The Mistake Waltz: Dancer's Perspective (Mistakes We've ALL Made 😅😅)
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
- As very highly requested, TODAY we’re taking you through and analyzing the Mistake Waltz from Jerome Robbins' The Concert (The Perils of Everybody) featuring the Paris Opera Ballet. We'll be dissecting the genius (hilarious) choreography and all the little nuances behind this iconic ballet piece, offering our insights and interpretations and why we find it so relatable and funny 🤣🤣
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Grace to you,
J&E
0:00 Heyyyy
0:51 CoNtExT
2:44 Hilarious Entrance
6:06 The Mistake Waltz
12:41 Dramatic Exit
15:48 Concluding Thoughts
16:56 Bye~
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Also one of the characters forgot to take off her glasses before going onstage😄
It’s a small detail but it adds so much to her character 🤣🤣
It might be because it makes her stand out, but she is definitely my favorite.
I've seen versions where almost all of them had some wardrobe mistake going on. 'Forgot' to remove legwarmers, wrong hair accessory or put it in wrong, slightly off colour clothes from the others etc.
The Mistake Waltz is an absolute scream. It takes real skill to make deliberate "mistakes" look like real mistakes - the late comedienne Victoria Wood doing bad cruise ship singing is another great example - and these Paris Opera dancers NAIL IT! I laugh until I hurt at the slow moving of the arms into the correct position at the very end! Hilarious.
Glad u had a good laugh! Pieces like this are so wholesome and refreshing 😆😆
This ballet always remind me of a lesson from my musical theater music director. "if you're gonna make a mistake, make a big loud mistake."
Like sneezing in a tuba loud? 😆
It's so fun to see professionals just get to engage in absolute chaos on stage
The Mistake Waltz is my kind of dance.
We love it 😂😂
In the ballet that we are currently rehearsing for there are several times where I'm the front line girl. During one rehearsal I totally messed up and had the wrong hands but I fully committed to it. What made it even funnier is that I tried to slowly switch arms even though I was in the very front and the teacher clearly sees me but we all had a good laugh about it after the run through.
This dance and your commentary on it is hilarious. 😂
Probably the worst mistake i made as a dancer is the time I got dizzy during a performance and started facing downstage when everyone else was facing upstage. I still wake up in a cold sweat remembering that.
OMGGG 😂😂 we’ve def done that too… fun memories 😅😅. Thanks for watching, laughing, and sharing! ✨🫰🏻🫰🏻
I will never EVER forget the first time I saw this. Absolutely damn near died watching it. I'm a pianist, but I've done my fair share of musicals, on stage and back stage, and in the pit. It's hard enough to do it all correct, but when doing it correct is making mistakes... that actually almost takes MORE skill because you're so trained to NOT make those mistakes. From pure raw chaos, which is what a lot of those big ensemble dance numbers can look like to the audience as dancers are passing through and between each other rapidly etc... to the wrong positions and the simultaneous glares. It's just unbelievably hilarious in such a serious, self-aware way that shouldn't work, but does.
Have you seen “Ballet Magnifique - Ballet gone bad”?
It’s a contemporary version of classical ballet which starts off with something tiny wrong and it goes from there. It’s escalated by a jealous ballerina who thinks she should be centerstage instead of the girl who actually is centerstage. It is absolutely brilliant!
It requires multiple viewings because there are a lot of details and there are considerably more dancers on stage at the same time than in this “mistake waltz.“
Thank you very much for explaining all the things that were wrong and how difficult it is to do it wrong on purpose. I wonder how often they had to practice folding themselves up or being in whatever awkward positions that the men were carrying them on and off the stage in!
I had never heard of this ballet before and I’m so glad you made a video about it!
Maybe someday you could do a video about this “Ballet Magnifique” - it’s from Texas!! Maybe you could even interview the choreographer or the dancers!
The video is on UA-cam but I can’t attach a link for some reason.
Have a wonderful week! 🙏😄🧡🌺
Love Ballet Magnifique. Watch it any time I need to laugh to the point of tears.
@@MrsWheezer hooray! Here is a very quick and instant laugh-till-I-cry video from football. Knowledge of or interest in the sport is definitely not required. Understanding the language is also not required lol. Search “crazy commentator at bergkamp goal 1998”! Enjoy!! 🤣🤣🤣
That passion when wrong... I had a choir teacher once who said, if you don't know the right notes, sing louder.
The Mistake Waltz brings back flashbacks to my previous end of term concerts. Last year when my dance school did a simplified production of Sleeping Beauty, and one girl fell over while en pointe in a fairy circle. I also had a "when do we get up?" moment when we were supposed to run off after the curtain came down, but I half stood up too soon (thankfully it was blackout and you couldn't see it on the recording).
Jerome Robbins was not only a genius choreographer, but he was able to create slapstick-spoof ballet. He was a comedian. In 2024 "The Concert" is STILL call 911 hilarious, and "The Mistake Waltz" in particular is still insane🤣🤣🤣)))! FYI, NYCB's and Covent Garden's men run faster than POB's men, if you can imagine that! I wish this ballet was revived more in the repertory, because today it's rarely staged. Thank you ladies for finally commenting on this piece!
The entire The Concert is just so great throughout. The opening, the Mistake Waltz, the funny hats, and the umbrella groupings. I highly recommend watching the entire thing, especially when the entire thing isn't really that long.
Do you have a link to it? I tried googling it, but only got clips
@@personperson6827 ua-cam.com/video/_pSnd0S94o0/v-deo.htmlsi=uJMw_HarbHBpt7lf
In the marching arts, you're taught that if you make a mistake, make it like YOU'RE the one who's right...eve if you move early and freeze (story time coming), going back to your original set us distracting.
In 1987 I was performing with an all-age drum & bugle corps. During rehearsal on a show day, we added a 4 count drum fill between "Moonlight Seranade" (our opening statement) and "Take the A Train." On the first note of "A Train" we'd step off....fur the 4 count fill, we stood still.
All rehearsal, I nailed the change.
Then came the competitive run....we finish the last chord of "Seranade" and on the drum fill I pivoted into my first "A Train" drill instead of waiting those 4 counts.
As soon as my weight started to shift and I was committed to the pivot, I knew I was early....so on count 1 of the fill, I planted my left foot and froze in that step-off position for the remainder...continuing the drill when i was SUPPISED to.
I'm sure I stuck out...but had I returned to the pre-pivot position, it would've been worse.
Mistake Waltz is so hard! Jerome Robbins was a mastermind in creating inventive choreography. As a dancer you want to be in line and this choreography requires mistakes and owning it with a character. So much fun as an audience but very hard as a dancer.
Making a mistake is one of those things that when you need to do it on purpose it is incredibly hard. It's like the Catch 22 of performances.
YAY! "The Concert" by Jerome Robbins is one of my favorite ballet! This is so exciting! ❤
It’s gonna be fun! Can’t wait to see y’all at the premiere! ✨✨✨
LOVE LOVE LOVE TheConcert!!!
Gah! I fell asleep before the premiere! 😅
I love love this piece because it totally broadened my spectrum of ballet and that ballet CAN BE HILARIOUS when it's done right! It was groundbreaking for me because all the ballets I watched before this were all very serious performances 🫥
Before I encountered "Mistake Waltz," my spectrum of ballet was only limited to Swan Lake, Nutcracker, and Petrushka (traumatized my childhood! 😢 Love the music but VERY scared of the ballet) and Petrushka was the reason why I stopped broadening my ballet spectrum. 😂
But "The Concert" totally made a breakthrough and now I know several ballet works! And thanks to you girls, I can understand the story/techniques of many ballets better in order to appreciate all the hard work that goes into each performance. 🥰
Anyway, "The Concert" is very endearing for me because of CHOPIN'S (I ❤Chopin) music and I love how pianist is part of the performance 😂😂😂! I also LOVE Paris Opera Ballet version the most so I was so happy when you brought this version for your review! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for reviewing and I wouldn't mind if you girls covered the whole performance~ 😉😂😂😂 @@balletreign
We’ve all made mistakes during a performance, but when the mistake is part of acting, it is much more difficult to pull off! Great fun!
Your comment about the running reminded me of my favorite moment in my recent stage career. I was in the ensemble of a production of Much Ado About Nothing (possibly Shakespeare's funniest play imo) and i was on stage "setting up for the masquerade". The bit that got the audience to laugh every night was me running off stage as fast as i could in my little heels in four layers of edwardian skirts, arms wheeling
I love Chopin…possibly my favorite composer, though it’s hard to chose. I’ve never seen this before…how hysterically funny! Takes a lot of skill to do that!
Paring Chopin’s refined music with absolutely unhinged choreo was the best decision 😂😂
I love the Mistake Waltz so much! We learned it at school and it’s the funniest choreo I’ve ever done. I was so inspired that later I taught it to my students as well and they loved it too. We need more comedic ballets like The Concert! 🙌💚
Awww that must have been so much fun handing down that experience to your students! Def need more wholesome comedy ballets 👏🏻👏🏻
“Ballet Magnifique - Ballet Gone Bad” is on UA-cam for your viewing pleasure. I think it should have more exposure although it does have 1 million views in four years. ❤
I loved trying to spot the intersection of the French style dancers doing this American ballet!
They did SUCH a good job with this!! 🤣🤣
LOVE the mistake waltz! Great choice for topic.
I’m so curious if this has ever been performed in Russia. For some reason the image of the Mariinsky or Bolshoi soloists performing this makes me giggle. It’s like the ultra elite having fun and clowning around.
I think the closest that the Russians have come to Robbins' "The Concert" is the Bolshoi's "The Bright Stream." Uliana Lopatkina loved to dance Spuck's "Grand Pas De Deux," and the Mariinsky audience loved it. In the Soviet era, the powers that were wouldn't have allowed ballets like these to be staged which didn't promote their ideology or propaganda. However, there were some exceptions. For example, at the 1st Moscow International Ballet Competition back in 1969, the young Mikhail Baryshnikov won the Gold medal with a spoof ballet created especially for him by Leonid Jacobson called "Vestris." Another example is "The Match," by Tom Schiling which was choreographed for Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev. It was a spoof ballet of a tennis match.
You guys should totally do an appreciation on the moment in Act 2 of Coppelia where she's messing with Dr. Coppelius for this series. Its sooo funny, and in a ballet that isn't meant to be a spoof in the way this or Alice is.
That part is sooo funnyyyy 😂😂 would def love to do more on Coppélia! 😆😆
😂😂😂...I have seen this ballet before (on UA-cam, not live) ans adore it...but you two made me almost cry laughing...your commentary made it all even better! It is such a massive task to pretend to be bad at something you're good at!
Love the in-depth captioning! Means a lot to me.
My favorite part is the intro and ending lmaooo 😂😂😂 Just the way everyone's chaotically running around is soo hilarious.
Fantastic, we want more of this. Ballet doesn't need to be very serious.
The one who doesn't mess up those arm movements but missed a whole separate section - she was just so FOCUSED on not messing up the arm pattern XD
i used to be a hip hop dancer (ik not the same) but i was the WORST for this one section; i could always hit it in practice but any time we preformed i messed it up. i was supposed to do a spin and like ‘combat’ esc scene with a scene partner in the top left of the stage, and would ALWAYS spin the wrong way and do my combat in the bottom left. so me and the other girl both looked wrong because i could never get it right. i hope she’s doing better now, im no longer taking the program but she was always so lovely
Bravo! Thanks for the Saturday funnies!
Thanks for joining us this Saturday!! Glad we could make u smile 😆😆
Love you!!! Would love a video about your dance backstory - where you trained, what you're doing professionally now, what your goals are, etc.
whoever did the captions for this video is amazing and i thank you
I love it when y'all say "y'all" !
I think this is one of my most enjoyed videos. It's been 50 years since I participated in ballet but I still remember the feelings. Brava
PART TWO PLEASE
We did end on kind of a cliffhanger lol 😂😂
@@balletreignTotally! I want more! ❤
Thank you for sharing this hilarious ballet😅
This is why I love Les ballets Trockadero, they have this kind of comedy and when I saw them live I was crying from laughter
The Mistake Waltz is so much fun 😄 I'd love to see your take on the Ballets Trockadero! I saw them live once and was in TEARS. One dancer "fell" off the stage at one point and let out a scream so loud and unexpected (and very deeply MALE) some people in the front row shrieked 🤣
Can’t wait to see this! I love watching your videos!❤
Eeeek can’t waittt 😆😆 so happy ur enjoying our channel!! 🫰🏻🫰🏻
Momentum momentum... the way to pick up anything with flair
If u didn’t do it with flair did u even do it at all? 😆😆
@@balletreign thank you for the flair orthographic correction...
Also... as a certified (i have proof) coocoo person you have to keep people guessing which crazy they will encounter... flair or understated
I am not a dancer, never have been. But I did rythmic gymnastics at school for a while, it was a mandatory thing for the girls. We had a performance that we did so many times that at one point... There was a small group of us towards the front to the left from the perspective of the audience. We were in perfect sync. But we had gotten a few steps ahead of ourselves.
Our parents knew we were wrong because it was like the 3rd or 4th time they'd shown up to see us do the same thing all over again lol.
I know my parents teased me for it, but had to admit that even if we were wrong, they wouldn't know if it'd been the first time they saw it. I made the mistake of following the lead of the people in front of me but when we spun around and saw what the people behind us were doing, we corrected ourselves and the rest of it went off with no further mistakes. Still a fun memory, though. 😆
I think another contributing factor on why it's so funny seeing dancers sprinting is their posture and stride.
This is my favorite ballet piece! I didn't know of the opening and ending! Made it even better!!
Imagine looking back on your video after yeet is not cool to say anymore and realising how yeet it was to include it in the video
Oh boy, I remember a few mistakes, like the one dance where we had to start at a certain cue and then go in order, except the first person missed the cue and didn't start. Or the time my costume failed and I kind of slid off stage to rip off the pants that were falling down and slide back onto stage in just the tunic, just in time to catch my partner for the duet... 😅
Haven’t been happier. Thank you !
Aww 😆😆🫰🏻🫰🏻
Brava~ you two continue to capture my respect & admiration! Keep up the GREAT work. Thank YOU two- too!! [pun intended ]🤣🩰💖
thank you so muchhh 🤣🤣
Hay ballets divertimentos, y luego están estás piezas simplemente divertidas 😌🌹
Wonderful ☺️funny 😊
Thank you so much for sharing with us ❤️❤️
You made my day 🌹🌹
Aww thank u!! So happy u enjoyed this ✨🫰🏻🫰🏻
you are the two-set violin of the balley world! 🤩
So beautiful! Not a easy thing to do!
The ‘wrong place’ thing is something that is traumatizing.
“That’s not your spot!”
“Tell Indi that! He thinks he’s supposed to be by Pepper! Soccer kicks him.”
Indi, Pepper and Soccer were horses. At the end-of-camp performance, my horse (Indi) was certain we were walking beside Pepper. We were supposed to be walking beside the horse with the foulest temper in camp. Indi finally bit her… in the middle of the performance ring! Naturally, Soccer kicked Indi. So he bit her again. Myself and the other rider were thrown while the directors came in and pulled the horses apart.
No one forgot that day!
The captioning is so great!!!
Hello again! This video was priceless 😂 it gave me the other idea of y’all doing another “ballet protagonist series” situation : stereotypes of ballet class! I would be so happy to see y’all do that!
Mistake Ballet is to dance what Coarse Acting is to theater. Love it.
I had a horrible thing that would happen to me when i did ballet. I would be one of the only students that woukd know the entire dance, so could practice from home. Then one day mid practice it was like my brain just snapped, and all memory of the dance was gone. I had to completly relearn the dance. Sometimes it happened mid performance as well. I no longer dance.
Thanks for the commentary! Makes it a lot more understanding
Reminds me of my favorite play "opining night"
Dark fact: The opening seems like murders running with the dead body, cleaning up the crime scene, staging the body as art..😅
This video was HILARIOUS 😂😂😂
It gave me the idea of ya’ll doing multiple tutorial videos of different ballet variations! I love all of the variations and I feel that you two would produce very helpful tutorials 😊
A loooonger bit of tape got stuck under my foot while doing our thing.... with a bigger audience than I was used to T.T I had to keep going and we laughted sooo long about that when we were done xD I did like classical dance where we tried stuff like cancan and other fun things xD. This was the cancan number so you can imagine xDDD
Would you please do an analysis of Ashton's Symphonic Variations? How it could be interpreted along with some pointers for approaching other abstract works.
I laughed so hard I can’t breathe and am in pain
I’m laughing so much to this. A great way to spend a good Sunday. I will have to check out this ballet I love comedic stuff.
This is really genuinely my favorite ballet piece of all time. It's so funny. God bles.
Your commentary!! How many times do we all do all of these?
Hello...just subscribed.
You are both well-spoken.
Can't wait to follow more from y'all.
Aww thank u so much!! Welcome to the Ballet Nerds, we’re so happy to have u join us 🥳🥳
I love the “Spoof” pieces in performing arts. As well as this ballet, theater also has “The Play that Goes wrong” (which is partially interactive with the audience. 15/10 could not recommend more) and “Peter goes wrong” which is havent seen but is a similar concept. It takes so much skill ironically to get everything wrong on purpose. The artistry behind these professionals mistakes is amazing. “The Show Must Go On!”
I so needed this today! Thank you for making me, not only smile, but full on laugh (and thank you to the original dancers too!)
Please would you consider showcasing great performers who these days don't necessarily get the recognition they deserve? Beryl Grey had stopped dancing by the time I knew her, but what she achieved, and how technically proficient she was, appears to me to be interesting in relation to modern performance? I love modern performance but if one looks at what 'Madam' expected as opposed to what is acceptable at the moment there are significant differences.
Thanks for ur request!! 👍🏻👍🏻
Great video! Thank you! 🤍
Thank you sm for watching! 🫰🏻🫰🏻😆😆
Thanks for the Spanish subtitles
I’m literally crying 😂😂😂
Thank you.😂
Thanks for coming! 😆😆
Do you ever show us videos of you two dancing? I'd love to see that and I'm sure others would as well.
Not to offend anybody but you remind me of Botez sisters of the Ballet. Beautiful and funny girls talking about specific form of art.
Love all your vids 💕💕💕
Thank u sm! Glad u enjoy ✨✨
Who said that ballet is slow and boring???? I LOVE comedy in ballet!!!!
I wanna see what happens if half the class is intentionally taught a thing differently and how they would deal with it. I know in practice you may just stop (as a dancer myself, though not ballet) so some pressure to keep going would be good. Not an audience, that would be mortifying, but maybe something like 'we wanna make a video to show prospective kids and we wanna try and get it in a few takes' so the instinct is to 'make it work'
You need to talk about the whole ballet!
Bravo! Loved this. Thank you!
Thank you SOOOO much for this video!!!!!!!!! it's an absolute lovely piece and must be so awesome to perform!
This was so much fun! Thanks, girls!
Im like the one in the 🤓 glasses
Soooo niceeee and fun😅🩰🤍
So glad u enjoyed this one! Thanks for watching 😆😆✨✨
Thanks for another good video girls. P,ease check out the Darcey Bussell and Dawn French duet from tv series the vicar of Dibley. So funny
Yes!
Thanks for the suggestion!! 👍🏻👍🏻
The slow arm change is one I've done!
Great Show! Jerome Robbins is crossover man. He danced for / collaborated with Balanchine and Michael Fokine (of Ballet Russe fame) and created several Ballets in the regularly performed repertoire. But he was also responsible for many well-known Broadway musicals like "West Side Story", "Gypsy", and "Fiddler on the Roof". Super-interesting "American Masters" biography here: ua-cam.com/video/m37y2AoTo4E/v-deo.html
Thank you for watching and sharing! He was def a very talented man and did a lot of amazing works! ✨✨
I got stuck in a fold in the exit curtin once and was missing for most of the dance.
This was so fun 😂😅
Chopin is my favorite composer.
Honestly, I was laughing so hard! I just don't know if it was from the dancers or your commentary 🤣🤣🤣
Hahahaha I love The Mistake Waltz hahahaha I did all of those mistakes 😭😂 (I still do some, like being off for synchronization in group dances, or the occasional wrong hand movements 🤡)
It’s really difficult to make them on purpose and look good while doing them, which is why I love this Waltz so much. ❤
I really like your video. 🥹💖
It takes incredible talent to do goofball stuff well.
❤️❤️❤️
Such smart girls!!!
Haha thank u! Glad u came to play ✨🫰🏻
Can't dance, never been interested in ballet, but this is hilarious 😂
ooh, I think i like this PNO version better than the PNB one that Josephine looked at
hey, please! what's the mazurka (? i think?) playing under your introduction? (and this was another brilliant effort , ladies ❤)