Adult Ballet - 4 Years of Progress! (2019-2022)
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2022
- It's a pretty long video because I was trying to be thorough about tracking progress on footwork, turns, jumps, so if you make it all the way thru without getting bored, thank you!
I do yearly progress videos for my own sanity. Otherwise, I feel like I'm not improving and will look ugly forever. I mean, I still look ugly, but not as ugly as Year 1, so it's something. Maybe by Year 10 I won't want to barf into a bag when watching videos of myself, but who knows.
I've taken class with the kids almost every day for the past 4 years. I also do figure skating almost every day and I keep yearly video progress of that too for the same reasons. - Розваги
This took my breath away. I start ballet for the first time next week and I'm close to 50. It's been a life long dream I didn't get to do as a child. This just made me SO excited!
Beautiful. Sending you lots of love and best wishes on your journey.
My aunt is 55 years old, and she started doing ballet a year ago, so it’s never too late! she’s the happiest dancing her dream dance
Would love to see your progress
Please keep us updated Queen!
congratulations, im so happy for you! Go for it x
As a ballet teacher, I can definitely tell you've been putting a lot of work and effort and the improvements are quite noticeable. Excellent work! However, you're not ready for pointe, and you weren't ready when you started. As exciting as pointe is, adults bone structure has been completely formed without the training that kids and teens have, so with even more reason you have to gain much more strength and flexibility, and not only in your feet, but in your core. When you're going on to pointe, you can see your shoes breaking down very low and that's because you're not lifting your heels to roll fully onto point. The shoes choice can also play a part, but I don't see yourself lifting with your core. And that's ok. You'll get there, but this can really do more harm than good. Practise with strength bands and increase your ankle range, toes movement autonomy and independence, and your core strenghth. You'll be ready for pointe if you keep going, but right now you're not ready and it's damaging your body. I'm not sure why teachers let you be on pointe, it's serious business.
what part of this is breaking low? imgur.com/F10x6ae
Did you just skim the video and look for the worst possible moments? The only shoes that were absolutely terrible fit for me was the 2021 clips and I basically threw those shoes out a week later because they were not good at all.
This video is tracking the current status of everything, the good and the bad. It's not here to be a polished, sanitized record of only the stuff I do well.
I think my feet look ridiculously good on barre for class when we're just doing relevees and echappes etc. I look better than most of the kids. When we get off barre, I struggle to push those ankles as far, but the only way its going to get better is to keep trying. And it is getting better. Those ankles are further this year than they were last year when I was off barre. Many things I couldn't do last year I can suddenly do this year simply because I'm stronger.
I wish I could take a secret video of class that would display all of the kids' feet and how BAD many of these kids look, no turnout etc. But maybe people online would brush it off as "well those are kids. They only weigh 50lbs so it doesn't matter if their technique is way worse than yours."
But even if they look really bad at the beginning, within 2-3 years, the ones that don't give up start to look really good. I don't know if there's two different methodologies of schools: (1)"you don't go on pointe until everything is pristine" vs (2) "You're going to look like crap at first, but things will change within a few years". Or if it's just a desire to be harder on adults because they weigh more than the 50lb kids.
People online are like: "You're going to get injured or damaged yourself etc etc." And I'm like: "STILL not injured. Still not in any kind of pain and doing great." The only ones with injuries are the kids and that's always from stupid things like miscalculated jete jumps, not pointe work.
I'm leaving your comment up because I do value your input and I do appreciate peoples' various thoughts. Just wish I could secretly film the rest of the class (and maybe other neighboring schools) be like: "Are you sure the internet isn't full of very sanitized versions of ballet?" For example, when my school makes social media promo videos, they only ask the most talented and cleanest lines dancers to be in it. They don't display every kid to the world. It's a very, very polished and sanitized version of what class actually looks like. In a large city and a competitive school that you have to FIGHT to get into, I could see them being very selective and harsh and having a full class of extreme quality dancers. But for schools in smaller areas that accept any kid, they're only going to display their best online and hide the rest.
@@GoddessArwen17 Regardless of how poorly the other kids look, the previous commenter was pointing out your progress specifically. It wasn't meant to be a comparison. In almost all of the clips, including the latest 2022 clips with the new shoes, you're knuckling pretty badly. You're not completely over your box. Of course not every pointe video is going to look pristine, but I wouldn't let my students off the barre if their feet were still struggling with getting over their box and/or knuckling. Absolutely you should be doing exercises at the barre, but I'm surprised your teacher let you into centre.
@@GoddessArwen17 she is just trying to help you, sorry but I agree with her and the other person, you need more work and you shouldn't be on point...continue working.
Sometimes ppl just need to keep negativity to themselves. There was no need to come on a woman’s video and act like you know it all. This woman is not a child, she doesn’t need that teachers “advise” and knows what’s best for her. If she wasn’t ready for pointe her own teacher would have said something or she would have noticed something herself.
@@blackfire9125 I disagree with you. A lot of adult ballet dancers are still beginners, and beginners should still follow the advice of those who have literally spent their entire lives perfecting this craft. Dancing en pointe without proper technique is *dangerous*. It's akin to letting someone, idk, use the uneven bars without knowing how to properly dismount. No teacher would do that. Actually, if you read some of this woman's reddit posts, you'll learn that her teacher actually did NOT want her en pointe. Instead, this woman went online, bought her own pointe shoes, and learned pointe on her own (at least initially, it seems like she might be in a studio now). That means all her pointe basics are on shaky foundation, and it shows. Look, with ballet it is really obvious when someone is not ready to proceed to the next level, and multiple posters have commented both on her UA-cam and reddit posts saying otherwise. It's up to her to listen or not. Regardless, it's not safe. I'm not trying to spread negativity - I think she has improved greatly, and some of her technique on flat shoes looks great (those pirouettes from fifth are wonderful!) But she's not ready for pointe in centre.
You went en pointe way too early. During your turns, your knees were bent. Injuries could occur. I’m not being rude. I’m just telling it like it is. I do appreciate your dedication to this art form, though.
Show me a ballerina that's never been injured (even with professional training) 🙃 I'm not being rude, just saying that even dancer that trained since childhood with the best teachers have permanent injuries and over use problems.
@@madeline569 nah dude, if you don't want to get injured, then you avoid the habits that give you injuries. i also went on pointe too early, and it was until i got a proper teacher that i went left pointe and started gaining strength, flexibility, technique, etc. her dancing was beautiful, but i think she should focus on basic ballet training before going on pointe wrong.
She just wants to gate keep ballet..the dancer doesn’t need stranger’s advice. She’s just putting out her content..
@@amywilkinsshe did start pointe wayyy to early tho
This is so inspirational to see! Thank you so much for sharing!
God bless you for tracking and sharing your progress, and congratulations on all the hard work paying off. You are stunning.
Some tips from a ballerina in training, make sure you're holding the arms from the back and keeping proper hand positioning. Also working on stregthing, flexibility and turn out should be a big priority for you. However you should not be en pointe your shoes are breaking too low and you do not have enough strength to strongly be en pointe. Please work more on your basics so you do not hurt yourself (7:34 shows your shoe breaking too low)
3:19. 3:36, not breaking too low, but these were the paper mache shoes I crushed in hours. I can't afford to buy a new pair of shoes after every class as a beginner. Even our most advanced dancers usually make their shoes last a week or two of classes.
4:30, 5:00 the shitty gaynor shoes I threw out the next day. They were pulling me back like crazy no matter how hard I tried to fight it, and there is no modifying where Gaynor breaks.
7:13, 10:54 the shoes I've been in for awhile. Still working on getting my ankles forward far enough at all times. I have really flexible feet that try to "help" out my ankles in getting over the box. So if I start thinking too much about arms and other stuff, the technique of the ankles starts to creep back.
I'm thinking I'm going to have to try to film stuff over a longer period of time. Because when I do these yearly videos, I'm rushing, trying to get everything finished in 2 hours or less. It makes me tired and rushed. The more tired I get and the more rushed I get, the more the technique of the ankles starts to creep away.
10:54 looks good to me. But then 11:15, I've allowed the ankle technique to slide away again. From what I remember, I was trying to focus on the timing of the pas de bouree, plus being really tired at that point after almost 2 hours of rushed pointework trying to film everything in one day.
If I had someone filming me, plus a teacher standing right there yelling at me "Ankles!" "Arms!" "Spot!" every time I forget something, plus filming over several days so I'm not exhausted and rushed. Doing my own filming in 2 hours by myself is hard. I don't even have enough time to review the video to see if there obvious stuff I forgot to do. And even if I did have time, doing multiple run-thrus is exhausting, which goes back to the idea of filming over a longer period of time instead of trying to get everything "perfect" in just 2 hours.
I’m 65 and about to start my journey ❤❤ you are gracefully elegance
I can see you have made progress, and I applaud your commitment. I'd like to suggest finding instruction on spotting, posture, and center of gravity to polish your movements. Congrats on 4 years!
Spotting was the first thing that came to my mind and learning to land softly
I am 25 and I just started ballet. The progress I am making is slow, because the teacher that I have takes her time so that we and our bodies can develop as dancers. Watching this motivates me to keep going and to trust the process. There is a recital coming up, and we don’t really have dance moves yet, we are still working on technique and we don’t even go across the floor yet. And that’s okay with me. I did say It didn’t matter how long it took as long as it is done correctly. However there are people who want to watch me preform… and I don’t think I will have much to show them. I want the support and people to believe in me.. It doesn’t help that I work, and don’t have time or space at home to practice.. so the studio is literally the only place once a week. But even still because my teacher is so repetitive with her teaching… it makes able to master what I am given.. so I am even grateful I am finally dancing and doing what I love. I can’t wait to see it come to fruition. And same with your journey it is inspiring to watch you progress over the years. Some of the things I was like no way that you can do already! Impressive. I don’t know how fast or slow my journey will be… but it is nice to see dancers at beginner level. I don’t know when I’ll go on pointe… but I don’t want to rush. I like watching my legs get stronger and toned! I just want to say, for you to keep going! You will find your way. And your legs got so much toned and stronger omg!! People will criticize, but it is good to listen and apply what you can. My teacher told me to slide the leg up, instead of lift it, keep your toes on your leg pointed and turned out. Ohh and most of all find your natural turn out and don’t push it too far back from your center and hips. I hope you find that useful 😊
Well done! It takes courage and follow through to achieve this.
I don't know why, but I'm with everybody else. This brought a tear to my eye. Great work!!!
Adult former ballerina here researching adult ballet videos because I miss it and this just has me sobbing. It’s so beautiful. You are SO BEAUTIFUL. THANK YOU!!!
This is incredible. I had tears in my eyes. I don't even know you yet I'm so proud of your progress! This has been a huge inspiration to me thank you so much for sharing this
Edit: I just read the description, YOU ARE NOT UGLY, you're stunning hard working women that takes time to work towards the things you enjoy and an inspiration to many people. Never call yourself ugly pls ❤️
Thank you for the encouraging words and I hope this video does give you confidence in your own life journey! I get some pretty harsh words from others online because they either have high standards or are just cruel, I don't know which. Not all of us are going to look like New York City ballet professionals. All I can do is what I'm personally capable of and keep working hard each year to improve.
You have inspired me and lifted me up. I just had my first ballet class last night. I left so depressed. You have given me strength to persevere.
So gorgeous!!😊
I can see that you've been trying a lot!!
i'm a beginner myself so I don't know much but your turns around the 8 minute mark were beautiful !! looked so smooth omg
Congrats I’m 30 I decided 3 years ago I wanted to learn various dance forms I tried pole dance twice, chair dance once, and belly dance a few times which I love ❤️. I am now learning beginner adult ballet and want to start here because that’s where most dancers begin, I always had a love for the creative arts (acting, theater, filmmaking, writing, dance, music) thanks for sharing your journey with us 🤗
This is fantastic! I am 28 and I will strat ballet next week, I have no previous experience so I am nervous, but gave me a lot of motivation, you're inspiring :)
You have really worked hard. I’m impressed. You have really strong angles for Pointe! And your petite allegro is pretty!
I so admire you for what you’ve accomplished!
I hope you post again for 2023! Its so nice to see what progress looks like for those who started as adults. Ive been dancing for 1.5 years now and am really looking forward to pointe. My school says I need to dance in center en pointe before im allowed to join the shows. Hope youre doing well
Youve showed a great amount of progress and that Incredible But I would say you just go on point shoes a little too early I don’t go to the same school or ballet places you go to but at the place I go to do ballet I’ve been doing it for five years and I’m still not on point because we focus more on technique and flexibility before you can go on points because the strength you need in your feet and your legs to hold you up but you really good and your a natural at it Just keep up all the hard work 😁 also sorry if i came out like rude i dont i mean too in anyway
This was lovely!
Hello! It is so wonderful to see your progress. I understand the difficulties of dancing on point during the zoom times. I have been there myself. One thing I would say is, make sure to pointe your feet when you are doing pirouettes. I am very sure your teacher has told you this, but just because you are wearing pointe shoes, does not mean you dont need to pointe. I understand that when you only have 4-5 years of training this may be more challenging, but i will say it gets easier. Good luck and keep up the amazing work!
this is beautiful congratulations
try doing all this on flat first ! then once you’ve perfected it or atleast have it really strong and any other ballet combination on barre or center once u get all that down on flat then u have to relearn everything en pointe which is alot more challenging!
great job. you are inspiring me!
oh my god you look so beautiful and strong!! thank you for sharing
Loved this.
I think you are great! I'm impressed and inspired, just plz be safe with the pointe work as it's very easy to incur injury.
You are amazing ❤️
You are a great inspiration! Look at your calves muscles! Amazing. I envy you. Please post more videos
Absolutely amazing ! I am so encouraged at 53 on an Adult Ballet Journey! So happy for you friend ! 💕🩰
Beautiful. Inspiring.
Great improvement. I'm surprised they let you go on pointe though, let alone so early.
Wow it's so cool how you filmed yourself! I want to see my progress too since I'm just starting out but I'm scared to see how bad I look haha. If it's okay to ask, can you give advice on how to have time to do ballet and ice skating everyday? Do you have a very flexible job?
I skate in the mornings 5:45am to 7:45am and go straight to work from there. Then I go straight to ballet after work. My ballet classes are 4:15pm or later. I eat at my desk while working so I don't have to take a "lunch break" at work.
I only film about once a year, because yeah, I think if you film yourself too frequently, you'll get discouraged because you won't see significant progress.
@@GoddessArwen17 thank you I really admire your dedication and consistency
This is wonderful stuff and you've got great legs. How many classes do you take per week?
Your 5th is really pretty!
Keep up the good work
May I ask how are your feet doing since you've been doing point? I'm worried about the toll it would ultimately take on my feet if I were to start.
Things that determine how pointe work will affect your feet over time:
1. Technique and being strong enough - the stronger you are, and the better your technique, the safer it is to be on pointe. Taking ballet classes increases your strength and your technique, plus a teacher to assess your technique and strength level.
2. Proper fitting shoes. This is a combination of your teacher's advice, a good pointe shoe fitter, and your own experience over time. Most dancers have to try several pairs of shoes before they find the "right" one. So the first year on pointe is definitely the most challenging as you try to find the right shoes and improve your technique.
3. BODY WEIGHT. Yes, heavier girls can go on pointe, but the heavier you are, the more dangerous it gets. Really I'm not an "optimal" weight, I'm just at "OK" weight. That goes for anything athletic you do in life, the lighter you are and the stronger you are, the easier and safer it is.... unless it's something like sumo wrestling or american football I guess lol, since weight and bulk are an advantage in those sports.
In conclusion, with proper technique, teacher and good shoes, you'll be fine. The scary videos you see of professional dancers with torn up feet, They dance a crazy number of hours per day, year after year. They get torn up because they don't get enough time to rest and recover since they're getting paid to dance a ridiculous number of hours per day. (8+ and usually more). The benefit of doing ballet as a hobby means you can rest and recover when you need to. You don't have to break yourself since it's not your career.
What is the thing that you are dancing on, the black circle?
This is so cool. Look at you beat your jeté and you brisé! You don’t just dance on your own though ?
She probably does! This is just a complication of basic moves so she can compare the progress
@@madeline569 haha I know what the video consists of thank you and they say only men mansplain hahah I was masking her a question but thank you ha
i just began ballet and your video is what i needed ! but i am not sure... you go on pointe, right ? how many hours per week do you train ?
Pro is 8 hours a day. I recommend at least 3 hours a day 15 hours a week for starting
Stretch on off days but give time for muscle to not tear
beginners tend to do 1-2 classes a week. adult ballet classes/studios tend to be flexible to accommodate for people's busy schedules. as you feel more comfortable, have more time or are willing to dedicate more time, you can add more classes to your schedule as you see fit.
Depends on your age. If you're looking at age 3-7, they typically only do a few hours per week. Age 8-12 are often doing 10-14-ish hours per week if their goal is to go professional one day. Age 13+ with professional goals are usually doing a lot of hours: like 4+ hours a day. Since I'm an adult and not going professional, I do roughly 8-10 hours per week, which is 1.5hr class most days of the week. I also do 7-10 hours per week in figure skating. So I actually am doing 4 hours of exercise per day, but 50% of that is ballet and 50% is skating.
Wow the comments section. I thought you progressed nicely but I have no idea about pointe work. I was just watching ballet progress videos because my 10 year old is in her 4th year of ballet. She still has another year to go before they consider if she's allowed to go on pointe.
But I liked your progress.
Thank you! Yeah some people only want to see flaws and nothing good. As for your kid, her age will also play a role. They usually want kids to wait until around age 11 or so, just to make sure their footbones are developed enough for it to be safe, since growing bones are rather soft in really young kids.
In pirouettes you need to turn out your knee, point your foot and spot please
Considering she did this on her own, this was brilliant. Just think If she had proper training. She has the heart , and passion for dance. Who’s to say she might be a late bloomer. Stranger things have happened!
Well done! But i would suggest to do more tendues and plies! And work more on turn out! Arms are also quite weak...elbows hanging...
Good luck! Best wishes! ❤❤❤
Wow! You twirl like a princess.
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girl you cant be turning your leg in like that when you pirouette
Be careful with bending your knees