure how I did it) and it's almost grown out. Is there anything I can do in the future to stop this from happening again? Also, how should you treat/dance with with a split or cracked nail, both on point and bare foot. Thank you so much for all of your videos and advice! It's been a big help! ;-)
Thank you very much for this hacks. I am a Irish Dancer and it's very difficult to secure the whig / Fake Hair. Last Time I had 50 bobypints on my head :D I would love to see a Stage Make up Hacks video :)) Greetings from Germany
would like a video update of your hair/Thyroid. am going thru the same issue with hypothyroid and my hair falling out and my hair thinning. your last video help me when I felt like I was loosing hope due to not knowing what else could be wrong and change of medication/doctors looking for info on someone going thru the same situation.
Hi Katie! Loved this! You're such an inspiration for me and I was wondering if you could do a video on partering because I've been having problems while doing it. Sending you my love from Colombia xx
Great tips!!! Loved the crowns in the background!! 😍😍😍 Q & A How did you learn so many things about makeup? Do you have any recommendations like books etc for people who want to learn more about makeup?
that twist hack tho :DD thank you! watching this before my performance in 2 days. also maybe its just me but you talk kinda fast it sounded like you were on fast forward hahaha
this was fun to watch and as well learning it too since I have really short thick Muppet fly away hair I find this very helpful. I love those crowns . I have a question about if professional ballerinas also have jobs in costume designing I was thinking of getting involved in that while still dancing in training?
Hi! I have to wear hair falls as a party woman in the nutcracker… I have very short and thin hair of my own, so there is nothing to cinch the dang net around. Anything I tried, it just comes down with weight of the falls
My question: Do you have any advice on dealing with peers that brag about teachers liking them OR being "shady" aka rude to most people in class and don't even try in class? I'm wondering if it's an age thing or not since I'm two years older than the people I described... Thanks so much
Ever since I finished dance moms I wanted to know how exactly is it possible to sew a headpiece onto a person's head? Like I've always wondered how they did it, does anyone know?! If so can you please explain it to me 🙏
Q&A I've only been doing ballet sense I was twelve and am now fourteen, and I was wondering if there is any chance in being excepted into SAB summer course? I've been on pointe for about a year now. Thank you so much.
As a late starter myself, I have some advice for you that I wish I've know myself: don't expect too much from yourself too soon, because learning proper ballet technique is a slow process (as Katie says, it takes longer to rush). SAB is extremely competive, with limited openings even to those with solid technique, with the added challenged of it being Balachine stylized (oppose to standard ballet methods, it has many decorations). Right now, focus on getting a solid, basic technique (you need the basics to have a good technique to do more challenging things later on). Make sure you get the right amount and *quality* training (quality is more important thing amount, bc it won't matter how many classes you take if your teacher teaches incorrectly). At 14, you should be getting about 5-6 1.5hr classes a week + 4 hours of pointe. (Btw, ask if you can take pointe on soft shoes. It takes at least years of 3 classes of ballet a week before anyone is strong enough to do pointe, with few exceptions of people who have done ankle training previously. Trust me, I was put on pointe after only 2 years of ballet, and now I have ankle problems, which came years later, and is setting my technique backwards. If your teacher allowed you on pointe with only two years of lessons, maybe you should switch studios?). Doing Pilates, yoga, core work & theraband/ankle strengthening exercises etc will help. I started ballet at 11, at a studio with a former professional dancer as a teacher. However, I didn't have enough classes a week, the training quality was poor, and I was put on pointe too early. When I switched studios at 15, I almost had to restart everything I learned. I am now 16, I take classes with my age group, a level below, and a level with students 6 years younger than me 13 hours a week. Taking classes at a good studio and at many levels below what I should be at is the best decision I've ever made for ballet, I was able to improve so much and I am catching up. You likely won't get in to SAB this year, but don't be afraid to audition at other programs, just for the experience. It's terrifying, but it's a great way to learn where others your age are at and create goals for yourself to work towards. Good luck :)
Wow! Thats exactly where I am right now. I'm fourteen will be fifteen in January. I started dance when I was 10 though. Don't you feel like you have no chance because you started so late? Because that show I feel sometimes.
I feel like I have no chance ALL the time. Especially when I watch other girls who are younger than me but who are much stronger than what I am right now. But since I moved studios, started taking more classes, I can now look back on how much improved and changed from last year. I'm no where near perfect, but knowing that I've improved in one year and will improve a little more next year makes me happy. I'm never going to give up ballet unless I really have to. Even if I can't become a professional dancer, I know when I'm an adult I won't regret trying to learn to dance the best that I can. I may not dance as a pro, but I know I will take ballet as long as I can and won't regret all I will have learned. Yes, there are ballerinas who started at 14 and get in to companies at 16, but those are truly one in a million. BUT there are so so many dancers who started at 10, 11, 12, 13 like us but become pros at 20ish. I'm only 16, so there's still a chance, as long as I work as hard as I can. Even if I work as hard as I can and never achieve what I want, it'll be okay. Because God made a plan for us, and it will all work out in the end, even if it's not what we expected :)
For the Q&A: I'm writing a play that centers around an amateur production of Nutcracker and I don't know how "amateur" ballet auditions would work. Also, how would non-dancers get to go ballet auditions because I'm starting to think it's not like auditioning for musicals and plays (what I'm used to) where you just go and read the scripts and show your stuff. Do you have to be in a ballet school to do ballets? Sorry this is lengthy, but I want this play to be as accurate as possible.
Hmmm... Well that sounds like a really cool play! At my studio we have open auditions so anyone from the community and surrounding dance schools can audition. We all get numbers and are placed into groups based on age and skill level. Then we are taught a short section of the ballet (In my case part of Party Scene) and perform it a few times. After that we are given a character to be across the floor or a certain step to do (like for dancers en pointe usually do bourres). After that heights and such are often compared so the director can see how dancers look together. Sometimes there are call backs later for lead roles, but usually the cast list just comes up in a about a week. Hope I helped! Again, this is just one perspective.
Stella Mehlhoff Thank you so much and sorry that it took me as long as it did to get back to you (but, you know, Thanksgiving). But you have no idea how awful the audition scene was in the play 😂😂😂
hi! I have really long Hair and i need to get a small short curl. this is because I have to wear a french twist but have to have a few curls for the first scene. do you know how to curl your hair really tight? like any curling tips?
Ilse Smith I use something like a pencil or a chopstick, wrap a small piece of hair around it, and flat iron the wrapped hair. Keep it wrapped until it's cool, and then hairspray the crap out of it.
this was fun to watch and as well learning it too since I have really short thick Muppet fly away hair I find this very helpful. I love those crowns . I have a question about if professional ballerinas also have jobs in costume designing I was thinking of getting involved in that while still dancing in training?
Melody Princess Serenity Hi! I'm not Katy, obviously, but I know dancers like Janie Claire who started designing costumes when she was a dancer in NYCB and now is a peoffesional costume designer, so why not! Go ahead!
