I feel like ballet is more about long straight lines, calm and control, and contemporary is more about curves, expresión and freedom, and I find it cute to see Maria dance contemporary cause her ballet moves stick out hahaha she always gave straight perfect lines haha
yes, doesn't she, she has such grace and control, I have no knowledge of dance and both ladies are remarkably talented-but Marias training, her level of extension, so clean and precise. Great video-thankyou to both ladies!
ballet follows the 'rules' and stays within the limits of classical positions. contemporary kind of 'breaks' the rules and pushes the body outside of those positions.
Not all contemporary is like that I just want to point out. The way you described ballet there would apply to many contemporary techniques eg Cunningham technique and Horton technique. Cunningham is often seen as the contemporary style that similar to ballet. Contemporary can be very much like ballet but also the complete opposite. The Alvin Ailey company might be one you like for example
I would like to see the comparison of this style of dances but out of bar where i feel the difference is much more noticeable, after dancing both ballet and contemporary I noticed ballet relies on the little tiniest details to make the difference between coreographies, while contemporary relies on the range of motion of each step.
I like Maria Khoreva's videos, she is a very kind person and she wouldn't make you feel bad in a video. In other videos in this style, the person who creates the video starts doing really complicated things that he knows the other person won't be able to do and they make fun of it. That's why I think this channel is really beautiful
she does seem very lovely and yes has far too much class to seek to undermine another professional to herself look good...I have such a fan crush going on and I'm not even a dancer !
This was an excellent idea for a video! She's an incredible dancer. And of course the best contemporary dancers are usually well trained or comfortable in ballet. It's very interesting to see your lines and differences side by side.
I love when classical ballet is done in ballet clothes, instead of athletic wear. It always looks so much more beautiful this way. The leotard and skirt is lovely.
Both dancers are professional and beautiful. The main difference between them is the fact that Maria didn’t tired after all this combinations at all. Ballet trainings since childhood make dancers stronger and more endurant than other people. Amazing 😻
no the contemporary dancer is very endurant too, it's just that she allows herself to look human, it's not so much about perfection but perception of the movement, so we rely a lot on breathing, maybe that is why we here her
Now I kind of want to see how classical Chinese dance compares with ballet. They seem similar in many aspects but classical Chinese dance always creates a different effect for me, evoking different emotions and placing emphasis on different things compared to ballet. It's also different from your typical contemporary ballet in that it seems more exquisite, like fine embroidery as opposed to a splatter of paint or whirlwind swirls as one might find in abstract art.
I’m a yoga teacher and i train very skilled athletes. Videos like this further confirm that working to become skillful in a variety of different mobilities can allow you to become familiar and stronger through other forms of movement. I appreciate studies like this. ❤
Contemporary dance have techniques too, like graham, gaga, cunningham etc. I would like to see center exercices. The video is great to see the diference between how the body is used to move in diferents cases. 😙
Can't help but be reminded, and am realizing with this video a lot, the in-between the two styles with my ballet cross-training in rhythmic gymnastics when I was younger~ Would be cool to see Maria speak or do collaborations about the athleticism of ballet with other sports that incorporate artistic expression like rhythmic gymnastics, or other gymnastics disciplines (artistic, acrobatic, aerobic, aesthetic, trampolining, etc), figure skating and ice dancing, synchronized swimming, or even with competitive ballroom??
Maria started rhythmic gymnastics as a child before switching to ballet. Sometimes she refers to it: for example, she has kept this kind of stretching from RG, where you hold your foot with the opposite hand and extend your leg ;)
Absolutely love it. Thought it would be pretty boring video, however both girls are really trying to perform for each other, not to show off in front of each other! Was really interesting to watch, thank you.
Dear Maria Khoreva, my admiration and devotion to your journey has brought me there! Im so happy of this collabo, it was so spontaneous and open. I never did ballet but Im deeply devoted into my contemporary and modern pratice into the ballet tideness and corrections, and for this I love your contents. Thank you from Italy, def waiting for the next one❤
Great idea to compare different dance styles, thank you for this one!! Every style has its own beauty and tells different stories, its really so interesting to see how it works by changing the movements and positions. More of that, please!!😍😍
Конечно еще!!! Очень круто) Оксана может показать движения в партере, на полу 😊, это будет интересно) балерина опускается на пол исключительно в момент, когда персонаж умирает🫣, больше никогда)))
Прекрасно! Машенька, так люблю Ваши видео, Вы такая добрая, никогда не заставите человека чувствовать себя неловко в Ваших видео. На других каналах люди обычно делают супер сложные комбинации, и всячески стараются показать, что они лучше)
My brain is gonna explode if I don' t find out if Xana has taken ballet classes in her past.🤯Maybe when she started dancing, before choosing comtempo? If she didn' t, my brain will explode anyways because she is IN CRE DI BLE.😍🙌🏻. I adore her épaulement. You can tell that she is, no matter the style, such a brilliant talented dancer. Since the moment you both did the first feet position, she hasn' t stopped self-repositioning her pelvis again and again every few seconds✨. Beyond impressed. Thank you, Mashula. So happy to see you dancing back🙏🏻. Keep this leg nice and warm😘 С Богом🧛🏻♀️🖤
Please continue this series. Thank you for share this dear Maria 😊🩷. I can't go to bed with my daily dose Maria Khoreva. Thank you so much. Greetings from Germany
i think most contemporary dancers HAVE TO take classical ballet training at some point in their life. because contemporary is based off of ballet. ballet works within the positions, contemporary pushes the body beyond the positions and 'breaks the rules' so to speak.
Yes, if you train at aco contemporary Conservatoire you will get regular/daily ballet classes. However, the will be done keeping in mind that they are training contemporary dancers and not ballet so things will be adapted to some degree and certain rules like gender roles wong be enforced
Excelente clase de barra! Primero elemental. Gracias Chicas! Salen preciosas y muy divertido! Ja! Ja! Muy simpáticas! Me hacen recordar las clases de danzas de niña en el Estudio de Silvia Pujadas. Gracias por todo. Saludos afectuosos desde Buenos Aires.
Honestly: thew cutest shaming I ever saw. It is not about the persons but the background study, preparation, work differences. Briefly: there is always a way from the classical to contemporary but no chance from the contemporary to classical. But this is same in every arts and points to the importance of the “classical” hard work. As an “old school” photographer I would say: thank you Maria, a great lesson for every artists! ❤
dégagé for you is pas de cheval for me! even ballet in different countries can be so different in our terminology and technique methods. xana is adorable! the juxtaposition of ballet vs contemporary is very interesting.
I am not a dancer, I just do video workouts from ballet dancers. I did everything after the girls on the video (at least, I tried=). It did not take long, but I have got tired so much like after a long workout. Especially Xana's parts turned out to be much more difficult and unsual for my body. That would be so wonderful, girls, if you make a new video with exercises like this!
💖👑👑💖🎬🎥📽You both are so Talanted Beautiful girls .l enjoyed watching the different moves so much fun.Thank you for showing us all the moves💖😊💖 Well Done Both of You 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼xxxx
it's so funny to watch these two incredible dancers copy each other because the pronounced difference in style makes the ballet dancer look too stiff/controlled while copying the contemporary steps and the contemporary dancer looks like she's trying very hard to maintain a more disciplined/intentional movement while copying the ballet steps. Contemporary seems to have a lot more body rolls, it's more sensual and grounded and ballet is highly disciplined and controlled. It's interesting but also just pretty cool that they both seem to catch on to the other's movements so fast.
Wow I love how Xena is really living and expressing in her body. Which Maria does too, but it's so different. I guess Xena does it a lot more earthy and sensual.
It seems that contemporary dance is an extension of modern dance. I studied both ballet and modern from the 1970’s-‘90s but never learned the style she’s doing, tho’ I can see some influences from Limon. Also, Maria, you call some dance steps by different names from what I learned in the US: what you call “degage” I call “pas de cheval“ (to me “degage” is a tendu extended low off the floor), for example.
Interesting! My understanding (as a ballet student and a native French speaker) is that "dégagé" is a relatively 'generic' term referring to the extension of a leg + foot: By default, "dégagé" is thus a synonym for "battement jeté" (which itself is short for "battement tendu jeté"), which is exactly what you're describing (hence, by the way, the logic "battement tendu" -- or "tendu" for short -- extending to "battement tendu jeté"). My ballet teacher being Russian / Vaganova, she would always say "battement jeté" and never "dégagé" (I discovered the term "dégagé" listening to French and Italian teachers). Now, when Maria executes a "pas de cheval" at 6:54, maybe it breaks down into "pas de cheval = cou-de-pied (which Maria simply skips describing) followed by a dégagé" (which is the leg extension anyway, even if in this case you don't lift your toes off the floor, since you're not coming from the tendu brushing...). Does that make sense?
@@mariannec.3939 I don't know if I feel really able to make a sense of it, but is it like "arretez", when both the outturning leg and the standing leg (holding leg) muscle are shifted, whether to hence it up from floor or to get the inside turn which appears in tendu rather from the upper leg, in pas des cheval rather from the lower leg under knee? I'm sorry I might be a bit confused to ask this, but I love to ask!
@@mariannestoffers5067 I'm sorry, I don't know "arrêtez" as a ballet step or jump or position... and I can't find it in any ballet glossary! In (plain) French, "arrêtez" means "stop" (at the imperative).
@@mariannec.3939 Thank you so much, Marianne, for your soon given out answer, it's good you are there to improve on my French a little bit and I hope to get more from you of these explanation! There's always terms when we're difficult about and it's always good to hear something new, and share it together. Pps how do you end on a degagé - second position - forward position - fourth position - or fifth position. And what on Earth is the "Retiréez"?
@@mariannestoffers5067 you're most welcome! I would recommend Wikipedia's "Glossary of ballet" (even though I don't agree with their translation of "dégagé" by "disengaged" -- "disengaged" would be "désengagé" -- "dégagé" means "open / cleared out / uncluttered"). If you mean dégagé as a synonym of (as the Cecchetti version of) battement tendu jeté, then you end it in the position you started it (first, third, or fifth). If you mean 'generic' dégagé, then it 'ends' open (to the front, à la seconde, or to the back), in the sense that, precisely, it is the initiating (opening) part of jumps such as assemblé or glissade.
And once more its proven that if you can do ballet, you can do any form of dance with a little bit of study. NOTHING MAKES YOU STRONGER than ballet. The restraints are part of the art form ; movements are only limited by style not ability. No other dance form is more reliant on your proprioception. The girl, I’m sure is good, but her body line just looks sloppy. You gotta do ballet, people😏it just teaches you too much and how to SEE!
Does anyone have the Instagram of the contemporary dancer? I couldn't find it just by the first name. How beautiful, I wanted to see more videos of her dancing
