The girl who is in the Wiggles in the black pointes is also in the Australian ballet. She's one of the first Aboriginal Australian dancers in the company-and the first Aboriginal Australian Wiggle!.
I had goosebumps after That performance where the ballerina was saved by her parter. Every muscle was aching and she pulled it off…so professional. Bravo
I am with Josephine on the whole kicking your leg out while trying to pick up something and I never have taken ballet a day in my life. I must have just been a ballerina in a past life or something 😂😂😂
it really is easier! the leg is like a counterweight to your torso so you don't have to work as hard to straighten back up! i am a disabled former dancer and i don't kick my leg up super high or anything but i totally use that trick to save effort when i have to bend over.
I know how much hard, hard work goes into ballet. And children at that age should not work hard. And if anyone comes now and tells me it's what they all want and it's not the parents whipping them through it to have their own ego and vanity satisfied: I know those parents. I know how little time those children have to be children. It's not cute and it's the opposite of wholesome.
@@inkenhafner7187 That's a fair criticism. I'll admit my perspective is skewed by my own experiences with dancing as a child, which were not in a studio or competitive context, so in my memory, it feels fun and joyful. That said, I agree, children shouldn't work hard, especially on shaping their bodies for exacting standards like there are in ballet. Thank you for your thoughts on this, I appreciate the different perspective.
Actually, could you get those pointe-style heels and do a comparison between their construction and actual pointe shoes?! I think that would be really cool!
All the things I have learned here that nobody ever told me when I danced (1953-1963) the knowledge of which might have kept me from so much pain and having to quit something I loved so much.
Those ballet inspired heels are very cute! I've seen many variations from many different brands and they also come in flat from other brands (I have two pairs of the flat ones) and that's how you do a ballet inspired outfit without injuring yourself. I understand the appeal of balletcore aesthetically, in this way you're not risking your physical integrity or coming across as insulting to dancers.
I play roller derby and since I can't skate with socks on, I started wearing ouch pouches/silicone toe pads and my left one is CHEWED UP lol.. Not a dancer but STILL so relatable
Evie Ferris from The Wiggles (Initially A Blue Wiggle, but now more comfortably The Yellow Wiggle - with traditional red and black stripes) seen dancing in a gorgeous yellow tutu and her trademark black pointe shoes is an incredibly talented and proud Taribelang and Djiabugay woman. She is 26 and has been a member of The Australian Ballet since she was 17, having previously attended The Australian Ballet School International Training Program from age 12, along with her sister Ella. Evie is creative in all aspects of the arts and is a huge advocate for the visibility and inclusion indigenous children and young people in ballet and the performing arts.
Oh, the short of Oleg dancing in Mariinsky theatre here, 1:23, with fake arches! Thank a lot! I adore his 'eto zhe alek' channel. And waiting for the next episode of your sincere reactions!
I had to laugh at the picking up keys one as I do the extreme dancer pick up, but I'm not a dancer, lol. I'm just a very flexible mid 40s woman that wanted to be a dancer as a kid but my mom told me that the teacher of the few classes I took at around 5 or 6 years old said I was as graceful as an elephant. 🤨 Thanks Mom for the confidence boost.
I've got a spine injury which has affected my left leg. I'm not a dancer, but it really IS easier to bend down to pick up stuff from the floor on one leg with the other one stretched behind me 😅 Maybe not pointed at the ceiling, but I totally get what you mean.
Couldn't say for sure, but the only story I can think of that would require such a dapper looking Donkey would be Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream. Puck turns an annoying actor named Bottom into a donkey, and Queen Titania of the fairies is love potioned into falling in love with him. I checked, there is a ballet adaptation...so probably? But it could be something else.
Looks like rehearsal for the Royal Ballet production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. If so, that's definitely a "bro" a Josephine said it. Bottom is played by a male dancer en pointe.
Definitely A Midsummer Night's Dream. I remember when it was first being produced, there were videos on youtube of Bottom's dancer preparing to dance en pointe
OMG I KNEW IT! I read about the male ballet dancer who would play Bottom and he would wear pointe (point? Masculine??) shoes to simulate hooves. Told my former dance teacher about it and she *refused* to believe me - I feel so VINDICATED!!
I'm not a dancer and never have been would love to have learned before my back gave out. But I do the leg l ift when I bend over to get stuff pretty often.
Girl. You're have a point. 'Cause bending over to pick something of the floor is horrible for the back. Some dancers are not so cautious about theirs bodies.
The donkey is Bottom from Frederick Ashton's "The Dream", based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was one of, if not the first ballet in which a man dances on pointe.
Hi joseqhine because summer we are going to Miami and i am getting my first pair of point shoes¡ I have been your fan for a loooong time have ballet have been my life and im 11 years old but i know you are on California😢😢sending love from México 🇲🇽
congrats! if im not mistaken I believe she's gone to Miami for diff events etc u never know u can see if she'll be there already doing fittings? or she does online fittings too. im not sure how they work but just putting it out there in case it might helpful. good luck!
I remember seeing a video of the donkey mask dancer on the English Royal Ballet's channel a few years ago. It's the role of Bottom frrom A Midsummer Nights dream. Another role from the Royal Ballet that combines tap and ballet is the Mad Hatter from Alice In Wonderland originated by Steven McRae (the same production where the queen of hearts is in a massive wheel around heart)
Funny thing my father knew the wiggles he didn’t know them like on a personal level but he worked with them a few times not in the show like production he works in the TV industry. So when I saw that wiggles tiktok I was like 👀 That aside I loveeee your videos and watch them whenever I can❤ keep up the hard work!
is the one with all the woodwinds in the studio ( 1:49 ) at interlochen???? i took ballet classes there as my elective during summer camp and did not like them
I love ballet but I haven't done it since I was 6. They tried to force flexibility on us(think of the videos where little girls are crying being forced to stretch in an abusive way and that's when I quit). Would it be possible for an adult with poor hip mobility to get back into it for for fun? I'm have hyper mobility everywhere else.
Of course you can still do ballet! I myself started ballet when I was 16 with no flexibility or any experience. I'll have to admit that it took some time to find the right ballet studio, but I would advice to just go for it. There are many great dancers in my class in their 30s to 40s, who never took ballet before.
Absolutely! like the above comment says it may take time to find the right studio but there's many adult classes that allow you to do it for fun. I'd also recommend Kathryn Morgan's channel, Josephine just did another video w her she's such a sweetheart n amazing teacher. she has a ton of videos for all different experience levels. they might be fun for you to do while you're looking for a studio. ☺ lots of luck!
The donkey is the character named Bottom from a A Midsummer Night's Dream. If you've never seen it.... it's so pretty to look at.. So dreamy. I think that costume is actually the one that the Royal uses.
My son did three solid years of daily wiggles when gorgeous Emma the ballerina was a part of them. I’m not a dancer at all but we all were during those few years haha
I love these videos so much I've just been binge watching all of these during the summer haha. I just had a question bc this is something that i've been struggling with for a long time and it is really putting a dent in my progress for pointe. I suffered from an ankle sprain a while back and I let it go untreated for a while and when I finally went to a physiotherapist, he gave me some exercises that helped get my strength back. One of the exercises were raises and releves. It helped strengthen my ankle, however I notice now that when I do a releve or try to point my foot, there is often a pain. The pain is in my anterior tendon area. Does anyone have any tips, this would be greatly appreciated!
I totally understand the struggle of finding tiny pointe shoes. I wear a uk size 1. Not sure on other countries sizes. Think that's a 33 euro . But that's my feet as an adult, do I had to find a shoe for an adult doing ballet but in tiny. Luckily I found Fuzi.
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I love how these have gone from "let's traumatize josephine with cups" to "melt her heart with children and ballerinos so she can be happy"
Lol so true
But also sneak cups in occasionally to keep her on her toes 👀
I'm new here, what's the cups thing?
@@RavenSutcliffe people put plastic cups in there feet and put socks over top and act like there point shoes (as a joke)
@@lils9695 😱
(Thanks for the explanation!)
those little polish ballerinas made me tear up THEYRE SO FREAKING CUTE 😭😭😭😭
I always panic cuz I can’t tell if they are on pointe or not
@alabalsu9373 omg that's so cool! she sound a lot like my old teacher too :)
Has Josephine reacted to Bianca's "Ballet dancers in hip hop class" shorts yet? They're hilarious
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YESSS OMG THEYRE SO GOOD
The girl who is in the Wiggles in the black pointes is also in the Australian ballet. She's one of the first Aboriginal Australian dancers in the company-and the first Aboriginal Australian Wiggle!.
I had goosebumps after That performance where the ballerina was saved by her parter. Every muscle was aching and she pulled it off…so professional. Bravo
Isabella Boylston, Principal Dancer, American Ballet Theatre. Great dancer, hilarious posts.
I am with Josephine on the whole kicking your leg out while trying to pick up something and I never have taken ballet a day in my life. I must have just been a ballerina in a past life or something 😂😂😂
Same here.
it really is easier! the leg is like a counterweight to your torso so you don't have to work as hard to straighten back up! i am a disabled former dancer and i don't kick my leg up super high or anything but i totally use that trick to save effort when i have to bend over.
I also do this and I have also never danced, it's like a counterbalance lol
I do that too, or the frog position (I'm also not a ballerina) 😂
Nomination: a special edition of reactions to only cute wholesome stuff, like tiny ballerinas ❤
And dogs dancing a choreographed dance with their humans.
I know how much hard, hard work goes into ballet. And children at that age should not work hard.
And if anyone comes now and tells me it's what they all want and it's not the parents whipping them through it to have their own ego and vanity satisfied: I know those parents. I know how little time those children have to be children.
It's not cute and it's the opposite of wholesome.
@@inkenhafner7187 That's a fair criticism. I'll admit my perspective is skewed by my own experiences with dancing as a child, which were not in a studio or competitive context, so in my memory, it feels fun and joyful. That said, I agree, children shouldn't work hard, especially on shaping their bodies for exacting standards like there are in ballet. Thank you for your thoughts on this, I appreciate the different perspective.
Actually, could you get those pointe-style heels and do a comparison between their construction and actual pointe shoes?! I think that would be really cool!
All the things I have learned here that nobody ever told me when I danced (1953-1963) the knowledge of which might have kept me from so much pain and having to quit something I loved so much.
Loved that dancer at the end of her performance, the way her partner stepped up and looked after her.
That’s Isabella Boylston. She’s a principal dancer at ABT.😊
The ballerina from the wiggles is Evie Ferris she’s from The Australian Ballet and is one of the yellow wiggles! She’s so incredible
Came here to rep Evie too.
She’s a national treasure! ☺️
And Emma did ballet and Irish step dance. They pick some talented people to be Wiggles.
Those ballet inspired heels are very cute! I've seen many variations from many different brands and they also come in flat from other brands (I have two pairs of the flat ones) and that's how you do a ballet inspired outfit without injuring yourself. I understand the appeal of balletcore aesthetically, in this way you're not risking your physical integrity or coming across as insulting to dancers.
I play roller derby and since I can't skate with socks on, I started wearing ouch pouches/silicone toe pads and my left one is CHEWED UP lol.. Not a dancer but STILL so relatable
Can you swap them back and forth or is it only for one side? I can see how the left would be wrecked in a crossover!
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At this point Josephine is the only person on the internet who can say "i love those feet" without it being weird
3:46 as well as being a wiggle, evie is also actually in the corps of the australian ballet company :)
Evie Ferris from The Wiggles (Initially A Blue Wiggle, but now more comfortably The Yellow Wiggle - with traditional red and black stripes) seen dancing in a gorgeous yellow tutu and her trademark black pointe shoes is an incredibly talented and proud Taribelang and Djiabugay woman. She is 26 and has been a member of The Australian Ballet since she was 17, having previously attended The Australian Ballet School International Training Program from age 12, along with her sister Ella. Evie is creative in all aspects of the arts and is a huge advocate for the visibility and inclusion indigenous children and young people in ballet and the performing arts.
Josephine, after putting yourself through 20+ of these videos you deserve those shoes 👞 ❤
Thank you for being such a sweet lady and for being so generous with your kindness to the tiktok dancers. I love your positivity!
How are these teeny tiny dancers so good! Adorable 😄
I'm not a ballet dancer and I lift my leg to pick things up. It really is easier. 😅
I do that a lot too. I have to remind myself not to in public.
I grew up watching my none dancer mum do things like that
Also not a dancer, I do this sometimes too.
Great #22. Can’t wait for #23. Your reactions are so entertaining.
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Oh, the short of Oleg dancing in Mariinsky theatre here, 1:23, with fake arches! Thank a lot! I adore his 'eto zhe alek' channel. And waiting for the next episode of your sincere reactions!
0:48 THE FREEZE FRAME STOP 💀
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I’ve never done ballet, I’m not even a dancer. But these are so funny I can’t stop watching them 😂
I had to laugh at the picking up keys one as I do the extreme dancer pick up, but I'm not a dancer, lol. I'm just a very flexible mid 40s woman that wanted to be a dancer as a kid but my mom told me that the teacher of the few classes I took at around 5 or 6 years old said I was as graceful as an elephant. 🤨 Thanks Mom for the confidence boost.
When are you going to post fittings again? I miss those.
Those incredibly talented little girls! The one in red was like a little butterfly or a fairy princess. Oh my gosh!
I never ask to sit down, one time i looked so tired and sick my teacher was like, Sweetie, sit down.
“Fairy Feet” lol that’s me with all my dance friends they have such tiny dainty fairy feet! 🤣😅 Josephine what do you think or Bloch European Balance?
Whoever was in the Donkey costume … they did an amazing job
3:33
I’m not a dancer but I do karate and I pick things up like this as well 😂 it’s so fun and it’s so much easier!
I need those bratz doll ballet shoes ASAP!
The tiny dancer in the red tutu is ADVANCED!
I've got a spine injury which has affected my left leg. I'm not a dancer, but it really IS easier to bend down to pick up stuff from the floor on one leg with the other one stretched behind me 😅 Maybe not pointed at the ceiling, but I totally get what you mean.
Oh - the teeny-tinies taking their first ballet lesson .... 🥰🥰🥰 So adorable.
Couldn't say for sure, but the only story I can think of that would require such a dapper looking Donkey would be Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream. Puck turns an annoying actor named Bottom into a donkey, and Queen Titania of the fairies is love potioned into falling in love with him. I checked, there is a ballet adaptation...so probably? But it could be something else.
Looks like rehearsal for the Royal Ballet production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. If so, that's definitely a "bro" a Josephine said it. Bottom is played by a male dancer en pointe.
Definitely A Midsummer Night's Dream. I remember when it was first being produced, there were videos on youtube of Bottom's dancer preparing to dance en pointe
American Ballet Theatre - "The Dream" 2002, Julio Bragado-Young in the role of Bottom
Literally says "It's a midsummer night's dream" on screen after she asks.
@@MrsBrit1 good catch, I didn't see it, watching on a small screen
I've seen the Nutcracker twice. That is the limit of my ballet experience. I don't know why I love these videos but I do!!!
Slay , queen ! I melt . Truth and beauty , music and dance .
ahhh i didn’t realize it was spencer rubin but when they started playing i realized lol 😂😂
The first one is so accurate 😭🤣
That Midsummer Night's Dream performance was delightful wow
HI SPENCER!!! :>
(and yes they are actually playing)
About 5:52 the pointe horse tap dancing, this is originally from national ballet of Japan. The horse tap ballet dancer is Keigo Fukuda.
OMG I KNEW IT! I read about the male ballet dancer who would play Bottom and he would wear pointe (point? Masculine??) shoes to simulate hooves.
Told my former dance teacher about it and she *refused* to believe me - I feel so VINDICATED!!
I loved the wiggles when i was a toddler and that one tiktok made my day, I remembered my obsession
The little “brawo” mad me cry she so cute🥺🥹🥺🥹
What No Cups....? HAHA! And you definitely need a pair of ballet heels.
3:32 lol not a dancer but I always do that to give me balance 😂
Josephine is sooo happy that there wasn't any cups in that vid 😂
I need to know what makes a foot beautiful in Josephine’s eyes 😂
I'm not a dancer and never have been would love to have learned before my back gave out. But I do the leg l ift when I bend over to get stuff pretty often.
Girl. You're have a point. 'Cause bending over to pick something of the floor is horrible for the back.
Some dancers are not so cautious about theirs bodies.
4:48 that was my point shoe size and my mom called them baby doll shoes XD
As a fellow bassoonist and I’m in ballet I am very pleased with this vid
The donkey is Bottom from Frederick Ashton's "The Dream", based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It was one of, if not the first ballet in which a man dances on pointe.
That adorable little kid at 3:55 is better than I'll ever be 😂😪
This is amazing
ugh omg i love your ballet videos!!
The Donkey is most likely from A Midsummer Nigh'ts Dream. The role is played by a male dancer and they usually do go en pointe.
....I've done that kick up before. Its so less awkward and IDK how
Hi joseqhine because summer we are going to Miami and i am getting my first pair of point shoes¡ I have been your fan for a loooong time have ballet have been my life and im 11 years old but i know you are on California😢😢sending love from México 🇲🇽
congrats! if im not mistaken I believe she's gone to Miami for diff events etc u never know u can see if she'll be there already doing fittings? or she does online fittings too. im not sure how they work but just putting it out there in case it might helpful. good luck!
Me dancing for you a few years and having point shoes and all that kind of fun stuff and both those little girls dancing better than me😂😅😂
I remember seeing a video of the donkey mask dancer on the English Royal Ballet's channel a few years ago. It's the role of Bottom frrom A Midsummer Nights dream. Another role from the Royal Ballet that combines tap and ballet is the Mad Hatter from Alice In Wonderland originated by Steven McRae (the same production where the queen of hearts is in a massive wheel around heart)
The donkey is literally my favorite part of midsummer nights dream
i love your vids so much💗💗
I’m ready for part 23 already 😂
I haven’t taken a dance class in 26 years and my foot still goes up when I bend over to pick something up.
Get the shoes get the shoes!
3:36 I am not a ballet dancer neither any type of dancer but the key picking up pose is just what I do lol 😂
Funny thing my father knew the wiggles he didn’t know them like on a personal level but he worked with them a few times not in the show like production he works in the TV industry. So when I saw that wiggles tiktok I was like 👀
That aside I loveeee your videos and watch them whenever I can❤ keep up the hard work!
4:23 maya from mba be like: 😂😂😂
That’s what I was thinking 😂
6:00 Only thought in my head: when did A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare become a ballet?😂😂😂
3:32 i didnt do ballet, but did other forms of dance, cheerleading Nd gymnastics and at 40 i still pick my keys up this way
Louboutin designed flats shoes which imitated pointes plateform. They are called Mamadrague.
YESSS SHE IS BACK
The First Lady is me trying to figure out Bloch shoes.
‘ThE wIgGlEs!’ Me: OH MY GOSH, SHE’S A BALLET DANCER TOO?!
When I first got fit for my pointe shoes like for the first time the pointe shoe fitter was like saying so many things and I was just 🫤
“So do you have a thing for loving feet or what girl” is what my sis said when she came in my room 😭😂😭😂
These Videos make me want to go back to ballet 😭😭
Let’s be obvious She is funny way too funny.
"In a British National Geographic accent" 😂😂😂 Perfection.
If i was Rich id be trying ballet! How ballerina’s Pick up keys,I personally think it’s easier + fun 😂
4:31 wait till she sees maya schonbrun's toe pads 😂
is the one with all the woodwinds in the studio ( 1:49 ) at interlochen???? i took ballet classes there as my elective during summer camp and did not like them
noooo we need more videooooooos
I want some of those shoes at the end too!
I love ballet but I haven't done it since I was 6. They tried to force flexibility on us(think of the videos where little girls are crying being forced to stretch in an abusive way and that's when I quit).
Would it be possible for an adult with poor hip mobility to get back into it for for fun? I'm have hyper mobility everywhere else.
Of course you can still do ballet! I myself started ballet when I was 16 with no flexibility or any experience. I'll have to admit that it took some time to find the right ballet studio, but I would advice to just go for it. There are many great dancers in my class in their 30s to 40s, who never took ballet before.
Absolutely! like the above comment says it may take time to find the right studio but there's many adult classes that allow you to do it for fun.
I'd also recommend Kathryn Morgan's channel, Josephine just did another video w her she's such a sweetheart n amazing teacher. she has a ton of videos for all different experience levels. they might be fun for you to do while you're looking for a studio. ☺ lots of luck!
The donkey is the character named Bottom from a A Midsummer Night's Dream. If you've never seen it.... it's so pretty to look at.. So dreamy. I think that costume is actually the one that the Royal uses.
My son did three solid years of daily wiggles when gorgeous Emma the ballerina was a part of them. I’m not a dancer at all but we all were during those few years haha
I love these videos so much I've just been binge watching all of these during the summer haha.
I just had a question bc this is something that i've been struggling with for a long time and it is really putting a dent in my progress for pointe.
I suffered from an ankle sprain a while back and I let it go untreated for a while and when I finally went to a physiotherapist, he gave me some exercises that helped get my strength back. One of the exercises were raises and releves. It helped strengthen my ankle, however I notice now that when I do a releve or try to point my foot, there is often a pain. The pain is in my anterior tendon area.
Does anyone have any tips, this would be greatly appreciated!
I would recommend talking to a ballet teacher maybe
I’m pretty sure the heels at the end are from CIDER
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I think the male dancer en pointe in the donkey suite might be Bennet Gartside, from the Royal Ballet, doing Don Quixote rehearsal
I was wondering if it was a Midsummer's ballet.
It used to be so hard to find shoes, my feet are small, thankdully the internet exists now. 😂
I totally understand the struggle of finding tiny pointe shoes. I wear a uk size 1. Not sure on other countries sizes. Think that's a 33 euro .
But that's my feet as an adult, do I had to find a shoe for an adult doing ballet but in tiny. Luckily I found Fuzi.
2:30 Aaay, finally! A ballerina with a tattoo!
7:09 no, cuz that stage looks EXACTLY the same as the recital I do every year for my studio 😭
0:45 bro did her dirty
1:23 OMG that’s my ballet centre😮
I'm not a dancer, but I do lift my back leg when I'm picking something up😂