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BALLERINAS GO HERE!!!!! Spotlight on ballerinas - no jazz, lyrical, tap, anything - talk about your BALLET experiences here! Please do not post anything unless you are SERIOUSLY wanting to become a ballet dancer.
submitted by Vee R., age 11, England
(April 7, 2013 - 9:20 pm)
(April 7, 2013 - 9:20 pm)
Some of my favorite steps are: grande jetes, tourjetes, saut de basques, brises, pirouettes, pique turns, fouette jumps and turns, pas de chats, and I can't think of any more right now. Oh, and I also like the fish dive in partnering. I guess that it's not really a dive unless it's the no-handed way, but I don't know what else to call it.
If you didn't notice, I like big jumps a lot. I like pirouettes best on flat, but I'm getting better at them on pointe. I can sometiimes manage a double now, and I'm working on my fouettes. My pointe teacher wants me to do fouettes on pointe in the spring recital, so I really need to start working on them. I'm both nervous and excited.
What are everyones favorite ballet movies? I like:
Movies: Ballet Shoes with Emma Watson.
Documenteries: First Position and Ballerina.
And ballets: The Paris Opera Ballet's Sleeping Beauty, with Manuel Legris and Aurelie Dupont.
I absolutely love watching Aurelie Dupont and Manuel Legris. Who are your favorite dancers?
(May 4, 2013 - 12:59 pm)
TOURJETES! That was the name I couldn't remember.
(May 4, 2013 - 3:15 pm)
Surprisingly, I have never seen any ballet movies or documentaries, but I'll have to look into Ballet Shoes.
I have many favorite ballets, like the Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Cinderella, Coppelia, and Giselle.
One of my favorite dancers is Maria Tallchief. Unfortunetly, she died this year on April 11.
I saw Ballet Shoes and loved it!
Admin
(May 4, 2013 - 3:22 pm)
Yeah, my I have a lot of favorite ballets, I just really like that version of Sleeping Beauty.
My favorite ballets are Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Cinderella. I haven't actually seen all of Don Quixote, but I loved what I have seen. I love the Kitri variation from act 1. I learned it at a summer intensive two years ago. It probably wasn't the same exact steps, but it was a very similar and easier version. I like the danceing part of Giselle, but the story is so sad.
(May 4, 2013 - 5:57 pm)
I like foettes, piroettes, grand jetes, attitude, and a bunch of awesome moves that I don't remeber the name of.
(April 10, 2014 - 9:06 pm)
I'm so glad that there are more ballet dancers on the CB now. I was the only one for a long time.
(May 4, 2013 - 1:02 pm)
TOP!
(May 10, 2013 - 12:37 am)
TOP!
Today is my Spring show. I'm soooo excited! I have seven different dances, so the entire show is quick changes for me. I have a Ballet/Pointe piece, and Jazz piece (which we just fininshed on Thursday), a Tap piece, a Contemorary piece, I'm Miss Clavel in Madeline (for the little kids), and the story ballet that we're doing is The Snow Queen. My parts in that are Villager/Friend of the main character, and a Reindeer. Most of fthe shows I have one dance to change costumes in between each of mine.
Do you have a dresser to help with the quick changes? Wish we could all see the show. It sounds great!
Admin
(June 8, 2013 - 9:49 am)
There are people that can help me back in the dressing room, and the ones where I have to change backstage there's usually either a helper or a friend. Usually when a lot of my friends have to quick change too we all help each other with hair pieces and buttons and stuff.
Good. Have fun!
Admin
(June 8, 2013 - 10:58 am)
I wish I could see it! Your show sounds great!
I also had my recital this past weekend. I was in a pointe piece, ballet dance and a modern-type finale.
At my old studio, we would put on a story ballet, but at my new studio we don't. The studio I go to has ballet, pointe, modern, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop and tap. People of all ages can dance (4-adult) at the studio. So, my teachers have trouble organizing a story dance. Instead, each class performs a dance to one song in our recitals. At the end, the whole studio dances to a song for our finale.
One of the teachers told my ballet group that next year she was considering trying a story dance. Her plan was to audition us at the beginning of the dance year and then create the story with all kinds of dancers. It sounds interesting, and I do miss doing a story ballet.
(June 10, 2013 - 11:06 am)
So, yesterday was last class of the regular ballet year. I will be doing summer ballet starting in July, though. My teacher showed us some excercises with the Theraband that we have to do every day.
Most of the girls in my ballet class aren't going to do the summer ballet session,which is too bad. our teacher told us, basically, that taking the summer ballet classes becomes increasingly important each year, and if we don't take the classes, the possibility increases that we will fail.
Something I found out: At my ballet school, I'm in level 4. But in ballet schools in Europe, I would be in level 2 now. This is not because I am more advanced but because in the other ballet schools, they don't start until they are 10 or 11 and then they practice 5 days a week. At the ballet school I go to, we only take classes 2 days a week, 3 in level 5. So I have been dancing for 4 years but am at the same level as someone who has been dancing for 2 years.
(June 8, 2013 - 11:54 am)
@Admin: Thank you, I will!
@Daffodil: I had my last ballet class of the school year on Thursday. I am in level 5 at my studio, and it goes up to 6. It certainly doesn't follow the same levels as European ballet schools. I am dancing this summer as well. I'm not going to be home, so I'm not doing summer classes, but I'm doing two summer intensives, each is two weeks. Also, what are some of the Theraband excercises that you have to do? I would be interested to know.
Ok, I have to finish getting ready to go!
(June 8, 2013 - 12:20 pm)
My studio doesn't have customary levels. Instead of numbers, we have the letters and words: beginner, W, X, Y, Z and advanced. Our teacher determines where we are based on age and ability, but mostly age. When I transfered to this studio, I was placed in X because of previous experience and age. Now, for ballet I am in Z and in pointe I'm in Advanced.
I was wondering, does anyone have boys dance ballet in their studios? We don't have many, the only boys in ballet are two beginners. Overall, though, we have five boys.
(June 10, 2013 - 11:16 am)
I'm done with my third day of Ballet Intensive. Ugh, I'm so sore! In the morning we have an hour and a half of Ballet technique, and then an hour or and hour and a half of Modern or Contemporary, then lunch, then Pointe, and then Pas de Deux (partnering). Today we learned part of a Pas de Deux for Don Quixote and practiced Tourjetes into the Fish. The tourjetes into a fish were a little intimidating at first, because they catch you mid-air. We got it eventually.
(June 13, 2013 - 7:51 pm)
How was the rest of your Summer Intensive? It sounds like a lot of work, but it still seems fun.
(August 13, 2013 - 12:50 pm)