Something I find interesting that not many talk about is the silence of their movements. When a ballerina jumps in to the air there will definitely be some noise from the hard bottom in their shoes, but when they generally move around there is almost no sound. That silence is, what I believe, to be a big reason why it feels like they're flying around on stage. It is truly fascinating and definitely deserves more credit.
They do things to the shoes to prevent them from being really loud when dancing. Ballerinas are definitely light on their feet and that is beautiful. But it mostly has to do with they make sure they’re shoes are quiet
Rachel Deckert not really, as a ballet dancer, usually pointe shoes just make every movement 10 times louder, so you have to put in more effort not to make noise
When we rehearse if someone makes a particularly loud noise my dance teacher will make us all do it again to ensure we are all silent sometimes I swear she does it for the fun of it
as a gymnast I’m just so respectful about her work, random people can’t understand how hard as hell it is although it just looks like dancing in а pretty tutu
If you love ballet you should go for it! I used to think that I couldn’t do it but it helped me get rid of my spinal disorder. Now I even go international. You got this.
D N I'm supper flexibility its insane... Always have streach out for yrs no matter what size.. Anyway .. I don't understand how a doctor can tell you that your muscles are over worked?? I'm trying to figure this out because she didn't explain anything when asking her what she means ? As she's a doctor yet as no answers to my questions.. as well asking for certain thing's she wasn't. listening to my questions ? When I'm telling her I'm in pain Trust me I'm in pain you can't make it up ! One Doctor Understood it One .
I started ballet at 10. I was so embarrassed and I used to tell people I started at 3 (like everyone else). Obviously I wasn't caught up to EVERYBODY but I learned really really quickly and now my whole life is ballet. I am 13 now and let me tell you... I have gotten SO MUCH better! Don't let anything stop you from your goals or dreams no matter statistics, age, or difficulty ♡
I started at 12 after 4 years of rhythmic gymnastics, the flexibility was there but I didn't have the ballet technique which was the biggest problem for me I honestly wish you the best
That's kind of the point of dancing technique: You have to make it look like everyone can do it. And as a competitve ballroom dancer myself, even I regularly fall into the trap of thinking I can do what the pros can do (even though I should be the first to know that that's not the case). And I think this is also kind of the achilles heel of dancing: When you make it look easy (you have to do that), people think it's easy, therefore they don't have the respect a dancer should get. It's a vicious cycle. But it's also inevitable. That's what makes dancing so ironic to me. This is my serious answer to your lighthearted joke hahah.
It makes me sad that I never get to experience this. Started dancing ballet as a child but lost my ability to stand in a car crash. Maybe my daughter will one day start ballet, but I will not force her to it.
Good that you will not force her. :-) I feel your pain. I used to dance too ballett with A lot of passion. Had a serious injurie on my ankle and had to move in my own flat when I was 16 and couldn't effort it anymore. Was the first time my heart broked. I loved ballett. I will be an old granny and will say: I could have been a professional dancer 😅🤣🤣🤣 (I'm not an native English speaking person)
i imagine your pain idk hox mxh you've danced before it but stoping brutally like that muste have been really difficult added to the clasic hard things or a car accident. But idk in wich contry you are, but there could be like oragnisations that offer ballet class with disabled people and they can be mixed with valid ones. So if you want to do ballet again you can check if there's any in your area
You may like horseback ridding better. When you are one with the animal, its like dancing. Also do the arms positions without the legs steps in ballet. The hands, head upper torso. Strive to be the best, and do the best you can. Don't be sad. You didn't die in the car crash.
Lol I know! I wanted to get a size up in tights... But they didn't have them..... 😭😭 So I have to stick with my own size Which rips easily! I take my waistband and stretch it out and leave it stretching all night. It should give you a good 2-3 classes before it shrinks again!
One thing that's great about this is that you see the cumulative effects, the practice as well as it not being all ballet-centric. I've started to take stretching more seriously and know it will take time to get to my own goals. Great video.
Melissa Smith It actually is, we work just as hard if not harder then football players, we can and will get injured due to our exercises and or dances, we’re on the same level as them, not everyone can be a professional athlete and not everyone can be a professional dancer I’d say we’re in the same lane.
@@melissasmith6762 Sport- "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment", and Ballet doesn't fall into this category how ?
@@halfdeadminah5857Someone literally quoted that to me an hour ago. Ballet is not about competition. They use competitions to measure ability in order to further their career (winning scholarships, getting noticed, ect.). The ballet career is about getting into a company in order to dance for _entertainment_ , not competing. In sports, it's all about winning competitions and nothing else.
That’s what a black belt told me, and her dad owns their studio! I have 2 friends who are sisters, one does ballet and the other taekwondo and the one that did martial arts was able to learn dance easily and did very well! They’re so similar
I so agree. I had a classmate for various years during school and she did ballet and taekwondo and was amazing. You’d see her standing below 5’5” but try getting into a fight with her and see how your shins end up Trust me I asked her once to teach me
Ballerinas are very strong. But holy hell, I thought she was skinny fat on her anterior chain. Thought she would have a little more muscle in her arms, back, and core until she explained her reasons why.
Brealaja Barber Being super slim is optimal for a ballerina as it helps dancers be more graceful and lightweight, which is helpful when it comes to things such as leaps, lifts, and turns
As a Ballerina myself (not professional tho), I was doing that same exercise on the leg press a few days ago. But the trainers are mostly so used to people who dont dance ballet and are on the gym mostly to gain muscles or lose weight that he just couldn’t understand what I was doing and kept trying to “correct” me by keeping my feet apart and stopping me from jumping
She is tiny and muscular and flexible because of her nutrition. So shut your mouth and have more of respect for her and for your body. Jealousy is gross
Amazing and so good to watch. This is also a good example of rational self-interest. Meaning that people ought to drop the word selfish as an insult. Selfish can be bad and good, but it requires context. But selfishness in of itself is not negative, it's just being used wrongly that way. Rational self-interest is essential to be the wonderful artist that Kathryn is.
I've tried plain gym and other forms of exercise but always return ballet and similar exercises are the best. They make the body feel so good, so powerful and free, when you have such flexibility, strength, balance, tamina, grace, agility, speed etc. One does not have to be a star or some great balletic beauty or even have the ideal body type to enjoy the benefits. Just do it. Even if you cannot do much, it will still benefit you if you do what you can and try to push the barrier a little further each time. But, it is crucial to do the exercises correctly, to avoid injuries and harm to your body. You need right technique. Not just trying to perform impressive physical feats. And, obviously, just swanni g around looking pretty in a tutu but not straining or exhausting yourself or getting all hot and sweaty will not deliver any fitness benefits. You really do have to work hard, which might include getting down onto a dirty hard floor to perform floor based exercises, which may be hard eg splits etc but are generally pretty safer and healthy.
BALLET IS A SPORT! I got into ballet when I was 6 years old and did it until I was 12. I was part of a strict ballet school that was owned by a woman with a prestigious last name in this industry. I was taught by a russian teacher who himself was and still is a remarkable ballet dancer. The amount of work, drive, mental effort and strength it takes to survive in this environment is almost unbelievable. Not everyone is born to do this. I thought I was until my legs started to mess up on me. We didn't have enough money for me to also be getting proper therapy on the side, therefore I had to put prima ballerina dream aside. It hurt so much inside knowing I had to leave that life behind me. Fortunately I had another skill that helped me get into sport in high school. And because of my ballet experience it helped ME have an amazing drive in swimming. Ballet is most definitely a sport and it will keep shooting up in the ranks. These dancers will keep working tirelessly to prove to thw world what they are made of! PURE GRIT AND GRACEFULNESS!!!
I'm an athlete and I can't do most of what you seem to do everyday. To be so gifted and use it to make this world more beautiful with the arts is something you should be very very proud of. All the best to you.
She talks about having the ballet physique and how to obtain it, She also talks about how they don't want to bulk up. My question is, why must the ballet physique be slender? Some individuals can not obtain such a thing due to their physical build. Talent isn't always determined by body type.
Brandi leann-to add to that: the optimal ballet physique is to parallel the graceful movements. Long and lean body types lend well for ear-grazing leg extension and leaps. A bulky, short dancer traditionally speaking (not my own standard) doesn’t lend as well to the fluid, graceful movements. Something just seems lost in translation. The girls that are taller and naturally slender are more desirable in a professional capacity because someone sitting in the back row of a theater can still see them and their long limbs versus a petite dancer-hence the reason the girls chosen to be leads are at least 5’8 and up. Also, in professional ballet, performances are done en pointe (when dancers are literally on the tips of their toes wearing shoes with actual wood at the infrastructure where the toe box is) therefore the more you weigh, the more difficult being en pointe will be and your ankles most likely will buckle from the strain. It’s really about gravity and physics too! What goes up must come down and the heavier something is...well I don’t think I need to explain lol!
This idea of integration with fitness techniques sounds great. Wonder if more ballerinas and dancing schools use them. It seems smart to strengthen and take care of the whole body
same, people are always like "oh your a ballet dancer what do you do spin in tutus?" and im like no im constantly in pain my feet are dead and i cant even get out of bed half of the time in the morning, especiually with pointe shoes.
Indeed. I’m not at all a professional, but I do ballet and this one time my brothers friend asked “what sport do you do?” I said, “ballet” they said “ballet isn’t a sport.” Next time I see them I’m going to tell them to stand of the tip of their toes and walk around and do a combination. 😂
super inspiring. Ms Boren has an amazingly strong and flexible body. Normal people should use her drive and motivation as the point of watching her. GO KATIE!
stop pointing out her weight, just because shes skinny doesn't mean she has an eating disorder, shaming her for being skinny is the reason people get anxious about their bodies, she didn't ask for it to be pointed out and continuing to id disrespectful and unnessecary
Please please do a workout series or video with basics to advanced. I’d love to do this but I’m anything but a dancer. Some of these moves looked like they’d feel so good to accomplish.
I think ABT dancers are much more accessible then say Marinsky or Royal Danish Ballet dancers but I prefer the classic dance companies to the more modern American companies but this girl is very beautiful I'm going to look her up so I can see how she dances.
ABT incorporates some Russian technique into their training, although it is a bit of a mix. they're not straight up Vaganova, but it's much more classic than, say, NYCB which is all Balanchine
Yes I respect NYCB because of its contribution to the art but I would watch an ABT show over a NYCB show in a heartbeat.(unless it any of the jewel series that would interest me) I like ABT for their creative direction. Honestly I love all ballet and any dancer that makes it to the level of dancing with the major companies is a sight to behold. Many of the modern interpretations of classic ballets are breathtaking.
I loved ballet with my whole heart but as soon as I got approached to dance professionally I knew I could never do it full time, these women are amazing and under appreciated (not to mention underpaid but don’t get me started on that 🙄)
Everyone who isn't a dancer really doesn't know how hard it really is to be a ballerina, contemporary dancer or even a modern/lyrical dancer. It is constant work and exercise, also eating healthier and trying to keep up. It's tough but sooooo worth it. I've been dancing since I was 4.
Just because someone posts a food post on IG doesn’t mean they actually eat the food. Yes, IG does show ballerinas acting “goofy” and normal. But like she said it’s a serious day job. I’m sure behind the scenes there’s serious competition going on and plenty of ballerinas (lead/soloists and corps alike) have very restrictive diets that they don’t show the outside world because it would be seen as being politically incorrect/bad role model.
Honestly yeah. If you start small but keep working at it and add a bit more everyday you can do anything. Good luck, start now. Also use the internet to help, literally look up "how to get flexible" and your on your way.
@@joyousval Without the right genes you can't 'do anything'. Furthermore, do not get advice from people online who were born more flexible. That's like a piece of gum teaching a wooden plank.
Melissa Smith uh yeah, no. When it comes to some things yes your genes dictate it but for something such as flexibility it's the stretching of your body over time that results in if you are flexible. also, the things you find online aren't advice exactly it's stretching exercises to follow. Your analogy was kinda pointless. A better analogy would be something such as a six pack. If you don't have any core but do crunches every day eventually you will inevitably get that pack. It's the same for stretching. If you simply can't do the splits but every day you push a lil' further, it is unavoidable that after some hard work you will be flat.
@@joyousval So true, a like that there are people like you who support and motivate other people . Now I am going to start stretching to become more flexible
I quit ballet because the girls were just so snooty and clicky and just too competitive. Wish I had been strong enough to overcome their intimidation. I was doing so well and enjoying it😔
@@thatgrumpychick4928 Eventually, you will have to dance with other dancers in performances which is where some of the competitiveness and intimidation stems from. Not always in practice
I had a similiar issue when I was younger but I plan on getting back into ballet soon because I miss dancing. Check out different places to get a vibe of them but you'll find your spot. You can do it!
This is really cool but, "I only use lightweight to not bulk up the upper body" and "I'm a personal trainer" don't really fit hand in hand. Using 3 lb dumbells once you're already strong isn't going to build muscle unless you use them for extremely long and impossible amounts of time.
Ballerinas do very unnatural positions with their bodies. Heavy weight could be dangerous if something goes wrong, especially since from what I saw, her workout is a mix of strength training under unstable surfaces to promote the body's ability to correct itself back into balance.
...**silently walks away** I mean most get it depends on who it is and how much they are dancing but even then your body gets used to it so most should get it. I am a ballerina myself but definitely not a professional yet
Maybe they develop longer cycles? If you stop getting it altogether, I'd consult a doctor. There is medication that will induce menstruation if it's really necessary. It could also be a nutrition issue if you're not changing your diet to conforn to a more active lifestyle. Again, a good doctor would have the best answers here.
LA Fresh Life I started again 3 years ago but I missed the vital years of my life (9-16 I feel like I should have used those years to get that flexibility and stuff)
You can still gain its benefits even if you don't achieve certain heights. This lady will be an in demand personal trainer for high performance athletes and sports professionals. Extreme stability and strength is the holy grail of a lot of training. Good luck and have a great 2019.
