As a dancer for 16 years the hip , knee, back and feet pain is no joke. I’m 38 and have already had back surgery, hip replacements are definitely going to happen in the future. As far as you feet injuries, lambs wool is stuffed into the point of the pointe shoes which is the only cushioning you have, bloody cut feet and ingrown toe nails are inevitable and very common, I had a strong arch so a double shank was needed on the bottom side of my shoe which I still would break sometimes. If anyone here was ever a dancer you can appreciate everything this man said.
You didn't stretch good before doing dance, and also didn't take CBD for inflammation. You also ate inflammation causing foods (dairy, dead animals, etc) and weren't organic vegan. This happens to everyone who isn't the above
@@godjhaka7376 I’m a vegetarian and have been since high school, also CBD wasn’t a thing then. Apparently you don’t understand that stretching is the main focus in ballet and pointe, so I didn’t stretch well is a ridiculous thing to say. No reputable dance academy wouldn’t even let someone enroll into pointe until reaching a intermediate level of basic ballet. Dancing through the pain was a normal expectation when I was younger. I’m 38 so in the late 90’s early 2000’s you just dealt with it.
@@godjhaka7376 Ice baths is what you do for inflammation, my sister is a Radio City Rocket and has been for the last 10 years, CBD is not the solution, ice baths is what they do in between shows . Dancers feet and all the back and hip issues they have are a real thing for them too
Huge issue in the ballet world: instructors pressuring very young students to go en pointe to bring glory to the studio. Letting a young girl under the age of 12 go en pointe is abusive and leads to deformation and issues with internal bone structure. Sadly this happened when I did ballet. Myself and many of my fellow dancers now have deformed feet and can no longer walk properly or normally.
That is terrible! My academy would not allow girls to start pointe before the ages of 12 or 13 - but that was a fair while ago and I know the ballet business has become more ruthless...
@@megan2white I think age 12-13 is perfect! There's lots of ballet competitions now, and some judges for some reason might find a 10 year old en pointe "impressive". Sick!
I am not a natural ballet dancer but once I started my freshman year in highschool I have a dance class our teacher taught us ballet forms and yes we do that pose and it hurts but like I told you I was never trained at that age I never learnt ballet before so I wonder how bad those injuries must be im so sorry to hear that
This is not as common as you make it sound but it is a terrible problem! That instructor should be banned from teaching. Why didn’t you change schools or quit or tell your teacher that you’re not ready yet?
Tell me if I'm wrong, but it seems you guys use your feet in a similar position as the higher than "stiletto heels" put your foot in. That would be like walking 10 miles everyday in Stilletos!!! 😢😭😧😩😰
They have now invented the 3D-printed ballet shoe to reduce pain and injuries in ballerinas. Some inventors are also experimenting with alternate materials to make ballet shoes more durable, stronger and safer. About time modern technology revolutionised the ballet shoe to make ballet safer for ballerinas.
The problem is that the technically advanced shoes are stiffer. Most dancers want to, and need to be able to manipulate their feet in their shoes. I alway preferred a softer shoe and even then, there was a process of beating the box and other prep rituals to prepare them for 8 to 16 hours of dance. Cutting out half the insole, adding jet glue, litterally smashing the box in a door frame where just some of my tricks to try to Jumpstart the breaking in process. A soft shoe won't give you much support but, it makes it easier to get on top of your box without cycling your feet. It gives you a nicer visual line. I have high arches so much my feet really over extend in my shoes. Making a nice curve across the top of my instep. Technology cant, at least not yet, provide us greater support without sacrificing flexibility. I dont dance anymore but, a good dancers need for flexibility trumps comfort.
@@Cent4man Yes! I used to get my pointe shoes wet, running them under hot water. They were softer, and my shoe didn't slip on tights or the floor. Feet pay a price for this. Margot Fonteyn apparently liked to be able to feel the dancefloor through the point of her shoe.
I had a ballet teacher tell me that I was too fat to dance. When I pursued dancing at college, the professors had a completely different outlook; instead of working AGAINST our bodies, we were encourage to work WITH our bodies.
@@ingridgustavsson3012 I'd rather look at a "fat" ballerina than an unhealthy one suffering with an eating disorder who should be getting help instead of dancing!!
Yes, it is. People don't realize that even to stand correctly, with arms in the right position, shoulders down, etc. you break a sweat. I have terrible compressed nerves in my neck, and shoulders and upper back from overbuilding these muscles. My pain management dr. Xrayed me and said I had the longest neck he had ever seen! I told him its probably from years of standing with neck straight and shou lders down. All of those delicate little moves that look so effortless and graceful, you and I know, are painful to produce. I remember watching a doc. years ago where they made a football team do ballet exercises for practice and they couldn't believe how painful it was.
Ballet has never been about people. It has always been a form of entertainment for the rich, powerful despots who ruled over its peon people, its "sub-jects." "Sub-" meaning lesser, under, & to the despots (tsars, kings, aristocrats, prime ministers, presidents, emperors, etc.) that rule every country, entertainers were expendable. I think ballet as the peons desperately warped it to grovel at the feet of the despots, should be banned/outlawed. Not dance itself, but the Bend, Fold, Spindle, & Mutilate forms of it. I took ballet lessons in my young childhood. I was slim, muscular, lithe, graceful, limber, & full of energy. But my body was/is not Robust....it could not take the beating that the teachers demanded. I came to realise that my personhood was not important, & that if I was not willing to abuse my body, then I was not the proper, self-deprecating, expendable, replaceable slave of the powerbroker aristocratic mindset. Ballet became mainstream for the enjoyment of the masses, but remained INHUMANE for the practicers of it, & the audiences show their INHUMANE disregard of the sacrifcing of the dancers. The callousness spread from the aristocrats to the general population who fantasize themselves as aristocrats for the duration of their attendance at ballet performances. I continued to dance through my life, but not with ballet. Humanity needs to become the greater spiritual entity it has all the capacity for, & teach children they do not exist to Sacrifice themselves to the callous morals of decadent aristocrats that the masses have mindlessly adopted, & then they, in turn, can teach the rest of humanity to Wake Up & Grow Up. I am hoping the same for you, dearheart.
@@berthugh2214 - "Humanity needs to become the greater spiritual entity it has all the capacity for, & teach children they do not exist to Sacrifice themselves to the callous morals of decadent aristocrats that the masses have mindlessly adopted" Yeah, good luck. Tell me how that worked out for you.
@Sean Manzano-Anderson Sean, !! you are your worst enemy,,, please stop ruining your body, your soul and your life!! don't you see!! ballet with intelligence is beauty, but what you do, and what all these institutions do , teachers, schools and so,, are ,,,,,,you tell me,,
I began dancing at five tap ballet and jazz. My teacher told my mother that she would not put me on point until I was a teenager and my bones had hardened somebody should have told all of these teachers that rule she never allowed my feet to get mutilated and I have forever respect for her she was joy of joy of dance and she was amazing
Same! I did still hurt an ankle though (chronically), and found out later that I'd been hurting my hip continuously too (permanent damage and a ticket for early hip replacement). But even the ankle was more of an oversight on the doctors' part, and the hip was just something I was born with (unknowingly) that made ballet bad for me.
👏🏻 Props to your ballet instructor. Too many girls going on pointe before the bones have ossified. I think parents push for this too trying to live vicariously through their children or push the kids too hard.
There's this surgery where you can change your eye color. It's banned in the US because people are going blind. I would love to see a video on that! People might even get their eyes removed because of the damage.
The rapper TI's wife supposedly had this surgery as well as one of their daughters but I read was that she had experienced complications and had her implants removed. There's a young Black actor that I read about a few years ago who did this surgery because he wanted a more exotic look for casting agents. Seems stupid as fuck to take such a risk.
It can be. Really. But this has taken ballet and made it so it looks like the instructors are abusive, and makes the dancers look like victims. This is not at all true. As a dancer in ballet, i can say that yes, it is very disciplined. Good dance companies are like this. But that doesnt mean that its such a horrible fucking thing and we're all victims of something.
Those are most probably a ballerina's infected feet. The bone structure of the feet and the way the thumb nails are retracted appear to be a result of the person tip toeing a lot.
@@hanillust unprepared dancer, and not properly trained, she probably started pointe before she was ready for them, also a "ballerina" "ballerino" is a term for principal dancers only
first of all, pointe shoes are not lightweight/flimsy. They are handmade, from strengthened paper mache and we don't wear the same pair for long. Second: It's true that ballet dancers get injuries, but they aren't as bad as you think. Sure, sometimes we pull our hamstrings, and foot injuries are common, but that is true for all sports/dance. last, and not least; it is our job to make everything as graceful and perfect as possible. That is the whole point of ballet.
I remember beating my brand new toe shoes on the floor and cutting criss cross lines on the toes. The instructor drew an 'x' on the toe, and if it didn't get dirty from the floor....your arch had to be greater!
We don't always used pointe shoes, we use much more time the other shoes (I don't know how they are called in english) I think he is referring to these ones, that are made from fabric or light leather
@@paulalowery7411 actually that is a pretty good way of knowing if you aren't using your pointe right or if you unevenly distribute your weight on the pointe ( which is really dangerous)
The worst part about ballet is when your toenail comes off during rehearsals, competitions and performances... The tragic memories of fellow ballerinas
My niece practices ballet and I'm surprised about the potential of the sport because she is throwing kicks that took me a while to learn. It kinda felt like that time when Goten turned super saiyan on Gohan.
It’s scary how one of those ballerinas died on my birthday and I’m a ballerina myself and am on pointe At least I’m not taking it professionally tho just until the end of high school but I hoped to end it earlier than that 😬😓
Love Only how stupid can you be if they like it they will do it I love gymnastics I’m a level nine you could easily get injured but I love it so I keep doing it
Both of my daughters danced en pointe and they frequently had blisters, broken/torn toenails, bruises, and the beginnings of bunions. One of them had to go to physical therapy for a brief period of time due to straining her leg, ankle and foot muscles. They were studying ballet at a studio that taught the Cecchetti method so they were never taught to “force the turn out” like the Russian and Balanchine methods, but it was still rigorous.
Well... Ballet has saved my hyper flexible knees. If I don't dance, my knees swell and hurt. It helps stregthen the muscles around my knees. My feet are arched, but that is not a problem. I wear peotection when on pointe shoes. It helps me in many different ways actually. I think it is very healthy.
@@cruzfam736 confidence, smile and trust yourself, you will feel pain, there is no dancer at all that never felt pain! But the pain you feel is the perfection you will be
When my parents worked in the opera house in belfast, if a ballet company was in residence, a priest was usually on standby at the side of the stage. One night one of the girls in the corps de ballet dropped dead. She was in the back row, and Th a scene continued until the curtain could be brought down. My mum never forgot that night
Same, but my teenage brain is so salty and contradictory to everything I hear, I found loopholes to most of this that takes the blame off of ballet itself
The last one is a total exaggeration ... ive been on pointe for 10 years now and it is painful and can leave you with injuries but majority of the time it's really nothing that would cause any infections or long lasting pain. My feet look fine. I know dancers of 25+ years and their feet are fine. It all depends on who you are and what kind of training u get. Don't let these things deter you from dancing. More recently companies want healthy looking dancers.
Well, to be fair, the feet take the brunt of the impacts, and stress of each move. I guess it's like athletes playing sports in that the body is subjected to years of wear and tear in a matter of one season. This heavy stress put on the body causes it to break down faster than that of a person who wasn't subjected to such constant rigorous activity and often leads to early retirements and short lived careers. In the US (where I'm from), an athlete's average career spans about 5-15 years, depending on how smart they play, how often they are used in a season, and if they've been injured to the point of not being able to finish the season, or worse, not being able to play their sport again. It seems Ballet dancers are in a similar situation. The rigorous demands put on their bodies can put a vast amount of stress on their joints, their bones, and overall health and as a result, the average ballet career is about 8-15 years, or thereabouts. Again, the length of the career depends on the dancer's abilities, how often they are used in a performance, and whether or not they've sustained injuries that would either prevent them from dancing for a short while, or for life. To put it in perspective, I once went to a kiosk at a theater during intermission of a ballet I was watching (The Nutcracker I believe), and hanging from it was a severely worn and ratty looking pair of pointe shoes. I asked the lady managing the kiosk if the wear those pointe shoes sustained was after a season of dancing, and she replied that it was only after one performance (or perhaps it was one night, my memory isn't all that clear). I was shocked at the time, but it makes sense looking back. As much as those ballerinas dance, and the level of complexity and stress each move puts on their feet, ankles, knees and hips, it's really amazing how they've managed their level of dedication to the art.
I agree about infection, but I think injury has much to do with individual anatomy as well. My sister, and I have a lot of issues with our feet. She danced for longer than I did, but mine are worse. We both had the same training, same everything really. My body is just more prone to injury in general. I also chalked it up to her being a bit more petite than I am even though she is older. I quit dancing over a decade ago, and I still deal with the repercussions at 34 years old. My feet, but also my knees have been greatly impacted. I know many dancers that have had a similar experience.
Cat your entire comment is false regarding my daughter's dance school. Her school was a extremely successful dance competition studio in Los Angeles with numerous awards (competition 1st place wins). The girls suffered severe, bruises, corns, bunions, hammer toes, cuts and bleeding feet, broken bones, torn tendons, ligaments and muscles, hip problems, severe malnutrition, BDD, no menstration. Their teachers were successful dancers in their day. Their dance careers weren't long, kind of like athletes such as football players. Yes ballet is a very short career. It ends waaaay before 40.
I feel like the research for this video must have come from watching the movie Black Swan I did dance for 11 years and have to disagree with much of what is said by the narrator about the realities of ballet and dance
@@marjoeburattodasilveira1395 Even the sexism part? So, directors use female dancers as tools of their expression, and male dancers as what? Are male dancers free to do what they want?
I cringed as I watched this. Not because of the information, but because of the technique of SOME (not all) of the dancers. Repeatedly poor technique will always result in injury. Ok, that being said... this warning is just scratching the surface-seriously. I’m not talking about the deaths; those were tragedies. Everyone who has danced seriously has faced all of these. As a student: Tore off toenail while competing. Check Performed on pointe a week after a hairline fracture. Check Concussion and sprained neck. Check Torn back muscle, separated rib. Check 3 knee surgeries and 1 1/2 years on crutches. Check These aren't counting normal pulled hamstrings, blisters, pulled muscles, joint pain, and performing sick. When I opened my studio, my priority was the health of my girls. I didn’t care what they weighed, and told them it was ok to take a break if they needed one and that it wasn’t weakness. Teachers don’t need to push dancers. We do it to ourselves. We want perfection, we push through the pain and no one has to tell us ‘do it again.’ We dance until we can’t. Here is different dance disaster story that is sadly too common that very few people know. There is a hereditary condition called Ehlers Danlos. Symptoms include unusual flexibility, joint dislocations, and fatigue. People with this tend to gravitate towards dance, gymnastics, figure skating, etc. Here’s the problem: all of those injuries create a lot of pain later in life. Most people aren’t diagnosed until after the damage has been done. By that time, it’s too late.
My brother was born with Ehlers Danlos and he is very uncoordinated and ... I don't know what word to use, like, sloppy, floppy, limp. Anyhow, the doctors said that he has a high risk of early heart issues and may also die earlier than well people. How do people who are uncoordinated wind up in something requiring such emphasis on fluidity? And I'm really confused how they manage to operate through the results of malnourishment which can cause bodily shaking, weakness and unreliable physical actions. None of those are conducive to the requirements of a ballet performer.
@@JenniferOcious79Because there are different degrees of Ehlers. If you are just on the cusp of the diagnosis, or slightly over, you could use the symptoms of the disorder to your advantage in ballet. If you're a 4, instead of a 9.....
@@f4iry431 if your teachers are good and care about you they will supervise your technique so you don't get injured. But it is a good idea to have some chech ups at the doctor to make sure everything is okay.
Video: ey yo ballet dancers are probably gonna have depression, anxiety, eating disorders in which becomes self conscious and drinks coffee to keep their weight down meaning they become frail. Me, a dancer: I doubt that Also me, the weakest dancer in my group, coffee addict, self conscious and generally dead inside: that makes much more sense now.
now being age 10, I do ballet. The depression and anxiety mainly developed last year. The depression is gone, the anxiety stays. It builds up wondering if the movements are perfect, did I screw it up, etc.
@Clarke Fine Do not be frightened. This channel fuels itself on fear. If you listen to every fearful thing that can happen to you, you would never do anything. Ballet is beautiful and as dangerous as any sport, much less than some- boxing for instance. There is nothing to be afraid of and nothing in your way. You do not have to be a professional ballerina, you could be, of course, but you could also take ballet simply because you love it. Do not be afraid to take ballet, Miss Fine.
Clarke Fine This person is probably going to a special dance school or highly competitive studio I’ve been doing dance for years at a regular Studio that doesn’t do competitions Studio that doesn’t do competitions for years and I don’t have those problems but I’m sorry for people who do
the shoes aren't light weight they are heavy, hurt feet are usually from the wrong types of pointe shoes, there are also more toe pads and tapes to help keep they pressure off and protect
I knew a dancer who put little pieces of glass in the front part of a ballet dancers shoes so when she went on point she let out a horrific yet gentle scream
I was spoiled with my first pair, they got like a fucking glove. I never got why my ballet friends' feet would bleed or turn black. I spent two hours in that fitting. My second? They spent maybe three minutes, worst shoes I have ever had. IF YOUR FEET LOOK THAT BAD you have the wrong shoes, the wrong inserts, or you are probably doing it wrong.
I had a friend who was a great dancer and she was in the musical Cats she played the white cat and a few other roles on different nights but one time she slipped on stage and busted her ankle and knee now she can’t walk without a stick and her dancing career is over but she took up her second love as a painter and paints sets and that now so she’s still working in the theatre
I learn ballet. Yes like beauty is sometimes is pain. Same with ballet. One year ago I broke my leg. Doctors told I can't go back to ballet bc the bone was all broke. But some months and days later I could dance again! I was happy that I can still dance.
The last one is a bit of an exaggeration. I've been doing dance for almost half of my life and my feet don't look like that after ANY of my classes. Many of my friends do Pointe, but they're feet are fine. And Pointe shoes are NOT lightweight, not at all. They are also toe-pads and tapes you can put in your shoes to help your feet.
Exactly, many of the tragic and over-exaggerated stories of people getting their feet messed up by pointe either comes from them going on pointe before their feet stop growing or because of a lack of basic protection.
Many more precautions for en pointe these days you rarely ever see feet problems like that. That goes with learning to customize and break in your pointe and replacing them in a timely manner.
Perhaps now a small group of people will not think of ballet as being a frivolous, easy art. Most people think it is just a bunch of girls jumping and twirling around. The truth is that ballet is much more difficult and requires an infinite amount of control over one's body. But most U.S. citizens still think that "football"- a group of large ogres crashing into one another while wearing all sorts of protective layers and equipment is the most difficult and takes the most skill. What a joke!
@@elizabethneal06 If are are saying I am ridiculous, then let me guess- you are from Texas or anywhere in the bible belt of the U.S. You hate ballet, opera, reading books or anything that requires thinking. And by the way, the rest of the world calls "soccer" football.
Oh God. I broke my foot, shattered it, at 9 years old and to this day, it hurts. How did she break herself? I mean, what was she doing, performing or practice?
@@princessromanov I used to bike race and free hand rock climb. My toes were always getting hurt but it was taking my cat to the vet and accidentally tripping over a cement parking block that fractured my big toe! I was crawling into the vet, dragging my poor cat carrier, moaning and wailing. It hurt so bad! I've broken my tailbone twice, and have 4 crushed disks in my lower back and powdered bones in my neck (I wasn't a very good rock climber). In the good old days, every doctor would give you morphine, hydrocodone, you just asked. Now there's a war on drugs and 80 year old grandmas can't get a tylenol without a drug test.... I'm glad I did most of my bone breaking in the 80s!
Listen!! I am a ballet dancer with the royal ballet and even though this video is true they make it seem a lot worse than in actually is. For example some dancers do have eating disorders but because of how much work we do we burn it off anyway. To anyone that wants to be a dancer , don’t let anything or anyone stop you. If is is your dream then go and achieve it!! I hope this helps ❤️
I was dancing swan lake; dance of the 4 cygnets, and I hear this god-awful cracking sound next to me. We finish, head off stage and it turns out that sound was the sound of the dancer next to me snapping her metatarsal bone. She kept dancing on it. I vividly remember her taking her shoe off, and her shoe was full of blood.
I took dance for six years and there's always this rule that you keep dancing no matter what. They meant costume issues, but we would be yelled at if we fell and stopped dancing during practice.
ѕlυѕнιєTнуƒσχ :3 she went on to dance, and break her metatarsal many more times, before retiring. It’s a lie that motivational line that “where you break a bone, it becomes the strongest part”. I swear she had that thing on a hinge by the time she retired.
When he said it makes the girls more self conscious, I personally disagreed. As a dancer, my self confidence is soaring through the roof since I started. I feel more comfortable in skin tight clothes and I’m not afraid to show off my body. 😊 Again, this for me personally and I think dancing has improved my self confidence.
Dancing can do a lot for a person especially when thy get real good at it not only you you lose weight quicker & helps you stay in shape but it does boost your confidence. There's different kinds & types of dancing try a variety to find one you like best or learn more than one.
The tip of the ballerina "pointe" slipper, is as hard as concrete. It can crack a skull if one was to get clonked on the head with it. Lambswool is the traditional cushion, then they came out with foam, still lambswool is preferred by ballerinas. Toes on pointe often bleed during performances.
@@cheezstix122 I'm not great at them either, i did a few quads with about 3 months of practice, but i cant work them atm cause i have a minor shoulder injury that gets agitated dueing turns
In 1974 Psychology Today (IIRC) did a study on the danger of lying in bed using members of the Ohio State football team. After 2 weeks of almost strict bed rest these 19-21 year olds lost on average 20% of their overall strength. I read that while lying around during Christmas break at college, btw. I'm 70 now and still going strong.
My heart goes out to These Great Most Beautiful performers that make their skill look so effortless knowing the pain they have to endure to look effortless. Ballet is truly an art form however the body is not meant to go through such Extremes . Our bodies can almost endure anything however it does have limits. Even though the ballerina dancers both male and female look like Angels dancing in clouds, their body goes through extreme agony so their performance can look so effortless. It's amazing what these beautiful dancers have to go through and their strength they have to actually make their performance to look elegant beautiful and effortless. It's very heartbreaking just seeing these magnificent performers go to the pain and suffering to bring joy to others. So next time anyone goes to a ballet performance remember their strength , pain, agony these magnificent performers go through, and really appreciate they're steady hard work and Art - craftsmanship of their developing their bodies to bring out such a beautiful performance of angels dancing in clouds.
I'm sure on rare occasions someone might die as a result to a injury they had prior to the show and continued on with the show carelessly and shit hit the fan which caused a irreversible injury that led to death.
Eating disorders; My daughter studied ballet for ten years before selecting cross country running instead. In ballet, the reason dancers are to be thin as possible is due to the stress put onto their joints. They use their entire body to dance, not just their toes. Extra weight can cause injury. My daughter smaller portions of normal food, never had to starve. The good side, is when she became a runner, she had the endurance to keep up with the older girls who had to build up to that point. In ninth grade, at 14 years old, tried out and was immediately put on the Varsity team. Still today, as a young woman, she has incredible strength, high self-esteem, and high achiever getting her Master’s degree by age 23. She walks tall and has grace. As a hyper child, ballet taught her self control, good body image, and fortitude. Ballet classes are good for girls, even if they never become a prima ballerina.
Dancing, along with most sports takes both mental and physical strength. I remember taking ballet at six and crying because my ankles hurt. My parents took me out right away. I kind of wish they had made me stick with it and not babied me. It took me becoming an adult to learn yoga and stick with it through the pain. It truly makes you a stronger and more confident person. Of course there are likely teachers that bully along with other dancers.
No, ballet was good for your daughter, obviously it is not good for many others. Happy for you and her, but don’t dismiss damage it does to other girls.
@@halcyondays4922 I'm guessing from that comment u r not a dancer. everyone breaks in there shoes differently depending on what shoe you have and what type of feet you have.
I didn't die but I have warped foot from going up on points while still young and growing...I have never been able to wear heels and even some flat closed in shoes and boots cause burning across the top of one foot...ouch!
actually, your body composition determines whether you can succeed. If she was breaking her toes, then her body was not cut out for that type of dance. It is something like gymnastics. Everyone is not physically cut out for that discipline either.
The only way that could possibly have happened is if she bought pointe shoes online and tried to dance without ever taking a ballet class so you’re probably lying
@@lindseyjones8048 kjsDKFJKDS im not lying but all yall saying she was doing smth wrong is probably right. she's neither smart, kind, nor,,, careful? she's the type of person that would hurt herself like that not necessarily for the attention but not not for the attention . THE REAL QUESTION IS WHY AM I STILL READING THESE REPLIES
Guys, don't quit because of this. Yes, you will get injured a couple of times, but you won't die because of a gaslight or a safety net. And if you choose not to have an eating disorder and focus on yourself, you will be fine. Take it from a dancer.
My brother was a dancer he went to college passed all his exams then died the night he went to celebrate he was 19 I often wonder if he would of been a famous dancer r.i.p. Darryl and just so you know his name means my darling
As someone who gets a cramp when I point my toes too long and loves ballet, I think the most beautiful part of ballet is the juxtaposition of the graceful, fluid, beautiful movements and these immensely strong, physically controlled, athletes called ballerinas. The strength + beauty is amazing to me.
Thank you for delineating the psychological trauma ballet dancers can suffer. I was especially grateful that you mentioned the ageism and sexism so widespread in the industry. Sadly, so many dancers and others who aspire but fail to become professional dancers fall prey to anorexia or other manifestations of body dysmorphia. Anorexia, the deadliest of all mental health disorders, is incredibly rampant among ballerinas.
When I was much younger I danced ballet for over 15 years of my life and probably would have continued if I hadn't developed quadriparesis from an unknown degenerative neurological disorder. I started ballet when I was a kid in grade school and had to stop in 1987 when wheelchair-bound but I remember the toe and arch exercises I did more than once a day to build my feet to be able to dance on pointe. I was new on pointe and the only thing that everyone forgot to say was not to start new pointe slippers before a performance. Well, that was the only mess I had experienced but I soon learned my comfortable method of breaking in my slippers right before a performance. Put it this way, I am a tall person and for the most part in our ballet company, I ended a performance with something on pointe at the end. I was usually involved in ballet, tap, and any other form of dance sometimes barefoot even. I loved to dance.
As a ballerina,I can confirm we do get hurt and pain is apart of our job it’s what we do but if you take it seriously your not gonna get as horribly hurt as these women. Please be cautious!!
@@stratsteveo106 Did you ever see Riverdance? I saw Michael Flately perform once and he was great and everything, but he was the biggest cock of the walk I've ever seen. After the simplest move he'd take a bow. Most of the audience were middle aged women with embarrassed husbands. At least, my husband was embarrassed....😏
It takes so much strength and determination though. While I have nothing against models as the fashion industry is also extremely competitive (and models always get the short end of the stick), ballet dancers are in a completely different field and level. I did ballet as a child and on and off a few years ago and it's extremely tough :/
Most of this is pretty accurate. But the injuries to feet often come due to a lack of proper training and personal care. I fractured my second metatarsal due to pronating my foot inward. Further more, I was recovering from some pain due to an Os Trigonum in the opposite foot during a six week break. I immediately jumped back into dancing after not doing anything during the break. This sudden stress on top of the pronating cause a stress injury in my foot to escalate to a stress fracture. Toenails will come off due to not letting the feet air out properly or having the wrong kind of pointe shoe for your feet. If you don’t massage the plantar fascia, you will get an injury. Achilles Tendonitis comes if you don’t land your jump correctly or stretch out your ankles properly. Most of these injuries are avoidable (sometimes genetics is just unkind). It’s all in how well you know your body and how well you take care of it. Know your limits and be kind to yourself. Jesus Christ I should really take my own advice🤣
@Society of the Lost and Broken As an ex-Joffrey ballerina, I can attest that there were many girls in the video, who shouldn't have been en pointe; they were not nearly strong enough or advanced enough. They should do a video on ballet gone wrong when a girl goes en pointe too soon.
Please don’t. Though this video does have some truth it is very dramatized and ballet can be amazing as long as you make sure to instill the right mindset.
I was a dancer and these things are true - I've arthritis from head to toe, joints from my waist down are shot, and still fighting anorexia at almost 50 years old- but I'd not change a thing if I had my life to live over again. Dance was everything to me, nothing brought me more joy, and I was always my strongest, happiest, and best self during those years. If anything, I would work even harder if given the chance to go back. It is a fire that consumes your entire being.
@@cynthiaesquibel3191 You're welcome! As a hospital employee; I was moved to tears seeing how St. John's Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri was completely destroyed by the tornado that devastated Joplin on May 22nd, 2011. I wish more than anyone else that the Joplin city council had left St. John's Medical Center in its ruined state as a memorial to the 161 lives that were lost in the Joplin tornado. Much like how the residents of a small town in northeastern Japan called Ishinomaki left Okawa Elementary School in its ruined state as a memorial to the lives of so many people who died in the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11th, 2011. When the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that generated the tsunami struck off the coast of Japan at 2:46 PM Japanese time; students at Okawa Elementary School immediately followed procedures and took shelter under their desks to be safe from falling debris. Shortly thereafter; the students and faculty members went outside to be safe from aftershocks. Little did anyone at the school know that a tsunami was headed for Ishinomaki, that Miyagi Prefecture was under a high-risk tsunami warning or that there was a tall hill behind the school where they would be safe from the tsunami. Ultimately, seventy-four students and ten teachers were swept to their deaths. During a public inquiry into the deaths of the students killed in the disaster; the only teacher who survived the disaster lowered his head in shame when an angry parent confronted him over his failure to keep their children safe. A year later, the teacher committed suicide.
That's heart breaking! That poor teacher..people can be so cruel..I'm sure the parent was in pain, but to blame another for an act of nature that caused a tragedy is despicable. Bless you for choosing the medical field..there are not too many in it any more with the heart you have. I pray for you to stay strong and healthh, and to not get burned out from it. Be sure to always take time for yourself, too.
Wow in a dancer and we don't have this health issues, the only ones we have are stress and that your feet suscks but we are okay with our bones and we are perfectly healthy
I think that everything that goes against nature is dangerous and kills you in the long run , and ballet is so against nature! Beautiful, elegant, impressive, but our feet were not designed to be used that way, we were never meant to be walking or dancing by putting all of our weight on our toes. That's the problem with Ballet in my opinion. Ballet was much healthier in its early form of Baroque dance before the dancing on pointe issue begun
Number 5 "ageism because some bale moves are structured in such a way that can only be preformed by young people" so the people complaining about this are incapable to continue to preform some of the moves yet thats somehow discrimination?
That really depends on their definition of 'young'. Is young 30, or 14? Because the implication is, only the youngest possible dancers get the best roles and anyone pushing into their late 20s is elbowed out of the industry for being 'too old', despite being perfectly fine dancers. Maybe if they're LUCKY they could be a teacher, but for the majority that 'age out', what can they do now? They've probably trained for 15-odd years exclusively in dance and theater, ruining their bodies in the process. What's left after that? I'd say that an entire industry that consumes the youth and health of dancers desperate for recognition is pretty damn despicable.
@@arourallis the health problems and that its a short lived carrier was know for decades, its practically impossible for those who go the professional rout not to know of this . Yet they still flock to it. Also the health issues is as good as any reason to push them out still in theyr prime so they can start a different carrier while retaining as much as health as possible. Ballerinas who dont want to let it go do it not because its somehow unfair but because theyr refusing to let go of theyr stardom.
Imagine if you danced for years and put your all into it just for someone to dismiss you because you aren't skinny enough or you don't fit a certain criteria. If ballet grew with women until they became professional, we wouldn't have kids and young women dying. I turned 20 and became deeply depressed because I knew I had aged out from becoming professional. I would've needed more practice just to get ahead and by that time it would've been to late. That reality is heartbreaking. Might not be like a big deal to you but for a moment our world ended.
My parents were amateur competitive figure skaters in the 1940's and 50's before turning pro in their early twenties. They were dance partners, and my Dad won Senior Men at Nationals more than once. I have a giant box of their medals. They had thick, yellow toenails, foot skin like leather, permanent calluses, and just an overall gross appearance to their feet. This came from the endless hours of practicing landing jumps, and my Dad lifting my Mom over his head. My Dad skated in an international competition once with a newly torn knee cartilage, and came in 3rd. All the skaters behaved like this.
im starting to question the type of person i must be for this type of strange stuff be in my Recommendations and for me to click on it 😂😂😂😂i need a life after kids and work lol
U must dance thou the pain my chest developed early I use to bind it down, when my madame found out in measurements being done for costumes she dropped me
My mom was a ballerina. She started dancing at 3 & opened her own dance studio at 18. She loved it alot but she experienced both eating disorders & physical damage. When she was 16 she was 5'0 & weighed 85-90 pounds. And ever since she fully quit dancing in her 20s she's had problems with binge eating. She would practice alot at home on the concrete floor in the basement and it lead to her having stress fractures but she barely used the crutches or let them heal like she was supposed to. She is 52 now & is having to have her knees replaced due to the stress of ballet & eventually working a job where she stood most of the time.
You need to have the right body for classical ballet en after good training the body can cope the demands. But it all starts with the body type. Very flexible, and a natural turn out in the hips and knees.
That’s not true u don’t have to have a ballet body to do ballet if ur called to do something u love like ballet u should be able to do it and in the end it’s all for the lord
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Do you know other examples of ballet gone wrong?
Lol noticed video was up 5min ago and this comment was up 2 weeks ago
😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😳 THOSE DAMN FEET!🔥💥
@@MrJonGx3 Lol. They must've had the video on patreon first..
@@MrJonGx3 what tha hell is wrong
youtube is drunk
Can you do a They will kill you on going to Prison?
Somebody requested Ballet topic as a joke sir and you took it serious and made something great out of it...
No I didn't
Best vids are constructed like that
Yo wait really
@@somebody9633 hehe...i see what you did there
some body 😂😂😂
As a former dancer, this is so true. I am always in pain. Feet are the worst of it all
Didn't no pole dancers feet hurt
@@mauriceboyd1910 your a bad person 🤭😢😬😂😂😂😂
@@mauriceboyd1910 well I was never on the pole. But you might be right. You're daughter should know
Im joking with you. Stop being so got damn sensitive. Do i know u, so how would i know what u did. Smh
@@charmaineberry7701 OOH snap!!!
Bruh my toenail fell off after an audition an my teacher told me to wrap it up so I didn’t get blood on my shoes and get up 👌
*Cringes in pain* Did it hurt ?
WOW that’s awful!!
Ew. Nothing against you but that sounds really gross.
Been there and done that, lol
Wowser I ain't got nothing to🤐
As a dancer for 16 years the hip , knee, back and feet pain is no joke. I’m 38 and have already had back surgery, hip replacements are definitely going to happen in the future. As far as you feet injuries, lambs wool is stuffed into the point of the pointe shoes which is the only cushioning you have, bloody cut feet and ingrown toe nails are inevitable and very common, I had a strong arch so a double shank was needed on the bottom side of my shoe which I still would break sometimes. If anyone here was ever a dancer you can appreciate everything this man said.
You didn't stretch good before doing dance, and also didn't take CBD for inflammation. You also ate inflammation causing foods (dairy, dead animals, etc) and weren't organic vegan.
This happens to everyone who isn't the above
@@godjhaka7376 Lol there’s always a know it all in the comments.
@@godjhaka7376 You have no way of knowing any of this.
@@godjhaka7376 I’m a vegetarian and have been since high school, also CBD wasn’t a thing then. Apparently you don’t understand that stretching is the main focus in ballet and pointe, so I didn’t stretch well is a ridiculous thing to say. No reputable dance academy wouldn’t even let someone enroll into pointe until reaching a intermediate level of basic ballet. Dancing through the pain was a normal expectation when I was younger. I’m 38 so in the late 90’s early 2000’s you just dealt with it.
@@godjhaka7376 Ice baths is what you do for inflammation, my sister is a Radio City Rocket and has been for the last 10 years, CBD is not the solution, ice baths is what they do in between shows . Dancers feet and all the back and hip issues they have are a real thing for them too
Huge issue in the ballet world: instructors pressuring very young students to go en pointe to bring glory to the studio. Letting a young girl under the age of 12 go en pointe is abusive and leads to deformation and issues with internal bone structure.
Sadly this happened when I did ballet. Myself and many of my fellow dancers now have deformed feet and can no longer walk properly or normally.
That is terrible! My academy would not allow girls to start pointe before the ages of 12 or 13 - but that was a fair while ago and I know the ballet business has become more ruthless...
@@megan2white I think age 12-13 is perfect! There's lots of ballet competitions now, and some judges for some reason might find a 10 year old en pointe "impressive". Sick!
I am not a natural ballet dancer but once I started my freshman year in highschool I have a dance class our teacher taught us ballet forms and yes we do that pose and it hurts but like I told you I was never trained at that age I never learnt ballet before so I wonder how bad those injuries must be im so sorry to hear that
This is not as common as you make it sound but it is a terrible problem! That instructor should be banned from teaching. Why didn’t you change schools or quit or tell your teacher that you’re not ready yet?
Jesus and I thought ballet was harmless an innocent
I did ballet for a good 10yrs & I used to have to soak my feet EVERY NIGHT bc they'd get 2the point where they'd be bloody....
Tell me if I'm wrong, but it seems you guys use your feet in a similar position as the higher than "stiletto heels" put your foot in. That would be like walking 10 miles everyday in Stilletos!!! 😢😭😧😩😰
Ouch!
Same
WTF why would you keep doing ballet, you must be determined
suffer for your art
They have now invented the 3D-printed ballet shoe to reduce pain and injuries in ballerinas. Some inventors are also experimenting with alternate materials to make ballet shoes more durable, stronger and safer. About time modern technology revolutionised the ballet shoe to make ballet safer for ballerinas.
Goodiesfanful Bill Nigh the Science Guy patented a new shoe but the tradition of the shoe industry was slow to adopt it if at all
As if they'll even want to use that
The problem is that the technically advanced shoes are stiffer. Most dancers want to, and need to be able to manipulate their feet in their shoes. I alway preferred a softer shoe and even then, there was a process of beating the box and other prep rituals to prepare them for 8 to 16 hours of dance.
Cutting out half the insole, adding jet glue, litterally smashing the box in a door frame where just some of my tricks to try to Jumpstart the breaking in process. A soft shoe won't give you much support but, it makes it easier to get on top of your box without cycling your feet. It gives you a nicer visual line. I have high arches so much my feet really over extend in my shoes. Making a nice curve across the top of my instep. Technology cant, at least not yet, provide us greater support without sacrificing flexibility. I dont dance anymore but, a good dancers need for flexibility trumps comfort.
@Met3lAngel Perhaps they tried earlier but didn't make real progress until now.
@@Cent4man Yes! I used to get my pointe shoes wet, running them under hot water. They were softer, and my shoe didn't slip on tights or the floor. Feet pay a price for this. Margot Fonteyn apparently liked to be able to feel the dancefloor through the point of her shoe.
I had a ballet teacher tell me that I was too fat to dance.
When I pursued dancing at college, the professors had a completely different outlook; instead of working AGAINST our bodies, we were encourage to work WITH our bodies.
You're never too big to dance ❤
Teachers can be mean.
I think you should be realistic about what you can do and what level you can compete with others. A fat ballerina is not pleasant to look at. 😉
@@ingridgustavsson3012 wait what do u mean a fat ballerina is not pleasant to look at? Or am i reading this the wrong way
@@ingridgustavsson3012 I'd rather look at a "fat" ballerina than an unhealthy one suffering with an eating disorder who should be getting help instead of dancing!!
Number fifteen foot fungus
Wrong channel bro
Bitch I know you talked in GTA 3 DONT FUCKIN BULLSHIT ME CLAUDE, IMMA GET TREVOR PHILLIPS MIDEVIL STYLE ON YA
NextLevelGamer day what
ohhhh for fuck sake! don't you think the foot lettuce thing is getting kinda old??
Claude number 15: Burger King foot lettuce
Ask me for permission next time you use a photo of my feet for your thumbnail
Luke 🤣
Dude that’s some dedication to your craft, do you have an Instagram I can follow? I’m not a dancer but I really like seeing people do next level stuff
I have ring worm but it's not as classy....
you poor bastard...
oh
I currently dance and omg, even when ballet goes right it’s painful
I agree Aliens Exist
Yes, it is. People don't realize that even to stand correctly, with arms in the right position, shoulders down, etc. you break a sweat. I have terrible compressed nerves in my neck, and shoulders and upper back from overbuilding these muscles. My pain management dr. Xrayed me and said I had the longest neck he had ever seen! I told him its probably from years of standing with neck straight and shou lders down. All of those delicate little moves that look so effortless and graceful, you and I know, are painful to produce. I remember watching a doc. years ago where they made a football team do ballet exercises for practice and they couldn't believe how painful it was.
Ballet has never been about people. It has always been a form of entertainment for the rich, powerful despots who ruled over its peon people, its "sub-jects." "Sub-" meaning lesser, under, & to the despots (tsars, kings, aristocrats, prime ministers, presidents, emperors, etc.) that rule every country, entertainers were expendable.
I think ballet as the peons desperately warped it to grovel at the feet of the despots, should be banned/outlawed. Not dance itself, but the Bend, Fold, Spindle, & Mutilate forms of it.
I took ballet lessons in my young childhood. I was slim, muscular, lithe, graceful, limber, & full of energy. But my body was/is not Robust....it could not take the beating that the teachers demanded. I came to realise that my personhood was not important, & that if I was not willing to abuse my body, then I was not the proper, self-deprecating, expendable, replaceable slave of the powerbroker aristocratic mindset.
Ballet became mainstream for the enjoyment of the masses, but remained INHUMANE for the practicers of it, & the audiences show their INHUMANE disregard of the sacrifcing of the dancers. The callousness spread from the aristocrats to the general population who fantasize themselves as aristocrats for the duration of their attendance at ballet performances.
I continued to dance through my life, but not with ballet.
Humanity needs to become the greater spiritual entity it has all the capacity for, & teach children they do not exist to Sacrifice themselves to the callous morals of decadent aristocrats that the masses have mindlessly adopted, & then they, in turn, can teach the rest of humanity to Wake Up & Grow Up. I am hoping the same for you, dearheart.
@@berthugh2214 - "Humanity needs to become the greater spiritual entity it has all the capacity for, & teach children they do not exist to Sacrifice themselves to the callous morals of decadent aristocrats that the masses have mindlessly adopted"
Yeah, good luck. Tell me how that worked out for you.
@Sean Manzano-Anderson Sean, !! you are your worst enemy,,, please stop ruining your body, your soul and your life!! don't you see!! ballet with intelligence is beauty, but what you do, and what all these institutions do , teachers, schools and so,, are ,,,,,,you tell me,,
I thought this was going to be about how there feet gets damaged thank you to everyone who has liked my comment
It’s long as you take care of your feet properly, nothing should happen
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꧁Lily Pie Diy꧂ it’s kind is unavoidable tho
Anastasia Ishakova not really. I am a ballet dancer, and I take good care of my feet and they are not damaging whatsoever
*damaged
*Here's another episode of..*
Why the hell is this in my recommendations
I like ur name
Ur name is pretty
Yeah I was just looking In my recommendations then all of a sudden--why the hell are there deformed feet on my screen???
Ya same ;-;
True
The Feet in the thumbnail did 3 tours in Afghanistan
Nothing a little mole skin won't fix. 😛
They deserve the purple foot.
christine paris 😂😂
Lmaooooooooo 😆 😂
This thread tho 🤣🤣🤣🤣
0:40 that is the worst fouettés ive ever seen
I dont even follow ballet and I know that it sucks
Her feet were never pointed, there was no control, they were sloppy, and her arms weren’t in the correct position.
Well she’s on fire so....
Her elbows were sagging....I remember my dance teacher hitting our elbows with a ruler and yelling, "Arms arms ARMS!" to Chopin's Nocturne 3.
Kiki The Chiwah Divah exactly lmao, I don’t understand how any dance teacher could be certified and still teach a student to do such sloppy fouettés.
I began dancing at five tap ballet and jazz. My teacher told my mother that she would not put me on point until I was a teenager and my bones had hardened somebody should have told all of these teachers that rule she never allowed my feet to get mutilated and I have forever respect for her she was joy of joy of dance and she was amazing
Same! I did still hurt an ankle though (chronically), and found out later that I'd been hurting my hip continuously too (permanent damage and a ticket for early hip replacement).
But even the ankle was more of an oversight on the doctors' part, and the hip was just something I was born with (unknowingly) that made ballet bad for me.
My daughter's dance teacher had same rule. It didn't hurt that she was a former Rockett.
👏🏻 Props to your ballet instructor. Too many girls going on pointe before the bones have ossified. I think parents push for this too trying to live vicariously through their children or push the kids too hard.
That thumbnail makes me brain hurt
curb your bullshit same dude
curb your bullshit i dont wanna be the 666th like
So is your profile pic. 😂
SAME
curb your bullshit lol
There's this surgery where you can change your eye color. It's banned in the US because people are going blind. I would love to see a video on that! People might even get their eyes removed because of the damage.
Holy smoke. Can is humans get any more crazier?
The rapper TI's wife supposedly had this surgery as well as one of their daughters but I read was that she had experienced complications and had her implants removed. There's a young Black actor that I read about a few years ago who did this surgery because he wanted a more exotic look for casting agents.
Seems stupid as fuck to take such a risk.
@@scheherazadenoir5950 Good grief! Just wear colored contacts!
sociallyawkward steve yeahhhhh
I see you're living up to your name....
And here i though dancing was suppose to be fun and stress free
It can be. Really. But this has taken ballet and made it so it looks like the instructors are abusive, and makes the dancers look like victims. This is not at all true. As a dancer in ballet, i can say that yes, it is very disciplined. Good dance companies are like this. But that doesnt mean that its such a horrible fucking thing and we're all victims of something.
Some kind of mk ultra programming...
Sometimes can be
Hahaha Hahaha NO
It he is lying I dance and do ballet 20 hours a week so my hurt but are not damaged like in the pics
Everyone sees and admires the grace and pure white of a swan, yet few see the ugly dark feet pushing hard under the water.
Dang... Good analogy.
Exactly.... all i see is disfigurement, pain, and more pain..
Under those feathers, they're also the most vicious of the bird family that includes duck, geese and swans.
Very well said!
Oo nice comparison
Bro what is that thumbnail God damn
It’s my Feet
Those are most probably a ballerina's infected feet. The bone structure of the feet and the way the thumb nails are retracted appear to be a result of the person tip toeing a lot.
@@hanillust unprepared dancer, and not properly trained, she probably started pointe before she was ready for them, also a "ballerina" "ballerino" is a term for principal dancers only
@@oscarkorlowsky4938
Yeah, true. Truly "ballet gone wrong".
Also ?? I didn't write "ballerino".
Hahahahahaha I just said I'm going to comments first and your comment got my ribs hurtin 😂🤣😂🤣💀
first of all,
pointe shoes are not lightweight/flimsy. They are handmade, from strengthened paper mache and we don't wear the same pair for long.
Second:
It's true that ballet dancers get injuries, but they aren't as bad as you think. Sure, sometimes we pull our hamstrings, and foot injuries are common, but that is true for all sports/dance.
last, and not least;
it is our job to make everything as graceful and perfect as possible. That is the whole point of ballet.
I see what you did, there.
I remember beating my brand new toe shoes on the floor and cutting criss cross lines on the toes. The instructor drew an 'x' on the toe, and if it didn't get dirty from the floor....your arch had to be greater!
We don't always used pointe shoes, we use much more time the other shoes (I don't know how they are called in english) I think he is referring to these ones, that are made from fabric or light leather
@@paulalowery7411 actually that is a pretty good way of knowing if you aren't using your pointe right or if you unevenly distribute your weight on the pointe ( which is really dangerous)
Aren't some made of wood
00:40 with fouettés like that, no wonder it went wrong.
The shade
YES SO RIGHT
Ikr! Those were disgusting
8:16 aghhhh olmg tgehn turn otu and ribbons ahgfhfh
ya ya ya ya LOL IKR 🤣
The worst part about ballet is when your toenail comes off during rehearsals, competitions and performances...
The tragic memories of fellow ballerinas
TOENAILS??EWW...IM LIKE FEEL LIKE MY TOENAILS ARE LIKE EEHNQJE but i STAND YALL BALLERINAS😳💖💖💖 YALL ARE BRAVE
I tip toe a lot but not on my toes
Like you can clip them ugh
My niece practices ballet and I'm surprised about the potential of the sport because she is throwing kicks that took me a while to learn. It kinda felt like that time when Goten turned super saiyan on Gohan.
And as always........ Shake it off!
It’s scary how one of those ballerinas died on my birthday and I’m a ballerina myself and am on pointe
At least I’m not taking it professionally tho just until the end of high school but I hoped to end it earlier than that 😬😓
I hope nobody is forcing you or pressuring you to continue; you should do what makes you happy, but you also deserve to be healthy and comfortable :(
@Love Only Then why haven't you quit?
Love Only cmon you should quit🙄
Love Only how stupid can you be if they like it they will do it I love gymnastics I’m a level nine you could easily get injured but I love it so I keep doing it
R/engrish
"When twerking goes wrong"
Edit: lol wow thanks for the likes guys 😄
Mynson Anderson your butt gets to big
Twerking, the ballet of the 21st century.
Popping back out-
This one guy broke his back twerking
Number one, Miley Cyrus.
My girlfriend is a ballet dancer and now I’m worried about her
Edit: She tore a ligament so she has to get surgery 😢
Justin Y u should show her this then
She will be fine they are exaggerating this a lot😂 I’m a ballet dancer my self it’s not this bad at all😂
don't be... many of these examples were from ages that have passed long ago... And the others are exaggerated...
i learnt ballet and my teachers' feets arent this bad actually. p/s they graduated from RAD.
Koolergirl06 ok
me: it can't be THAT bad
*picture of mangled foot*
Me: ight imma head out
@IZZAH AZLAN thanks captain obvious
Travis Wilkins lol
Both of my daughters danced en pointe and they frequently had blisters, broken/torn toenails, bruises, and the beginnings of bunions. One of them had to go to physical therapy for a brief period of time due to straining her leg, ankle and foot muscles. They were studying ballet at a studio that taught the Cecchetti method so they were never taught to “force the turn out” like the Russian and Balanchine methods, but it was still rigorous.
@@collectorofcats294 wow, that's harsh. i hope your daughter is better now.
😅😂
Ballet is beautiful but there's something creepy about it, at least to me anyway..
Same
Same
Creepy?
Maybe its the music in this video
Well... Ballet has saved my hyper flexible knees. If I don't dance, my knees swell and hurt. It helps stregthen the muscles around my knees. My feet are arched, but that is not a problem. I wear peotection when on pointe shoes. It helps me in many different ways actually. I think it is very healthy.
What protection do you use because i'm am going to start dancing and that would be very helpful
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@@cruzfam736 confidence, smile and trust yourself, you will feel pain, there is no dancer at all that never felt pain! But the pain you feel is the perfection you will be
Some of the girls on my academy use ballet to correct their back problems ( scoliosis and all that), it can be very helpful but also dangerous.
When my parents worked in the opera house in belfast, if a ballet company was in residence, a priest was usually on standby at the side of the stage. One night one of the girls in the corps de ballet dropped dead. She was in the back row, and Th a scene continued until the curtain could be brought down. My mum never forgot that night
wow
What!?
Omg!
Holy shit
Me: *knowing that this video is gonna make me want to quit ballet*
*_Still watches_*
Same 😂
Same, but my teenage brain is so salty and contradictory to everything I hear, I found loopholes to most of this that takes the blame off of ballet itself
Εύρηκα
Το Ευρηκα sane I really don’t want my skirt to catch on fire 😂 🔥
@@alexle4917 me too
The last one is a total exaggeration ... ive been on pointe for 10 years now and it is painful and can leave you with injuries but majority of the time it's really nothing that would cause any infections or long lasting pain. My feet look fine. I know dancers of 25+ years and their feet are fine. It all depends on who you are and what kind of training u get. Don't let these things deter you from dancing. More recently companies want healthy looking dancers.
Also depends on what type of injuries you get. But yes, because there's really nothing sharp to cut your toes open on its rarely gonna get infected
Well, to be fair, the feet take the brunt of the impacts, and stress of each move. I guess it's like athletes playing sports in that the body is subjected to years of wear and tear in a matter of one season. This heavy stress put on the body causes it to break down faster than that of a person who wasn't subjected to such constant rigorous activity and often leads to early retirements and short lived careers. In the US (where I'm from), an athlete's average career spans about 5-15 years, depending on how smart they play, how often they are used in a season, and if they've been injured to the point of not being able to finish the season, or worse, not being able to play their sport again. It seems Ballet dancers are in a similar situation. The rigorous demands put on their bodies can put a vast amount of stress on their joints, their bones, and overall health and as a result, the average ballet career is about 8-15 years, or thereabouts. Again, the length of the career depends on the dancer's abilities, how often they are used in a performance, and whether or not they've sustained injuries that would either prevent them from dancing for a short while, or for life.
To put it in perspective, I once went to a kiosk at a theater during intermission of a ballet I was watching (The Nutcracker I believe), and hanging from it was a severely worn and ratty looking pair of pointe shoes. I asked the lady managing the kiosk if the wear those pointe shoes sustained was after a season of dancing, and she replied that it was only after one performance (or perhaps it was one night, my memory isn't all that clear). I was shocked at the time, but it makes sense looking back. As much as those ballerinas dance, and the level of complexity and stress each move puts on their feet, ankles, knees and hips, it's really amazing how they've managed their level of dedication to the art.
I agree about infection, but I think injury has much to do with individual anatomy as well. My sister, and I have a lot of issues with our feet. She danced for longer than I did, but mine are worse. We both had the same training, same everything really. My body is just more prone to injury in general. I also chalked it up to her being a bit more petite than I am even though she is older. I quit dancing over a decade ago, and I still deal with the repercussions at 34 years old. My feet, but also my knees have been greatly impacted. I know many dancers that have had a similar experience.
Cat your entire comment is false regarding my daughter's dance school. Her school was a extremely successful dance competition studio in Los Angeles with numerous awards (competition 1st place wins). The girls suffered severe, bruises, corns, bunions, hammer toes, cuts and bleeding feet, broken bones, torn tendons, ligaments and muscles, hip problems, severe malnutrition, BDD, no menstration. Their teachers were successful dancers in their day. Their dance careers weren't long, kind of like athletes such as football players. Yes ballet is a very short career. It ends waaaay before 40.
Its either on point or "en pointe" you cant have them both you selfish cow
I feel like the research for this video must have come from watching the movie Black Swan
I did dance for 11 years and have to disagree with much of what is said by the narrator about the realities of ballet and dance
Did you dance as a professional?
I am a Former professional ballet Dancer. So, most of this vídeo has true information. Sorry for that.
@@marjoeburattodasilveira1395 Even the sexism part? So, directors use female dancers as tools of their expression, and male dancers as what? Are male dancers free to do what they want?
RIGHT???? Dear lord! This is ridiculous.
I cringed as I watched this. Not because of the information, but because of the technique of SOME (not all) of the dancers. Repeatedly poor technique will always result in injury. Ok, that being said... this warning is just scratching the surface-seriously. I’m not talking about the deaths; those were tragedies. Everyone who has danced seriously has faced all of these.
As a student:
Tore off toenail while competing. Check
Performed on pointe a week after a hairline fracture. Check
Concussion and sprained neck. Check
Torn back muscle, separated rib. Check
3 knee surgeries and 1 1/2 years on crutches. Check
These aren't counting normal pulled hamstrings, blisters, pulled muscles, joint pain, and performing sick.
When I opened my studio, my priority was the health of my girls. I didn’t care what they weighed, and told them it was ok to take a break if they needed one and that it wasn’t weakness.
Teachers don’t need to push dancers. We do it to ourselves. We want perfection, we push through the pain and no one has to tell us ‘do it again.’ We dance until we can’t.
Here is different dance disaster story that is sadly too common that very few people know. There is a hereditary condition called Ehlers Danlos. Symptoms include unusual flexibility, joint dislocations, and fatigue. People with this tend to gravitate towards dance, gymnastics, figure skating, etc. Here’s the problem: all of those injuries create a lot of pain later in life. Most people aren’t diagnosed until after the damage has been done. By that time, it’s too late.
Honestly, I dance too and this makes me worried
My brother was born with Ehlers Danlos and he is very uncoordinated and ... I don't know what word to use, like, sloppy, floppy, limp. Anyhow, the doctors said that he has a high risk of early heart issues and may also die earlier than well people. How do people who are uncoordinated wind up in something requiring such emphasis on fluidity? And I'm really confused how they manage to operate through the results of malnourishment which can cause bodily shaking, weakness and unreliable physical actions. None of those are conducive to the requirements of a ballet performer.
@@JenniferOcious79Because there are different degrees of Ehlers. If you are just on the cusp of the diagnosis, or slightly over, you could use the symptoms of the disorder to your advantage in ballet. If you're a 4, instead of a 9.....
True, I have problems in my feet because of my poor technique on pointe, I wasn't ready to use them but my teacher didn't care .
@@f4iry431 if your teachers are good and care about you they will supervise your technique so you don't get injured. But it is a good idea to have some chech ups at the doctor to make sure everything is okay.
Video: ey yo ballet dancers are probably gonna have depression, anxiety, eating disorders in which becomes self conscious and drinks coffee to keep their weight down meaning they become frail.
Me, a dancer: I doubt that
Also me, the weakest dancer in my group, coffee addict, self conscious and generally dead inside: that makes much more sense now.
8:12 omg the ribbons im CRYING
Please use clips of real ballet dsncers dnsjsks
IKR
Oh they were ribbons? I thought they was toilet paper wrapped around!
Eeeeewwwww
We would have been sent out. Ribbon ends werent to be exposed but tied at the back and tucked in.
LMAO
now being age 10, I do ballet. The depression and anxiety mainly developed last year. The depression is gone, the anxiety stays. It builds up wondering if the movements are perfect, did I screw it up, etc.
What are you doing here?
I’m 10 and I’m scared to do ballet now lol. I was thinking about it.
@Megumi 'Gumi' Megpoid Her English and speech is vastly better than yours.
@Clarke Fine Do not be frightened. This channel fuels itself on fear. If you listen to every fearful thing that can happen to you, you would never do anything. Ballet is beautiful and as dangerous as any sport, much less than some- boxing for instance. There is nothing to be afraid of and nothing in your way. You do not have to be a professional ballerina, you could be, of course, but you could also take ballet simply because you love it. Do not be afraid to take ballet, Miss Fine.
Clarke Fine
This person is probably going to a special dance school or highly competitive studio I’ve been doing dance for years at a regular Studio that doesn’t do competitions Studio that doesn’t do competitions for years and I don’t have those problems but I’m sorry for people who do
the shoes aren't light weight they are heavy, hurt feet are usually from the wrong types of pointe shoes, there are also more toe pads and tapes to help keep they pressure off and protect
michaela s and dance who started the en pointe for ballet anyway.
Thanks you... If your pointe shoes are destroying your feet then you need new pointe shoes
I knew a dancer who put little pieces of glass in the front part of a ballet dancers shoes so when she went on point she let out a horrific yet gentle scream
@@whitealliance9540 that is the most stereotypical dark ballet trope lmao
I was spoiled with my first pair, they got like a fucking glove. I never got why my ballet friends' feet would bleed or turn black. I spent two hours in that fitting. My second? They spent maybe three minutes, worst shoes I have ever had. IF YOUR FEET LOOK THAT BAD you have the wrong shoes, the wrong inserts, or you are probably doing it wrong.
I had a friend who was a great dancer and she was in the musical Cats she played the white cat and a few other roles on different nights but one time she slipped on stage and busted her ankle and knee now she can’t walk without a stick and her dancing career is over but she took up her second love as a painter and paints sets and that now so she’s still working in the theatre
I’m so thankful I didn’t end up staying in that dance school
So am I, refused to send my children to ballet school! Torture!
My aunt did ballet but she stopped at 16. She was more of the short round type ( not fat at all) but she did not fit in with what was wanted.
EMILIE GUILLON : Damn, this is cruel! Just my opinion, though ✌🏼
Dancing won’t really get you anywhere
@@catherinevaz6139 so what maybe the dance company wanted slim dancers. Nothing cruel about that YOU DONT NEED TO PARTICIPATE IN EVERYTHING
Thought it said bullets go wrong and I thought... well DUH!
Sounds like a mistake I would make 😂🤣
Same! 😂😂
He should make a When Things Go Right channel too!
@Ciayrra Parrish
That's actually a great idea.
This is the best comment ever XD
Do a topic when martial arts go wrong and wrestling as well.
They did some videos of those earlier.
@Typical Toni I'm a former muay thai fighter and muay thai is extremely safe too.
Typical Toni dude same! I love sparring.
Thumbnail looks like my feet after class. Honestly it's every dancer's feet after class.
Ik
Peggy! not for me;-;
Peggy! Nope
Not at all. My feet look normal. I also take precautions and protect my feet.
@@ashledashnaw5279 good for you?
And that my friends is why I am a contemporary dancer
And this is why I just lay in bed and watch youtube.
Raven Roth yeah same but I do hip hop instead of tap
I learn ballet. Yes like beauty is sometimes is pain. Same with ballet. One year ago I broke my leg. Doctors told I can't go back to ballet bc the bone was all broke. But some months and days later I could dance again! I was happy that I can still dance.
I wish you the best, because ballet is probably one of the hardest things...
Good thing you healed
@@catherinevaz6139 Thank you
@@angrypanda133 you goin be an old lady with a walker if you keep it up.
Im happy 4 u i take ballet too
The last one is a bit of an exaggeration. I've been doing dance for almost half of my life and my feet don't look like that after ANY of my classes. Many of my friends do Pointe, but they're feet are fine. And Pointe shoes are NOT lightweight, not at all.
They are also toe-pads and tapes you can put in your shoes to help your feet.
Yeah now there are spacers for you toes and gels. That helps a lot.
Exactly, many of the tragic and over-exaggerated stories of people getting their feet messed up by pointe either comes from them going on pointe before their feet stop growing or because of a lack of basic protection.
THANK YOU!! Ballet is no doubt painful and hard but they’re taking this wayyy to far
Many more precautions for en pointe these days you rarely ever see feet problems like that. That goes with learning to customize and break in your pointe and replacing them in a timely manner.
It is an exaggeration because it doesn’t happen to everyone but it did happen to my friends sister x
Me when I don’t get in to the Dance Company: watches this
Seriously. Is the person narrating this video Idris Elba?
KAY DENÉ amazing!
Don't know! I hope so😉! I luv u, Idris Elba 😘!
Sounds nothing like him! Lol
No
Sounds nothing like idris alba
Perhaps now a small group of people will not think of ballet as being a frivolous, easy art. Most people think it is just a bunch of girls jumping and twirling around. The truth is that ballet is much more difficult and requires an infinite amount of control over one's body. But most U.S. citizens still think that "football"- a group of large ogres crashing into one another while wearing all sorts of protective layers and equipment is the most difficult and takes the most skill. What a joke!
Cosette K What an absurd generalization
@@elizabethneal06 If are are saying I am ridiculous, then let me guess- you are from Texas or anywhere in the bible belt of the U.S. You hate ballet, opera, reading books or anything that requires thinking. And by the way, the rest of the world calls "soccer" football.
Liza Neal it’s not absurd it’s the truth
There both drastically different. And we're talking about men here, they love seeing fights, how do you think boxing started!
Cosette K There’s football players who hit with the force of a small vehicle. If I go take on thanos weak ass I’m taking on of them with me.
I know some chick had snapped her legs because of a jump she did and the shoes made her fall
Oh God. I broke my foot, shattered it, at 9 years old and to this day, it hurts. How did she break herself?
I mean, what was she doing, performing or practice?
@@christineparis5607 both
@@charmaineberry7701
Ouch! I am so sorry. When I was younger, my foot wasn't that big a deal, but with age, arthritis just moves in sometimes.
Most of my toes have been broken a few times
@@princessromanov
I used to bike race and free hand rock climb. My toes were always getting hurt but it was taking my cat to the vet and accidentally tripping over a cement parking block that fractured my big toe! I was crawling into the vet, dragging my poor cat carrier, moaning and wailing. It hurt so bad! I've broken my tailbone twice, and have 4 crushed disks in my lower back and powdered bones in my neck (I wasn't a very good rock climber). In the good old days, every doctor would give you morphine, hydrocodone, you just asked. Now there's a war on drugs and 80 year old grandmas can't get a tylenol without a drug test....
I'm glad I did most of my bone breaking in the 80s!
Finally someone that acknowledges ballet as a sport!
Listen!! I am a ballet dancer with the royal ballet and even though this video is true they make it seem a lot worse than in actually is. For example some dancers do have eating disorders but because of how much work we do we burn it off anyway. To anyone that wants to be a dancer , don’t let anything or anyone stop you. If is is your dream then go and achieve it!! I hope this helps ❤️
Agreee!!
I was dancing swan lake; dance of the 4 cygnets, and I hear this god-awful cracking sound next to me.
We finish, head off stage and it turns out that sound was the sound of the dancer next to me snapping her metatarsal bone. She kept dancing on it.
I vividly remember her taking her shoe off, and her shoe was full of blood.
Well that’s horrifying...
I took dance for six years and there's always this rule that you keep dancing no matter what. They meant costume issues, but we would be yelled at if we fell and stopped dancing during practice.
ѕlυѕнιєTнуƒσχ :3 she went on to dance, and break her metatarsal many more times, before retiring.
It’s a lie that motivational line that “where you break a bone, it becomes the strongest part”. I swear she had that thing on a hinge by the time she retired.
OH MY GOD🤮
OH NO that’s horrible!
When he said it makes the girls more self conscious, I personally disagreed. As a dancer, my self confidence is soaring through the roof since I started. I feel more comfortable in skin tight clothes and I’m not afraid to show off my body. 😊 Again, this for me personally and I think dancing has improved my self confidence.
damn whats that like
Dancing can do a lot for a person especially when thy get real good at it not only you you lose weight quicker & helps you stay in shape but it does boost your confidence. There's different kinds & types of dancing try a variety to find one you like best or learn more than one.
That's YOU but not the othees
Exhibitionist. Not a bad thing, just saying.
The tip of the ballerina "pointe" slipper, is as hard as concrete. It can crack a skull if one was to get clonked on the head with it. Lambswool is the traditional cushion, then they came out with foam, still lambswool is preferred by ballerinas. Toes on pointe often bleed during performances.
Yeah I was puzzled when he said it hurts because it offers no protection, when I think everybody knows it's because of the hard as hell tip.
Wow . who'd want to be a ballet dancer..I'll stick to my moonwalk on Saturday nights..
Taylor Tatham me...i am a ballet dancer:)
Me, cause pirouettes are fun and ballet is cool
owo so quirky
@@cheezstix122 I'm not great at them either, i did a few quads with about 3 months of practice, but i cant work them atm cause i have a minor shoulder injury that gets agitated dueing turns
Being ballerina is no different then being a high fashion model when it comes down to eating disorder
Actually, most ballerinas are encouraged to eat in order to keep their strength up. The idea that ballerinas are anorexic is a myth.
Me: and that's why I just lie in bed all the time instead.
TWKY: next up, when lying in bed goes wrong.
Me: oh well still not moving.
Ha ha ha
I'm with you!
In 1974 Psychology Today (IIRC) did a study on the danger of lying in bed using members of the Ohio State football team. After 2 weeks of almost strict bed rest these 19-21 year olds lost on average 20% of their overall strength. I read that while lying around during Christmas break at college, btw. I'm 70 now and still going strong.
My heart goes out to These Great Most Beautiful performers that make their skill look so effortless knowing the pain they have to endure to look effortless.
Ballet is truly an art form however the body is not meant to go through such Extremes .
Our bodies can almost endure anything however it does have limits.
Even though the ballerina dancers both male and female look like Angels dancing in clouds, their body goes through extreme agony so their performance can look so effortless.
It's amazing what these beautiful dancers have to go through and their strength they have to actually make their performance to look elegant beautiful and effortless.
It's very heartbreaking just seeing these magnificent performers go to the pain and suffering to bring joy to others.
So next time anyone goes to a ballet performance remember their strength , pain, agony these magnificent performers go through, and really appreciate they're steady hard work and Art - craftsmanship of their developing their bodies to bring out such a beautiful performance of angels dancing in clouds.
yall act like ballet dancers are dying every single show
Ikrr
I'm sure on rare occasions someone might die as a result to a injury they had prior to the show and continued on with the show carelessly and shit hit the fan which caused a irreversible injury that led to death.
@@ashledashnaw5279 yup for sure
@Frank Castle no they are not lmao
@Frank Castle hahaha
Eating disorders; My daughter studied ballet for ten years before selecting cross country running instead. In ballet, the reason dancers are to be thin as possible is due to the stress put onto their joints. They use their entire body to dance, not just their toes. Extra weight can cause injury. My daughter smaller portions of normal food, never had to starve. The good side, is when she became a runner, she had the endurance to keep up with the older girls who had to build up to that point. In ninth grade, at 14 years old, tried out and was immediately put on the Varsity team. Still today, as a young woman, she has incredible strength, high self-esteem, and high achiever getting her Master’s degree by age 23. She walks tall and has grace. As a hyper child, ballet taught her self control, good body image, and fortitude. Ballet classes are good for girls, even if they never become a prima ballerina.
Dancing, along with most sports takes both mental and physical strength. I remember taking ballet at six and crying because my ankles hurt. My parents took me out right away. I kind of wish they had made me stick with it and not babied me. It took me becoming an adult to learn yoga and stick with it through the pain. It truly makes you a stronger and more confident person. Of course there are likely teachers that bully along with other dancers.
No, ballet was good for your daughter, obviously it is not good for many others. Happy for you and her, but don’t dismiss damage it does to other girls.
What are you talking about with the pointe shoes! They are so hard I can break stuff with them
I even heard you have to break in the shoes with a hammer.
@@halcyondays4922 I'm guessing from that comment u r not a dancer. everyone breaks in there shoes differently depending on what shoe you have and what type of feet you have.
@@halcyondays4922 nah with a chainsaw
Peppa pig editzzzz Nope, I am not. I heard about it from a book I was reading on the fly. 😅
Can confirm, did ballet for 16 years and was lucky enough to get kicked in the head once by someone wearing pointe shoes.
This is why performer unions exist today. Thank you for your sacrifice!
I didn't die but I have warped foot from going up on points while still young and growing...I have never been able to wear heels and even some flat closed in shoes and boots cause burning across the top of one foot...ouch!
That is your teachers and parents fault for putting you on pointe too young. Not the pointe itself
"I didnt die"
lmao clearly you didnt die ... If you did you wouldnt be able to comment anything
It's funny to me that most of the injuries can be avoided when proper technique is involved💀
Not all of them no matter what technique you use.
Lmao 😂
I danced for many years and yes when proper technique is involved most of these could have been prevented
@I am me Why are you so offended? I've gotten injuries from bad technique before, hasn't everyone? I was just saying it's funny is all wtf💀
@@mrs.Italy.D yup
my friend broke the majority of her toes dancing point for just a year she quit lmao she does hip hop mostly now
bro did she wear any protection on her feet? you aren't supposed to just go in pointe shoes with nothing else on!?
actually, your body composition determines whether you can succeed. If she was breaking her toes, then her body was not cut out for that type of dance. It is something like gymnastics. Everyone is not physically cut out for that discipline either.
Really? Usually, if you take care of your toes and shoes correctly you would be fine.
The only way that could possibly have happened is if she bought pointe shoes online and tried to dance without ever taking a ballet class so you’re probably lying
@@lindseyjones8048 kjsDKFJKDS im not lying but all yall saying she was doing smth wrong is probably right. she's neither smart, kind, nor,,, careful? she's the type of person that would hurt herself like that not necessarily for the attention but not not for the attention . THE REAL QUESTION IS WHY AM I STILL READING THESE REPLIES
Me before: man I wanna do some ballet
Me after: *AHHH MABY NOT....*
Giggles giggles lol 😝 where’d you get your profile pic from ??
I thought ballet was fun, too, I thought it was about tutus and tiaras, but...
..IT’S REALLY NOT NOW 😂
Guys, don't quit because of this. Yes, you will get injured a couple of times, but you won't die because of a gaslight or a safety net. And if you choose not to have an eating disorder and focus on yourself, you will be fine. Take it from a dancer.
A lot of this informasion is false so dont wory
That is no what ballet is like
My brother was a dancer he went to college passed all his exams then died the night he went to celebrate he was 19 I often wonder if he would of been a famous dancer r.i.p. Darryl and just so you know his name means my darling
How did he die?
I so sorry how sad
As someone who gets a cramp when I point my toes too long and loves ballet, I think the most beautiful part of ballet is the juxtaposition of the graceful, fluid, beautiful movements and these immensely strong, physically controlled, athletes called ballerinas. The strength + beauty is amazing to me.
Thank you for delineating the psychological trauma ballet dancers can suffer. I was especially grateful that you mentioned the ageism and sexism so widespread in the industry. Sadly, so many dancers and others who aspire but fail to become professional dancers fall prey to anorexia or other manifestations of body dysmorphia. Anorexia, the deadliest of all mental health disorders, is incredibly rampant among ballerinas.
did you just call anorexia "the deadliest of all mental disorders" ?
lol.
Amazing how something so breathtakingly beautiful can be so agonizing and detrimental at the same time
When I was much younger I danced ballet for over 15 years of my life and probably would have continued if I hadn't developed quadriparesis from an unknown degenerative neurological disorder. I started ballet when I was a kid in grade school and had to stop in 1987 when wheelchair-bound but I remember the toe and arch exercises I did more than once a day to build my feet to be able to dance on pointe. I was new on pointe and the only thing that everyone forgot to say was not to start new pointe slippers before a performance. Well, that was the only mess I had experienced but I soon learned my comfortable method of breaking in my slippers right before a performance. Put it this way, I am a tall person and for the most part in our ballet company, I ended a performance with something on pointe at the end. I was usually involved in ballet, tap, and any other form of dance sometimes barefoot even. I loved to dance.
This is why I have much respect for ballerinas and how they are able to be so professional, powerful, beautiful
Thank you so much!
Ballet is Lovely!!!!
Apparently, everything has a Darkside...
Everything can kill us
Lord please help the Ballet dancers,thanks for sharing.
Ballerinas, ballerinos...
As a ballerina,I can confirm we do get hurt and pain is apart of our job it’s what we do but if you take it seriously your not gonna get as horribly hurt as these women. Please be cautious!!
Yeah, I'll stick with other kinds of dance, thanks.
River dancing?
@@stratsteveo106 You mean Irish stepdance or dancing in a river? Never tried either but both sound fun :D
@@stratsteveo106
Did you ever see Riverdance? I saw Michael Flately perform once and he was great and everything, but he was the biggest cock of the walk I've ever seen. After the simplest move he'd take a bow. Most of the audience were middle aged women with embarrassed husbands. At least, my husband was embarrassed....😏
Lame
@@skytheterrible5087 this chigger got some eyes on him ears
Even after watching this, I am never gonna stop doing ballet. It is my heart and soul
Samee
Same here!
This video made me glad I quit ballet.
So basically, they are models with bad feet?
Dancing takes a lot more skill and strength than walking up and down a runway...in fact, the first fashion models were simply failed dancers!
It takes so much strength and determination though. While I have nothing against models as the fashion industry is also extremely competitive (and models always get the short end of the stick), ballet dancers are in a completely different field and level. I did ballet as a child and on and off a few years ago and it's extremely tough :/
No disrespect intended. I have the highest respect for their had work and commitment. Just teasing.
@@lancelotdufrane oh haha sorry! It's late here and I'm pretty bad at catching jokes when tired. No offence taken, don't worry!
Dancers*
Everything comes with a price .... respect for their sacrifice and commitment 👍🏻
Most of this is pretty accurate. But the injuries to feet often come due to a lack of proper training and personal care. I fractured my second metatarsal due to pronating my foot inward. Further more, I was recovering from some pain due to an Os Trigonum in the opposite foot during a six week break. I immediately jumped back into dancing after not doing anything during the break. This sudden stress on top of the pronating cause a stress injury in my foot to escalate to a stress fracture. Toenails will come off due to not letting the feet air out properly or having the wrong kind of pointe shoe for your feet. If you don’t massage the plantar fascia, you will get an injury. Achilles Tendonitis comes if you don’t land your jump correctly or stretch out your ankles properly. Most of these injuries are avoidable (sometimes genetics is just unkind). It’s all in how well you know your body and how well you take care of it. Know your limits and be kind to yourself.
Jesus Christ I should really take my own advice🤣
I do ballet why am I watching this💀
@Dance Moms Mania you just answered..
@@sofa6096 they gave a response they didnt answer nothin 🤷♀️
Gianni Mammana this video scarred me I’m currently training as a full time ballerina
Same
So much awful footage of beginners.
I thought all of them looked really good
I don’t think I saw a single fifth position throughout that entire video
One more bad thing about ballet.. The pretentious people who forget that they too were once a beginner..eww🙄
Paradoxynne do you do ballet?
@Society of the Lost and Broken As an ex-Joffrey ballerina, I can attest that there were many girls in the video, who shouldn't have been en pointe; they were not nearly strong enough or advanced enough. They should do a video on ballet gone wrong when a girl goes en pointe too soon.
Taking my daughter out then
Lol....well damn
Naw it was a joke lol
Not always goes wrong. Ballet is an amazing activity!
How's about tap dancing, an American art form?
Please don’t. Though this video does have some truth it is very dramatized and ballet can be amazing as long as you make sure to instill the right mindset.
I was a dancer and these things are true - I've arthritis from head to toe, joints from my waist down are shot, and still fighting anorexia at almost 50 years old- but I'd not change a thing if I had my life to live over again. Dance was everything to me, nothing brought me more joy, and I was always my strongest, happiest, and best self during those years. If anything, I would work even harder if given the chance to go back. It is a fire that consumes your entire being.
I'm so sorry for what you went through as a dancer.
Thanks, sweetie, that's so kind of you to say. You're a compassionate person
@@cynthiaesquibel3191 You're welcome! As a hospital employee; I was moved to tears seeing how St. John's Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri was completely destroyed by the tornado that devastated Joplin on May 22nd, 2011. I wish more than anyone else that the Joplin city council had left St. John's Medical Center in its ruined state as a memorial to the 161 lives that were lost in the Joplin tornado. Much like how the residents of a small town in northeastern Japan called Ishinomaki left Okawa Elementary School in its ruined state as a memorial to the lives of so many people who died in the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11th, 2011. When the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that generated the tsunami struck off the coast of Japan at 2:46 PM Japanese time; students at Okawa Elementary School immediately followed procedures and took shelter under their desks to be safe from falling debris. Shortly thereafter; the students and faculty members went outside to be safe from aftershocks. Little did anyone at the school know that a tsunami was headed for Ishinomaki, that Miyagi Prefecture was under a high-risk tsunami warning or that there was a tall hill behind the school where they would be safe from the tsunami. Ultimately, seventy-four students and ten teachers were swept to their deaths. During a public inquiry into the deaths of the students killed in the disaster; the only teacher who survived the disaster lowered his head in shame when an angry parent confronted him over his failure to keep their children safe. A year later, the teacher committed suicide.
That's heart breaking! That poor teacher..people can be so cruel..I'm sure the parent was in pain, but to blame another for an act of nature that caused a tragedy is despicable. Bless you for choosing the medical field..there are not too many in it any more with the heart you have. I pray for you to stay strong and healthh, and to not get burned out from it. Be sure to always take time for yourself, too.
Same gymnastics nowadays!....Both of over the natural body limit border.
Wow in a dancer and we don't have this health issues, the only ones we have are stress and that your feet suscks but we are okay with our bones and we are perfectly healthy
I think that everything that goes against nature is dangerous and kills you in the long run , and ballet is so against nature! Beautiful, elegant, impressive, but our feet were not designed to be used that way, we were never meant to be walking or dancing by putting all of our weight on our toes. That's the problem with Ballet in my opinion. Ballet was much healthier in its early form of Baroque dance before the dancing on pointe issue begun
Something about his voice made listening to this SO much easier!!!
Nice timber bad accent
Carl Mason, he's got an amazing voice, doesn't he?! 💛
Yes, beautiful voice. He only needs to pronounce his vowels properly.: (((()
the thumbnail is horrendous, gosh!
Well that person has other stuff going on too not just dancer feet
Number 5 "ageism because some bale moves are structured in such a way that can only be preformed by young people" so the people complaining about this are incapable to continue to preform some of the moves yet thats somehow discrimination?
That really depends on their definition of 'young'. Is young 30, or 14? Because the implication is, only the youngest possible dancers get the best roles and anyone pushing into their late 20s is elbowed out of the industry for being 'too old', despite being perfectly fine dancers. Maybe if they're LUCKY they could be a teacher, but for the majority that 'age out', what can they do now? They've probably trained for 15-odd years exclusively in dance and theater, ruining their bodies in the process. What's left after that? I'd say that an entire industry that consumes the youth and health of dancers desperate for recognition is pretty damn despicable.
@@arourallis the health problems and that its a short lived carrier was know for decades, its practically impossible for those who go the professional rout not to know of this . Yet they still flock to it. Also the health issues is as good as any reason to push them out still in theyr prime so they can start a different carrier while retaining as much as health as possible. Ballerinas who dont want to let it go do it not because its somehow unfair but because theyr refusing to let go of theyr stardom.
Imagine if you danced for years and put your all into it just for someone to dismiss you because you aren't skinny enough or you don't fit a certain criteria. If ballet grew with women until they became professional, we wouldn't have kids and young women dying. I turned 20 and became deeply depressed because I knew I had aged out from becoming professional. I would've needed more practice just to get ahead and by that time it would've been to late. That reality is heartbreaking. Might not be like a big deal to you but for a moment our world ended.
How the hell is 30 too old? Most pro athletes dont stop their work at 30 that's a stupid thing to do.
@Danny Blakeslee I'm a teenager.
My parents were amateur competitive figure skaters in the 1940's and 50's before turning pro in their early twenties. They were dance partners, and my Dad won Senior Men at Nationals more than once. I have a giant box of their medals. They had thick, yellow toenails, foot skin like leather, permanent calluses, and just an overall gross appearance to their feet. This came from the endless hours of practicing landing jumps, and my Dad lifting my Mom over his head. My Dad skated in an international competition once with a newly torn knee cartilage, and came in 3rd. All the skaters behaved like this.
im starting to question the type of person i must be for this type of strange stuff be in my Recommendations and for me to click on it 😂😂😂😂i need a life after kids and work lol
Hahahaha that made me laugh. I was wondering the same 🤣
U must dance thou the pain my chest developed early I use to bind it down, when my madame found out in measurements being done for costumes she dropped me
My mom was a ballerina. She started dancing at 3 & opened her own dance studio at 18. She loved it alot but she experienced both eating disorders & physical damage. When she was 16 she was 5'0 & weighed 85-90 pounds. And ever since she fully quit dancing in her 20s she's had problems with binge eating.
She would practice alot at home on the concrete floor in the basement and it lead to her having stress fractures but she barely used the crutches or let them heal like she was supposed to. She is 52 now & is having to have her knees replaced due to the stress of ballet & eventually working a job where she stood most of the time.
My feet look that bad and I am not a ballet dancer. Mine is retail hoof cause by 20 years of standing on concrete floors. I can feel their pain😢
The retail should offer free air sneakers 👟.
Retail hoof! Good term!
TO ALL BALLET DANCERS!
THROW YOUR WHOLE FEET AWAY. THANKS!
Daniel Leyva well I’m a male and usually pointe shoes don’t go on men
Um, no???
It was a joke smh 😂
@@DLR2230 Sorry, I can't really tell when people are joking or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Kaydence Danielle how are you going to take TH-cam seriously?
You need to have the right body for classical ballet en after good training the body can cope the demands. But it all starts with the body type. Very flexible, and a natural turn out in the hips and knees.
That’s not true u don’t have to have a ballet body to do ballet if ur called to do something u love like ballet u should be able to do it and in the end it’s all for the lord
I bet my life that you don't know anything about ballet and even if you do this isn't true
I've only just started to train as a ballerina, and despite everything, I am so excited to get on pointe!
Reach for your dreams!!!
All that stuff about mental issues and stress is 100% true many people became depressed due to the pressures of dance