what I really love about this video format is that in addition to teaching dancers about technique, it teaches dancers how they should talk to themselves. There's such a perfect balance between credit where credit is due, and critique where critique is due. I feel like a lot of us fall into very negative self talk, but this kind of self coaching is really balanced and healthy
@Calla T *thank you* for so eloquently saying what I came to the comments to say! It was so striking to hear Kathryn say briefly, "this was really good" or "I like how I did X." Not only did she praise herself objectively, but she also didn't preface her words of praise with self-erasing, self-impeaching disclaimers: *"Not to be big-headed but I think that was done pretty well"; *"I'm not saying I'm the greatest ever, but I think that move was really good"; *"I don't mean to toot my own horn..."; *"Sorry to sound self-regarding/full of myself/like an egomaniac..."; *"I'm not saying I'm better than anyone else or anything..." You all know what I mean! It's a habit, but much more than that: over time, it undermines what people think of you. It makes you look weak, especially in comparison to men, who are often quite comfortable saying, with confidence, what they are good at (I don't even mean the egomaniacal braggarts we've all met, but just nice, confident guys who are good at what they do). I know a lot of young dancers watch Kathryn and it's so great that she offers a model for how to assert yourself and how not to undermine your own self-assertion.
Kathryn I’ve always loved you. And you always post things like this right when I need them. I’m in a dark place haven’t been dancing a lot but this is something that I can use to slowly coax myself back.
Brian you’re so not alone. I’m right there with you. - with love, from another Katie ballet dancer 🩰💕 I’m praying over what you’re personally going through because I too miss my normal training more than words. I pray our scenarios improve so that we can get back to what we love. I wish you only the best! 🙏✨ your videos are absolutely beautiful btw: gorgeous concept & astounding lines! 👏 Much love, Katie Lana
I agree with the arms height also due to the fact that Giselle is a romantic ballet and the positions of the arms in Giselle are special and peculiar and should express that romantic idea of softness but also supernatural. I was studying Benesh notation for Ballet and I remember we had a particular drawing for the "Giselle arms position" that are slightly different than the regular arms in Ballet, but are also to be found in "La Sylphide" for instance. I think it is one of the hardest Ballett exactly because of the style not necessarily only because of the technical challenge. You are doing a great job at looking at yourself objectively without being harsh on yourself.
I'm so excited about this series! I've been teaching dance recreationally for years, but this year I get to start teaching advanced competition dancers so technical critique is the EXACT mindset I'm shifting towards. It's always great to learn from masters like yourself :)
I will say, I just watched Natalia Osipova dancing this and her arms also got high. I think it’s probably ok because it’s supposed to be dramatic. It’s also a romantic era ballet, and the arms were more dramatic in romantic era than strictly classical.
I only caught the last five minutes or so but even from that I could tell that this is a very useful video idea. For experienced dancers it's good to see and hear how to pay attention to details and how to apply minute changes. Younger dancers get to see that even professional dancers make mistakes and are not perfect all the time.
I love studing all the nuanaces and details of ballets. Watching Natalia Osipova, Diana Vishneva, Alessandra Ferri and others teach you all those amazing details and unique interpretations. It must be an amazing feeling learning and performing this ballet - Hope you have a great performance!!
Very educational, thank you, and so kind to explicitly point out all the „not so goods“ to us. Check out the coaching footage of the royal ballet or Paris opera ballet for inspiration! Also your commentary on those performances would be interesting, focusing on what you admire in other dancers‘ approaches. Many thanks for all your great work!
Thank you for another fantastic insight and for constantly educating us all so well! :-) When I started with ballet 15 years ago (as an adult) there was nothing - apart from some fun videos (Anaheim ballet mostly). One couldn't even figure out how to sew the damn point shoes because nobody would explain anything. Thank you for your kind sharing!
This is a really great video. Thank you for sharing and for showing dancers how to view themselves with a critical eye, recognizing not only areas for improvement but also when things look good. This is an invaluable skill for any dancer.
I love this SO MUCH. I’m a teacher too and I think it’s that teacher/coach eye that makes you able to see your own dancing in a new light. When I watch myself I think of myself like a student. It’s a much more analytical way of watching than emotional. (Not that I don’t feel emotional about my students - I adore them. But the corrections come from a different place - disassociated like you said). Can’t wait to watch more of these!
An amazing video, as usual 😊 One easy thing regarding the arms not getting too high, especially in those romantic arabesque poses... I've watched many rehearsals with the girls in our theatre and the one correction that keeps getting repeated is to try to feel your shoulderblades and to try to rotate them down and slightly back... Not only does it help prevent the arms getting too fluffy, but because you transfer the strength to the back and shoulderblades, the arms become much lighter... Awesome video otherwise. You truly are an inspiration
Engaging the shoulderblades as a way of getting the arm height/style correct is excellent advice. It's true for 18th c. ballet right up through the mid-19th c. (i.e., Giselle) in part because of the way the bodices were cut in the period, tight across the upper arm and with the arms set farther back than we would expect today. So even though the costumes for Giselle were very light from the beginning, any dancer of the period would have been trained in comportment that kept the arms relatively low, a comportment reinforced by daily clothing.
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@@CarinRuff I mean, even today, if you watch rehearsals for la sylphide or giselle in Russia , you'll often hear the word "lopatichka" which means shoulder blade...
I would Love to see you dance this. I have been training with Madison Ballet and learned I was trained Balanchine as a kid. That's another reason why your videos made me feel at home starting ballet again. Lots of Love and Hugs.😊💝
Hi can you please breakdown irregular pointe work like the Queen of Hearts in Alice and how your technique/how you use your shoe changes? Also I would LOVE to see you perform Alice here on yt and professionally- you deserve it and would be WONDERFUL❣️ looking fwd to this new video! xxx
this is sooooo insightful! i love this type of coaching analysis, i hope you do more of these! i have a hip hop teacher who always pushes us to record our run throughs at the end so we can do the same exercise, and it's extremely helpful. i love getting to see you do the same and we can all learn so much from it!
Only in ballet are we super critical on every detail and are very happy to receive such detailed criticism :-) All joking aside, you're such a beautiful and strong hard working dancer! I don't have the courage to film myself, I can feel already i'm turned in without seeing it.. and get super depressed watching my aging, overweight body with so much to work on..
I'd like to request an updated video on facial expressions! Giselle has such wonderful expression. I've made the transition from cheesy smile to neutral/"demure", but I feel like I have RBF in photos. XD especially in solos/variations where you don't have anyone to act off of.
Love the analysis! I am mostly an interested audience member so these really help me feel like I can be educated and get a sense of what I'm looking at!
I cannot thank you enough for this video! Very helpful and informative (also funny when you explain the last solo scene:)) Please bring more this type of video and good luck for your performance
i actually trained in russian technique, UK soon is going to hold audition for giselle, this video is going to help me cause i do this little piece which is hard, and i need advice to perfect my arm placement they go so high, you should do more those kinds videos it really help for youbg girls like us
LOL. The arms thing is so relatable & it's honestly probably harder to master proper hands & arms than entrechat six. I got an earful from my ballet teacher a couple of days ago about my arms & hands. He finally said to imagine it's 300 years ago & someone sees me in the woods & they'll go, "Who is she? Is she a princess?", then they'll look at my arms & hands & say, "Oh, she's a laborer." 🤣
Dear Kathryn, I love your videos. Back when I could barely do a good half of a pirouette, I was in despair. I was always the worst in class and even tore my hips once. But you helped me get in shape. Now I can do consistent doubles. Thank you SO MUCH! Also could you do a longer pre-pointe class with/without intros? I could do it every day now that my summer intensive is over. Thanks!
Lovely video! There are always going to be slight adjustments. It is the whole performance that is important, the emotion without over emoting which can be ugly. Have just watched Fonteyn again in th Act11 pas de deux, so beautiful, just right in every way.
This is interesting! I love learning about all the intricacies of ballet. I don't cheat my turnout either, once I move I will lose the cheated part anyway, because I can't keep it up. Are those shoes the Nikolays? P.S.: Maybe you could do a once upon a point episode about divertimento in Paris?
Giselle is the perfect role for you, with your grace, lightness and musicality. I'd love to see you perform it - I don't know if you can record and upload your performance? There were a couple of freeze frame shots here where your expression reminded me really strongly of Natalia Osipova as Giselle - look up some of the Royal Ballet's clips of their Giselle... (Marianela Nuñez is fantastic in the role too, but I think I prefer Osipova as Giselle and Nuñez as Kitri.)
I think this is a great tool for all dancers - not just ballet dancers. I film myself as a belly dancer, and I do the same thing - watch it later, see what I could improve and where, see what I did well.
Went to a school ran by a Balanchine trained AD for 4 years and I still have trouble with keeping heels down in jumps! I didn't know about the high arms though.
What a useful and fun disection and analysis. Just wondering if the arms aren't had no recourse but to end up in the position, as a result of the torso not being fully squared. Hmm?
Excellent analysis of your performance. Have you considered lifting the leg a bit more after the develope' before you release it? I think it might give you a more weightless appearance during that moment.
A little question about penché - when you do it out on the floor with nothing or no one to hold on to. I don't think I have ever seen anyone do this with the foot on the leg you're standing on really turned out. Most amazing ballet dancers - like yourself - keep the standing foot with the toes in the same direction as your nose, straight forward. As I'm far from a professional dancer, this is how I do it too, to be able to keep my balance, but I've never heard anyone mentioning anything about this little detail. If you judge a ballet competition, would you give someone plus points if she/he is able to do a penché with the standing foot/leg turned out? Or is this just the way to be able to do a penché - aka with your foot NOT turned out - simply because to do this move with that foot turned out is too difficult even for the best of the best?
8:00 what do you mean by using your natural turnout when coming down? Do you usually cheat then? (I'm far from professional and just a bit confused, because I use my natural turnout all the time)
That’s interesting about your comment on how Balanchine dancers tend to go too high with their arms and become too fluffy. I say it’s interesting because I actually have this problem with going too high and big with my arms and legs even though I am training with the Russian method. Honestly I don’t really know where this habit for me came from because 2 of the 3 studios I’ve trained at have been the Russian method for ballet. (The 3rd studio didn’t have any specific method and was more of a combination of different methods. I was there for two years.) Is Balanchine the only method where dancers have this problem or does it happen in other methods too just not as often?
Hi, I love your channel. Thank you very much for the lessons you provide. I started learning ballet from your videos, I'm 19. Can I do ballet with or without regular athletic shoes? I can't get ballet shoes because they are not available in my country. Does ballet keep me away from sports to lose weight? sorry for disturbing you.❤️❤️
I think the term you are trying to find that would describe the quality of the execution of the choreography in Giselle, as Giselle, is lyrical. You are bouncing through the choreography when you should be drifting. Merely say'n.
Hi Katie, my teacher told me to start videoing myself and correcting it, I’m 14, but whenever I do I end up feeling horrible about my dancing ability and get upset. Are there any tips to healthily critiquing yourself?
Hi Little Ballerina! It is never easy to watch yourself on video, speaking from nearly 30 years of doing that myself. I think if it's a real struggle, try watching the first time through and just noting the things you think went well (a nice line here and there, expressiveness, etc.) Try to boost yourself up first and when you take a look again for things to improve upon, know that you are learning, as is every artist in their craft, and give yourself grace to continue learning and growing as a dancer.
The best things about your videos is bring me and others I’m sure to ballet. As a singer during a performance we have a couple of ballerinas perform. Totally didn’t understand and music director explained that every hand movement where a word in the story. It seemed like a secret code that nobody was to understand. That with the girl with bloody feet in a ice bucket for the next show I lost the interest. I now feel I lost 30 years of great art. Thank you for making sure I go see a ballet.
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what I really love about this video format is that in addition to teaching dancers about technique, it teaches dancers how they should talk to themselves. There's such a perfect balance between credit where credit is due, and critique where critique is due. I feel like a lot of us fall into very negative self talk, but this kind of self coaching is really balanced and healthy
@Calla T *thank you* for so eloquently saying what I came to the comments to say! It was so striking to hear Kathryn say briefly, "this was really good" or "I like how I did X." Not only did she praise herself objectively, but she also didn't preface her words of praise with self-erasing, self-impeaching disclaimers:
*"Not to be big-headed but I think that was done pretty well";
*"I'm not saying I'm the greatest ever, but I think that move was really good";
*"I don't mean to toot my own horn...";
*"Sorry to sound self-regarding/full of myself/like an egomaniac...";
*"I'm not saying I'm better than anyone else or anything..."
You all know what I mean! It's a habit, but much more than that: over time, it undermines what people think of you. It makes you look weak, especially in comparison to men, who are often quite comfortable saying, with confidence, what they are good at (I don't even mean the egomaniacal braggarts we've all met, but just nice, confident guys who are good at what they do). I know a lot of young dancers watch Kathryn and it's so great that she offers a model for how to assert yourself and how not to undermine your own self-assertion.
as a non-dancer, i liked this. It was interesting to actually be able to SEE what you were critiquing in your dancing
Kathryn I’ve always loved you. And you always post things like this right when I need them. I’m in a dark place haven’t been dancing a lot but this is something that I can use to slowly coax myself back.
Brian you’re so not alone. I’m right there with you. - with love, from another Katie ballet dancer 🩰💕
I’m praying over what you’re personally going through because I too miss my normal training more than words. I pray our scenarios improve so that we can get back to what we love. I wish you only the best! 🙏✨ your videos are absolutely beautiful btw: gorgeous concept & astounding lines! 👏
Much love,
Katie Lana
And I agree: Katie- this video is super inspirational & jam packed of knowledge. Self-applicable improvements mentioned for sure here. 🙋🏼♀️
Thank you so much! And sending you so much love!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you.
Most enlightening!
This video is a great learning curve!
Painful, but great!
Thank you, Kathryn
Though I do miss “where’d she go” I am living for this series!
I agree with the arms height also due to the fact that Giselle is a romantic ballet and the positions of the arms in Giselle are special and peculiar and should express that romantic idea of softness but also supernatural. I was studying Benesh notation for Ballet and I remember we had a particular drawing for the "Giselle arms position" that are slightly different than the regular arms in Ballet, but are also to be found in "La Sylphide" for instance. I think it is one of the hardest Ballett exactly because of the style not necessarily only because of the technical challenge. You are doing a great job at looking at yourself objectively without being harsh on yourself.
I'm not a dancer and I still found it fascinating to get such a detailed analysis!
Same!
I'm so excited about this series! I've been teaching dance recreationally for years, but this year I get to start teaching advanced competition dancers so technical critique is the EXACT mindset I'm shifting towards. It's always great to learn from masters like yourself :)
Dear Katherine Morgan, you are brilliant ❤️
I love this approach! Acknowledging points you need improvement and also points you do well! I think it s a healthy balanced mindset!
Who else clicks "like" before the video even starts? Always excited and here for new content from the Queen!
I will say, I just watched Natalia Osipova dancing this and her arms also got high. I think it’s probably ok because it’s supposed to be dramatic. It’s also a romantic era ballet, and the arms were more dramatic in romantic era than strictly classical.
I only caught the last five minutes or so but even from that I could tell that this is a very useful video idea.
For experienced dancers it's good to see and hear how to pay attention to details and how to apply minute changes. Younger dancers get to see that even professional dancers make mistakes and are not perfect all the time.
Thank you!
You make me feel better about all those "still have not fixed that problem!" things in my life.
I really respect this format. You were fair and kind to yourself and it looked very much like your coaching for competitions.
Loved this. As Giselle is my favourite classical ballet, I will even pay more attention to all the details.
so fun and educational thank you even tho I'm not a ballerina but a gymnast, it helps me look better in my routines too
That’s such a brilliant video! I loved watching your analysis, very interesting and educational! ❤️
Thank you!
I love studing all the nuanaces and details of ballets. Watching Natalia Osipova, Diana Vishneva, Alessandra Ferri and others teach you all those amazing details and unique interpretations. It must be an amazing feeling learning and performing this ballet - Hope you have a great performance!!
I feel like your videos all across the board are amazing and I enjoy them so much. Please never stop posting!
Very educational, thank you, and so kind to explicitly point out all the „not so goods“ to us. Check out the coaching footage of the royal ballet or Paris opera ballet for inspiration! Also your commentary on those performances would be interesting, focusing on what you admire in other dancers‘ approaches. Many thanks for all your great work!
Happy Birthday, Katie! 🥳🥳
Thank you!
@@kathryn_morgan Your welcome! Hope you have a great day!
Oooooh I'm excited for this series!!! (For a moment I thought it said TED Talk but this is even better! 🤣)
as a teacher, I LOVE this series!!
I definitely need some improvement in being my own coach. This was so fun to watch, thanks for another awesome video!
Thank you for another fantastic insight and for constantly educating us all so well! :-) When I started with ballet 15 years ago (as an adult) there was nothing - apart from some fun videos (Anaheim ballet mostly). One couldn't even figure out how to sew the damn point shoes because nobody would explain anything. Thank you for your kind sharing!
This is fascinating, Katie, thank you! xxxxx
I just learned how to appreciate ballet EVEN MORE and even though I’m not a dancer. BALLET IS HARD!
This is a really great video. Thank you for sharing and for showing dancers how to view themselves with a critical eye, recognizing not only areas for improvement but also when things look good. This is an invaluable skill for any dancer.
I love this SO MUCH. I’m a teacher too and I think it’s that teacher/coach eye that makes you able to see your own dancing in a new light. When I watch myself I think of myself like a student. It’s a much more analytical way of watching than emotional. (Not that I don’t feel emotional about my students - I adore them. But the corrections come from a different place - disassociated like you said). Can’t wait to watch more of these!
Happy Birthday Katie! 🎉 ❤️
Thank you!
An amazing video, as usual 😊
One easy thing regarding the arms not getting too high, especially in those romantic arabesque poses... I've watched many rehearsals with the girls in our theatre and the one correction that keeps getting repeated is to try to feel your shoulderblades and to try to rotate them down and slightly back... Not only does it help prevent the arms getting too fluffy, but because you transfer the strength to the back and shoulderblades, the arms become much lighter...
Awesome video otherwise. You truly are an inspiration
Love this!
Engaging the shoulderblades as a way of getting the arm height/style correct is excellent advice. It's true for 18th c. ballet right up through the mid-19th c. (i.e., Giselle) in part because of the way the bodices were cut in the period, tight across the upper arm and with the arms set farther back than we would expect today. So even though the costumes for Giselle were very light from the beginning, any dancer of the period would have been trained in comportment that kept the arms relatively low, a comportment reinforced by daily clothing.
@@CarinRuff I mean, even today, if you watch rehearsals for la sylphide or giselle in Russia , you'll often hear the word "lopatichka" which means shoulder blade...
I would Love to see you dance this. I have been training with Madison Ballet and learned I was trained Balanchine as a kid. That's another reason why your videos made me feel at home starting ballet again. Lots of Love and Hugs.😊💝
I like this concept a lot!
Hi can you please breakdown irregular pointe work like the Queen of Hearts in Alice and how your technique/how you use your shoe changes? Also I would LOVE to see you perform Alice here on yt and professionally- you deserve it and would be WONDERFUL❣️ looking fwd to this new video! xxx
this is sooooo insightful! i love this type of coaching analysis, i hope you do more of these! i have a hip hop teacher who always pushes us to record our run throughs at the end so we can do the same exercise, and it's extremely helpful. i love getting to see you do the same and we can all learn so much from it!
Only in ballet are we super critical on every detail and are very happy to receive such detailed criticism :-)
All joking aside, you're such a beautiful and strong hard working dancer! I don't have the courage to film myself, I can feel already i'm turned in without seeing it.. and get super depressed watching my aging, overweight body with so much to work on..
I'd like to request an updated video on facial expressions! Giselle has such wonderful expression. I've made the transition from cheesy smile to neutral/"demure", but I feel like I have RBF in photos. XD especially in solos/variations where you don't have anyone to act off of.
Oh Kathryn, i love this video! It help so much see you doing that cause im my own coach, and sometimes can be so hard not quite. Thanks
Love watching the skirt floof about!
This was really fascinating to see all the little things pointed out you might not notice in a live performance!
Love the analysis! I am mostly an interested audience member so these really help me feel like I can be educated and get a sense of what I'm looking at!
I cannot thank you enough for this video! Very helpful and informative (also funny when you explain the last solo scene:)) Please bring more this type of video and good luck for your performance
i actually trained in russian technique, UK soon is going to hold audition for giselle, this video is going to help me cause i do this little piece which is hard, and i need advice to perfect my arm placement they go so high, you should do more those kinds videos it really help for youbg girls like us
LOL. The arms thing is so relatable & it's honestly probably harder to master proper hands & arms than entrechat six. I got an earful from my ballet teacher a couple of days ago about my arms & hands. He finally said to imagine it's 300 years ago & someone sees me in the woods & they'll go, "Who is she? Is she a princess?", then they'll look at my arms & hands & say, "Oh, she's a laborer." 🤣
Love this type of video! Need more, lol.
This was very helpful!
I don’t dance but these types of videos are fascinating :D
This was TREMENDOUSLY educational and valuable, thank you so much! ❤
Dear Kathryn, I love your videos. Back when I could barely do a good half of a pirouette, I was in despair. I was always the worst in class and even tore my hips once. But you helped me get in shape. Now I can do consistent doubles. Thank you SO MUCH! Also could you do a longer pre-pointe class with/without intros? I could do it every day now that my summer intensive is over. Thanks!
LOVE this new series idea!!!
Lovely video! There are always going to be slight adjustments. It is the whole performance that is important, the emotion without over emoting which can be ugly. Have just watched Fonteyn again in th Act11 pas de deux, so beautiful, just right in every way.
This is interesting! I love learning about all the intricacies of ballet. I don't cheat my turnout either, once I move I will lose the cheated part anyway, because I can't keep it up. Are those shoes the Nikolays?
P.S.: Maybe you could do a once upon a point episode about divertimento in Paris?
This was so useful! Maybe analysing the sugarplum variations would be great!
Really loved this video!
Giselle is the perfect role for you, with your grace, lightness and musicality. I'd love to see you perform it - I don't know if you can record and upload your performance?
There were a couple of freeze frame shots here where your expression reminded me really strongly of Natalia Osipova as Giselle - look up some of the Royal Ballet's clips of their Giselle... (Marianela Nuñez is fantastic in the role too, but I think I prefer Osipova as Giselle and Nuñez as Kitri.)
I think this is a great tool for all dancers - not just ballet dancers. I film myself as a belly dancer, and I do the same thing - watch it later, see what I could improve and where, see what I did well.
Went to a school ran by a Balanchine trained AD for 4 years and I still have trouble with keeping heels down in jumps! I didn't know about the high arms though.
What a useful and fun disection and analysis. Just wondering if the arms aren't had no recourse but to end up in the position, as a result of the torso not being fully squared. Hmm?
Love it 😀 😍 ❤ thx ❤❤❤❤🌟🌟🌟
Excellent analysis of your performance. Have you considered lifting the leg a bit more after the develope' before you release it? I think it might give you a more weightless appearance during that moment.
2:16 those LINES 🔥
I loved this!❤️
This is great! 💙
A little question about penché - when you do it out on the floor with nothing or no one to hold on to. I don't think I have ever seen anyone do this with the foot on the leg you're standing on really turned out. Most amazing ballet dancers - like yourself - keep the standing foot with the toes in the same direction as your nose, straight forward. As I'm far from a professional dancer, this is how I do it too, to be able to keep my balance, but I've never heard anyone mentioning anything about this little detail. If you judge a ballet competition, would you give someone plus points if she/he is able to do a penché with the standing foot/leg turned out? Or is this just the way to be able to do a penché - aka with your foot NOT turned out - simply because to do this move with that foot turned out is too difficult even for the best of the best?
8:00 what do you mean by using your natural turnout when coming down? Do you usually cheat then? (I'm far from professional and just a bit confused, because I use my natural turnout all the time)
That’s interesting about your comment on how Balanchine dancers tend to go too high with their arms and become too fluffy. I say it’s interesting because I actually have this problem with going too high and big with my arms and legs even though I am training with the Russian method. Honestly I don’t really know where this habit for me came from because 2 of the 3 studios I’ve trained at have been the Russian method for ballet. (The 3rd studio didn’t have any specific method and was more of a combination of different methods. I was there for two years.) Is Balanchine the only method where dancers have this problem or does it happen in other methods too just not as often?
Hi, I love your channel. Thank you very much for the lessons you provide. I started learning ballet from your videos, I'm 19. Can I do ballet with or without regular athletic shoes? I can't get ballet shoes because they are not available in my country. Does ballet keep me away from sports to lose weight? sorry for disturbing you.❤️❤️
Hi Kathryn! Where can we purchase tickets for the performance? (I tried Google but was unsuccessful in finding the show/venue online.)
Do you have a link for where to buy tickets for this performance? Would love to see you perform!
do you teach how to calm heavy mouth breathing after performance
How can I improve my pirouette
I'd love to attend the performance! Is there a link to buy tickets?
I have noticed that after those many many entrechatcarters classical Giselles really let their upperbody live in arabesques.
12:12 how is this jump called?
I think the term you are trying to find that would describe the quality of the execution of the choreography in Giselle, as Giselle, is lyrical. You are bouncing through the choreography when you should be drifting. Merely say'n.
Hi Katie, my teacher told me to start videoing myself and correcting it, I’m 14, but whenever I do I end up feeling horrible about my dancing ability and get upset. Are there any tips to healthily critiquing yourself?
Katie has a video about this on the channel!
Check out The Confident Dancer, too :)
Hi Little Ballerina! It is never easy to watch yourself on video, speaking from nearly 30 years of doing that myself. I think if it's a real struggle, try watching the first time through and just noting the things you think went well (a nice line here and there, expressiveness, etc.) Try to boost yourself up first and when you take a look again for things to improve upon, know that you are learning, as is every artist in their craft, and give yourself grace to continue learning and growing as a dancer.
@@emilybender1053 Thank you so so much! This was so nice, thank you for replying I will try this
@@mayrapakastin thank you!
I always felt Giselle is about making things longer not higher
The best things about your videos is bring me and others I’m sure to ballet. As a singer during a performance we have a couple of ballerinas perform. Totally didn’t understand and music director explained that every hand movement where a word in the story. It seemed like a secret code that nobody was to understand. That with the girl with bloody feet in a ice bucket for the next show I lost the interest. I now feel I lost 30 years of great art. Thank you for making sure I go see a ballet.