OUR TOP 10 FAVORITE BALLET STEPS | The Steps that ✨Spark Joy✨ | Ballet Reign
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- Today we're unveiling our personal top 10 favorite ballet steps! We're talking about some of the most used "staple" steps from the art and some of the under-appreciated steps... all of which are such a joy for us to dance. Hopefully some of y'all can relate with us, or at least have fun with us as we nerd out about some of our favorite things ✨🩰
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I'm 99% certain this is the cheeriest channel on YT. Always interesting. Well done ladies.
This one made our day!! Thank u so much 🥹🥹
@@balletreign YW 😄
Can I just say, I love the way Eden looks at Jordan when she's speaking. You can see the respect and admiration for her in her eyes. Your relationship is beautiful. God bless ❤
Ballet equivalent of two set violin!!! You ladies are such a balm to the dim and serious news trends out there. Keep up the good work of spreading light and positive vibes. 😊😊😊
THIS!! This comment! I feel like you just described a feeling that I didn't know I was feeling. Ballet Reign always gave me these feelings of familiarity, and now that you mentioned, it's probably because they give off similar vibes to TwosetViolin.
*happy tears* 🥹🥹 thank u so much, this really made our day ❤️
I too love Two Set Violin, and definitely agree with these comments
YES that's what I thought the first time I watched! Ballet two set. They should really collaborate: classical music and ballet
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD FIND ANOTHER TWOSETTER HERE!!! twosetballet!!!
I love Coppélia's Mazurka too, one of the best parts of this ballet!
It's funny because in French, the step called "saut de chat" is a "grand jeté", and the "pas de chat" is a "saut de chat"!
That’s so funny! In America they’re four different steps lol 😂
Tour jeté en l'aire!
Firstly, because we happen to have great facility with this step (why choose a step as 'favourite' if it escapes one's grasp?!); and secondly, because it is so bloody dramatic -- jumping and turning and then landing with flair! (Although, confidentiality, we perform this wonderful step better starting from our right side rather than the left, alas. But don't we all have a 'better' side/leg, especially for turns? hehe)
Love tour jetés!! Def dramatic, but yea ur not alone on the right side 😂
I can get behind all of these steps except the hops on pointe. To me, they look clumsy on the best of dancers and the feet are seldom in a flattering position. Not to mention the bended legs!
Hahaha we actually agree, it’s not the prettiest but boy is it ever fun 😅😅
Thanks ladies -- I loved this program! When you mentioned the mazurka my heart did a little pitty-pat and my hands were clapping in memory of one of the earliest character pieces that I learned for a childhood recital! Thank you 😊❤
Haha you’re one of us! 😂 the mazurka always makes us happy ☺️🙌🏻
So I absolutely love a piqué manège anytime it's given. But there is one series of steps that I just absolutely love and it's tombe pas de bourrée glissade. You can literally use that in any combination and it just looks so pretty and feels pretty when you are doing the steps.
Yesssss tombé pas de bourrée is such a fun staple passage! Feels natural and beautiful, and just ✨flows✨
@@balletreign exactly, everytime we are in class and are doing zigzags I always do those steps. Also did yall have a chance to watch the production of Rumpelstiltskin I sent.
I used to love doing a tour jeté!
Those are great!! 🙌🏻😄
My favourite is coupe jete manege, you really feel like you're flying!
my favorite was always the coup de pied. precipite is fun too, any small happy Skippy type step, turn, and small leaps. the larger movements do feel good. very good. you two are adorable
Fun, as always. I would like you to do a segment on character dances, and maybe the key steps that most choreographers generally include in them: hoedown, mazurka, polonaise, reel, czardas, Spanish, Oriental, tarantella, trepak, etc.
YES!
That would be fun! We love character dances. Thanks for y’all’s suggestions 👍🏻😄
I did dance for only one year when I was little. I loved plie. I liked how there were different levels, grand and demi. I also loved practicing all the ballet positions. Although, sadly, I don't remember them all anymore. In tap shuffle step ball change was my favorite.
Love renversé 💕 It has my heart. Tour jetés should also be on the list. Whenever it is put in a combo my entire class gets excited. Also I love balonés on pointe. Absolutely amazing video, love the admission of percipités on the list.
I started out as an international folk dancer. The steps I liked best were from the Hungarian Csardas! 😍
Yes renverse!
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Hello from Copenhagen A small dose of Bournonville is always good. I think that if it is too far to Copenhagen for you at the moment, They have don a lot of Bournonville and Bournonville style at the Oklahoma City Ballet. They had a Danish Ballet Master for several years, Jacob Sparso. He is the son og my teacher in the school, but he has conciderably less hair now than when I last met him. He is very good.
Thanks for sharing your insight and experience, we love Bournonville ballets ✨ Thanks for watching and Hey from the USA! 🇺🇸 🇩🇰😄
Tour jeté was always my favorite.
Always a fave in grand allegro combos 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Fun fact! The mezerka is a type of figure skating jump too! It's a beginner jump to learn before bigger jumps later with the same intro step.
First of all, loving the Tchaikovsky’s PDD background music 🎼 ; I love all types of turns en manège ! If you add a grand jeté, even better. I know I’m probably in the minority but I love degagé turns (single, double, arms up, arms down), fouettés and Italian fouettés (I guess I love turning except the arabesque/attitude turns in the Paquita variation). I LOVE more than anything all the grand allegro jumps - there’s nothing like going downstage on a raked stage!!! Hops en pointe have always been a favorite and are definitely a restful part of a variation. However, to me, music plays a huge part on my favorite steps. If I love the music of a variation, I’ll love the steps. Renversé is a favorite of mine too but I’m picky about how it’s done. You have to move your leg all the way to attitude with exaggerated épaulement. The pas de valse and Mazurka are life. For example, in the Satanella variation you showed Obraztsova performing the chaînés, my favorite part is when she does the pas de valse.
I always think of the Mazurka has very grand!
It feels that way!! Such a great step 👏👏👏
This video was in the same spot for the last couple of days so I was like OK OK I will watch
pique turns my best friend pique turns :) i also really like embautees. theyre so fun. you get to do funny little kicks across the floor!
Love, love, love you two ladies!
We love y’all!! 🥹🥹
Thank you, much love 💕
1. Silly question: have you ever switched sides (L/R) for your narration? Why or why not?
2. I would like to see your opinons of GOATs - and why you've selected them - female leads, male leads, corps de ballet, choreographers, ballet companies, and of course ballets.
3. One aspect of your channel that I LOVE is showing why the chosen dancer is exceptional....OH, and the different techniques from around the world. For example I would love to hear about ballets performed and how they differ from what we see from "The Big Three" - France, Russia , and N.America. Ideological /technique/choreography differences between, say, China or India?🥰🥰
Great questions!! We’d love to address those in another video… not enough space in the comments lol 😂
@@balletreign absolutely, I was brainstorming ideas for possible future episodes …sort of!
Right. Eden has ASMR talent yet to be reallsed.
Jordan ain't shabby either.
Ballet commentary ASMR-style... ooh, I feel cosy and relaxed just thinking about it.
12 year old me looooooved renverse.... and then your teacher starts breaking down how you're doing it wrong.
definitely grande jete rn tournant would be my favourite
Yesss absolutely!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks so much girls. I would love you to have demonstrated some of these yourselves. Defo do male steps. And I would be really interested in a look at corps work, favourite patterns and sequences ( snowflakes?)
Yay! Glad u enjoyed. Thanks for your video suggestions, we’d love to talk about these topics!
I really like pique into any balance. Stuff like pique arabesque, pique attitude, and pique fouettés. Something about just stepping into a balance just makes me feel really happy.
Sounds like you have a good sense of balance! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 It’s def a satisfying feeling tho, we love those steps too! 😄😄
When I saw this video I immediately thought of renversé. So seeing that you both love the renversé made me feel so validated. How you both feel about it is exactly how I feel about it as a ballet step!
YESSSS TEAM RENVERSÉ! Welcome to the club 😎✨
I’m not a dancer but it would be interesting to see a ballet where one dancer (or a set of dancers) use only some of the most favorite steps of dancers (although subjective) and then another dancer (set of dancers) only use the least favorite steps. Then those doing the favorite moves are happy/carefree and the others are very mad/disgruntled and it could be a more comedic ballet.
I am ABSOLUTELY #teamrenverse!! I’ve never had them in a dance but I imagine they would be super fun to do and they just look so elegant and that one move alone can give a dance so much more meaning and emotion.
any combination of balance`s and waltz turn. You get to eat space, move your whole body, and it's not very taxing
EXACTLY; low effort, high reward ✨🙌🏻
I was in Coppelia this past holiday season and the Mazurka was a big part of the production! Wonderful to watch and dance I bet ( I was an Actor in the ballet!)....love your presentation and I am learning so much!
LOVE LVOE LVOE
Yaaayy we’re happy ur enjoying yourself here! We love those steps too, thanks for sharing ur faves! It makes us smile when we read about what y’all love doing ☺️
As for favourite steps, it has to be the double assemblee lifts in the final pas de deux in Manon.
Yessssss!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 thanks for sharing your fave step!
My favorite steps are pirouette en dedans and ballonné. But I do like a good saut de chat like everyone else ❤
Yesss such fun steps! We love pirouette en dedans, especially en attitude 😄💕
Great that you showed a tiny excerpt of Ana Luisa in the Prix de Lausanne. She‘s amazing and will, I think, be a big star
Absolutely!! She’s so technically sound and has such a captivating stage presence. Lovely dancer!
I would love to listen to your expertise how ballet is evolving, is there any insider discourse about old-school vs new-school, are there any tradition orthodoxies that don't like untraditional approach and how do you beautiful women see the future of this marvelous art form.
Ps. Greetings from Poland, birthplace of Mazurka!
Oooohhh what a great topic! Thanks so much for your thoughtful question, there’s definitely a lot we could touch on. Stay tuned 😉. Big love from the USA to you and the Mazurka Land!! 🇵🇱 💕
@@balletreign Many thanks for replying to my comment, you made my weekend even more enjoyable. I'm always so happy to see you post a new video, in many ways you rekindled my fascination wit this art form. My education background is costume design so I'm very interested how costumes are affecting your experiences as ballet performers. What gives you confidence to convey characters, what gives you difficulties, the dynamics between performers and costume designers. I know I'm being so greedy with my requests but those are literally questions I would ask you if we ever meet for a coffee time. Your world is just so fascinating I simply cannot help myself!
We are grateful for your requests and kind words! That’s definitely a good topic we could talk about in another video sometime, so stay tuned! 😉
NGL, I had totally forgotten about today being a Ballet Reign episode because of the Yumi (Secret Project 3 from Brandon Sanderson) release, but I'm very glad to watch this now that I've finished the book
Haven’t finished watching your video yet but I jus want to say I love the Tchaikovsky pas de deux in the background hahah
Lolll u noticed 😂
Please, please do a post about it! There are so many great performances for it online. (Marianela and Tiler to start with. )@@balletreign
my favourite jump is currently a saut de chat cause it feels like if I stop mid air
I'm glad to hear that hopping on pointe is one of your favorite steps, because when I watch a dancer hopping like that it makes my feet hurt and I feel like I'm watching someone in pain. Good to know I needn't feel that way anymore.
You’re a very empathetic person! It’s definitely not anywhere as bad as it may seem 😄✨👍🏻
thanx for giving us fans the names of these steps we've been watching for years! so behind the scenes! "The Ballet Reign Insider Channel''🎭
We’re glad u found this helpful!! 😂🎭 Ballet is like a whole culture with its own language, but so fun to learn about 🙌🏻
Team Mazurka in Coppelia. ❤
Long live the MAZURKA ✨💕
Assemble batus! 😊 Also, that weird kind of battement where you put your leg in kind of a passe, turn it in, then kick it out. I don't know what it's called, but it's so fun.
OH YEA THAT ONE! We always called that a “squirkle” 🤣. It feels so good in the hip joint!
@@balletreign A squirkle! That's an awesome name for it, I love it! 😊 Maybe we can spread that around among ballet students?
YES absolutely!! We always called it that; there a lot of other names for it, but this is the one we grew up with and will never part with 😂
@@balletreign We definitely need to spread this name around so it becomes official. 😊🩰
You are the best, your enthusiasm is contagious (and it’s a professional opinion cause I’m a doctor, though I wanted to be a ballet dancer really badly, but I lack elasticity, eventhough I tried everything to stretch myself, I guess an iron rod is more bendable)
Relatable 😂
YALL are the best! So thankful for people like u who are as enthusiastic about ballet as we are 💕☺️
We need flexible doctors, too!
I love the little cou de pied when you get down from fifth releve. I think it happens in some versions of Giselle. It is soooo cute and when you are your balance it is soooo satisfying. I also like doing failles because it really extends your line and gives you breathing time :D
There’s nothing like finding that *stillness* is a good balance ✨🙌🏻 and failles are fantastic for getting air in the lungs!
I absolutely love brisé
Thanks for sharing ur fave!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
You guys have the most beautiful hand gestures I can tell you guys have been training a lot of port de bras even your little hand gestures are lovely
Aww thanks!! That’s so nice of u to say!🥹🥹
I agree with all of these!!
Love precipite and renverse, esp the renverse that can be held so it looks like you're just suspended in mid-air. Thank you for clarifying that the little step with the pas de cheval is a kind of precipite! I have never really known what to call it! Fun video, as always!
We could talk about renversé forever 😍. We’re glad u had fun and learned something new! 🙌🏻✨
The Waltz Turn! Oh, Ladies - please comment on Balanchine’s Vienna Waltzes.
Great idea, thanks! 😁😁
This video made my work day go by smoother. I'm not familiar with steps for ballet but I like the one I usually see done as a duet/ guide where the ballerina is in a set pose and guided in a turn. The poise to make holding the position for the extent of the turn looks so easy but so hard.
Aww we’re so happy to hear that! We’re glad u had a good day 💕🥹
It sounds like you’re describing a *partnered promenade* which is def one of our fave partnering steps 😄
As an audience member, my heart melts when I see a slow developée. And I'm a sucker for a step you probably find boring: bourée.
Oh, I love the Mazurka in Coppélia. One of the pieces I've listened to and watched the most from the ballet.
Our fave part of the ballet ❤️❤️❤️
Underrated channel! Funny and informative and entertaining, it’s great! Keep it up loves❤ (btw I adore renverse!)
You’re the best!! Thank u so much! 🥹🥹
Absolutely agree about the 'underrated', though it's highly rated by MOI. I can't wait to see what topic is next covered!
Very beautiful video and very beautifuls choise! Well done! 😍
Thank you very much!!
YES!!!! Character dance is SO underrated!! The atmosphere of both performing and watching it is absolutely amazing. It made me so happy to hear you talk about the Coppelia mazurka, because, as you said, the music and choreography is so energizing and fun
Yay another character dance fan! There’s nothing like it 🙌🏻😄
I absolutely LOVE character ballet. It makes me so happy whenever I do it because it's so much fun.
You have awakened an interest in ballet for me , the two of you are so easy to listen to with a touch of humour is so refreshing Thank you
Thank you so much for watching and for the kind comment! We’re glad to have you here 💗
I was excited to watch the most difficult first but then realized that is the video how I discovered your channel :)
HAHA 😂
Natalia does the turns so fast that it cheers the heart 🩰🩰🩰👵🇦🇺
As someone who studied Character Dance with some of the greats, in NYC in the 60's through the 80's, let me say right out, that the FOLK could never do Character properly. It takes a lot of ballet training to do it properly...in the best spirit of the Moiseyev Company of Moscow.
Absolutely 🤣🤣 these are probably elaborate “balletified” versions of an original folk dance.
Pas De Puddleduck
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Thank you very much for the video! It's so useful to know the names of these steps.
How easy or difficult is it for dancers to have to adapt styles which are different from classical ballet because a particular scene, or sometimes the whole ballet, requires it?
There is a captivating ballet with a distinctive style of dance called the Legend of Love (or is it just that the hand and arm movements that are different?). Maria Koshkaryova, Shirin Variation: th-cam.com/video/CfhO0ZJEjHU/w-d-xo.html
Definitely a more unusual style: Alina Cojacaru at age 15, D'Artagnan Variation - acting tipsy and does gymnastics too!
th-cam.com/video/1XYoyDdtrlA/w-d-xo.html
The Rite of Spring is even more unusual. This is a short clip from the San Francisco Ballet. The one that looks most unusual to my untrained eye starts at 1:05:
th-cam.com/video/sPpq44uEyXo/w-d-xo.html
I love your background music! What is the name of the music playing at 9:43?
Thank you very much for the video! 🙏😍💐
It's always such a pleasure to have two such cheery ballet educators with wittily-edited videos to brighten our Saturdays!
Take care, Ballet 🩰 Reign 💧 Dears 🦌🦌
That’s a great question, and we’d love to share our experience on adapting to different styles and characters in another video ☺️. Always happy to see you here! ❤️🩰💧🦌
@@balletreign Looking forward to it! 😄🙏🌸🌺
Just the fact that you're doing all those turns on one toe is astonishing to me, a non-dancer. Kudos!
I love you Ballet Reign - you are so delightful ! Sending you aroha (love) from Aotearoa New Zealand
Awww thank you, this made our day!! Big love from Texas USA 🇺🇸❤️🇳🇿
No because the renverse is so showy and luxurious it's amazing 🤩
your videos always make my day! i love the skirt twirl so much as well
Aww your comment made *our* day! Thanks for your kind comment and for being a part of the ballet nerds 💕
Loved this video and learned a couple of new steps I didn't know about :) I'm an amateur dancer and don't have a whole lot of steps in my repertoire but one of my favorites is sissonne, for some odd reason! And adagio in general (where I have lots of time to think and feel like I'm doing things properly. XD)
Glad you found this helpful, and thanks for sharing your favorite steps (YES to more thinking time lol 😆) Keep learning and adding to your ballet vocab, you’re doing great!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thanks for introducing me to the "precipite", a term I never heard of before. Wondering if it is the same as a "contra temps", an introductory step before, or step "against the music"?
That's what my ballet teachers used to call it. AND thanks for the long and deserved tribute to the MAZURKA! It has been a favorite of mine for many decades.
You’re welcome!! Precipité and contra temps are different steps, but very similar! Glad to have another Mazurka fan!!! 🥳🥳
Oh my, you just made me time travel! I didn't remember the name Mazurka, but when you showed the dancers in practice, I was instantly transported to my ten-year-old ballet class!!
I watched that 1975 production of Giselle today, and loved how her skirt swung and floated. Now I know it was a saut de basque, and I adore it!
A delightful, informative video. Thank you both so much!
Thank you!! Glad it was helpful to u ✨😁😁
Merci!
lol...favorite things...was just in Salzburg last week!
No way!! That’s awesome! 😁✨
Imagine me, a metal head, going around with Doe, a deer, a female deer...in my head all day. Oh, it was sooo beautiful in Austria! Walked and hiked over 160 miles. @@balletreign
I'm loving this channel. It's like eavesdropping on dancers when they're talking shop with each other, but without the rudeness! I also like reading the ballet dancers comments when they add their own experiences and insights. Thanks!
Haha that’s the PERFECT way to put it! 😂😂
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i didn’t know y’all called a russian padache a “russian padache” at my studio, we call it italian padache, that’s cool y’all call it russian
Haha yea different people call things by different names in ballet. Like how dégagé also goes by glissé or jeté… it’s funny but weird 😅
Really enjoyed this video :) was so excited for the bonus category!!
I LOVE the renverse! My favourite ballet step is the attitude derrière and/or anything in that position, and the renverse is the epitome of attitude derrière
Anything in attitude derrière is *chefs kiss* 👍🏻
i'm that one dancer who doesnt like grand allegro 😭 but it's bc i have ankle problems so i have a hard time w jumps
Your videos have greatly increased my pleasure in watching ballet. I am watching with much more understanding and appreciation. Plus, your commentaries are funny and so good-hearted. Love your channel!
This made our day 🥹🥹 Thank u so much!! Keep Ballet-Nerding 🤓🤓
Hi am new to your channel and LOVE it. Not sure if you have covered this already but if you haven’t please could you compare the 32 pirouettes I think it is in Swan Lake from Margot Fonteyn to present day ballerinas. Who was the best ever? Thank you for your lovely content such a total joy ❤
Welcome to the channel! Glad you are enjoying the ballet nerd content 😊💗 Great video idea, thanks for the suggestion!
Love your videos ❤ What’s the difference between bournonville jeté and saut de Chat? Also, I would like to see a counterpart video for male steps 😊
One of the biggest differences is that Saut de chat leads with a bent leg before straightening whereas a bournonville leads with a straight leg and the back leg stays bent in attitude. Hope that makes sense! We’d def love to do one on male steps 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
i have a ballet question- how much of freedom does an individual choreograph have? i mean is the nutckracker i see in my country the same as the nutcracker in london? does the dancer have any freedom as to modifying a variation? thanks 🦋🦋
Oooh good one. We don’t get a ton of liberty in terms of the steps themselves, but we are allowed to play with the interpretation of the characters. There’s a lot more to it so maybe we’ll address this in a future vid!
@@balletreign ok great i'll wait for that one, keep growing 🧚♀🧚♀
Tour Jeté and tour endeaor? (not good with French spelling lol) and forgot what the step is called, but it's like a pivot, but you go from having your foot up in front of you, and turn to make it an arabesque.
Yesss we get u! It could be a tour jeté/entrelacé/grand jeté entournent (legs switch in the air before landing) or battement fouetté (same leg stays in the air in the front and in arabesque). thanks for sharing ur fave! 🙌🏻🙌🏻👍🏻😁
does anyone know the name of the first song? it sounds so familiar to me and i'm really curious as to what this song is!
Contretemps changing direction! Tombe, pas de bourree, glissade, saut de chat CONTRETEMPS reverse!
YES contretemps!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
What is the name for when a ballerina walks downstage on pointe with tiny fast steps (is that piqué?) looking down at her feet and moving her head from left to right to match which foot is moving?
I just looooooove a good attitude devant, a sissone and a pique turn. But hops on point are not for me!!!
Those are all fabulous!! Attitude devant is such a sophisticated line ✨💕 thanks for sharing your faves!
algo comment!
Lol thank u! 😂😂
Do you ever show your own videos? :D
Maybe in the future?? 🫢🫢
I personally hard disagree on hops en pointe being "fun". I find it one of, if not the most difficult step on pointe. Mainly because you have to essentially rewire your muscle memory on how you're supposed to execute a pointe step, or really ANY ballet step. Almost every other pointe step is completed with either a releve, pique, or rise, but hops en pointe require you to shape your foot in a completely different way and then return to that position every time you hop. Two legged hops en pointe are fine since you have more stability, things like eschapes (probably spelled wrong). But one legged hops are a nightmare for me, and those are the ones most frequently used in variations or dances because they're more showy. Along with the step just feeling uncomfortable, I just find it to look kinda ugly... But they're in almost half of the classical variations for some reason??
Don't get me wrong, there are other steps I dislike too. But those steps I can at least appreciate in that they prepare you for other, bigger things you do in the center or at performances. Such as steps like frapppes or pirouettes at the barre, which prepare you for petite alegro and partnering respectively. But what do hops en pointe prepare you for? NOTHING! At least not anything I can think of. They're awkward steps with completely different foot work than most dancers are used to and they don't even look pretty!
Anyways, that was my rant about how hops en pointe suck. Thanks for reading. 😅
Hahah Thanks for sharing your rant on hops on pointe. Most dancers can agree they are hard and not the most glamorous step 😅
You two earth angels need to stop making such amazing content I'm not getting my housework done 🤣🤣🤣, I swear it's Ballet Nerd Nirvana 💜🩰would you ever think of starting a podcast? 💜
ur comment made us smile 😆😆. We’re so glad ur enjoying our videos! A podcast would be very interesting… what topics would y’all like us to cover? 🤔☺️
hops on point are THE WORST steps ever created
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