As a former circus acrobat who had a lot of handbalancer friends, I'm honestly floored by the frogs! The level of training and skill it takes just to balace that long is quite high, but to do hops and that many steps at once is just plain astronomical. Chinese acrobats are on a whole different level (several were my coaches back in the day), so I guess I shouldn't be so shocked, but still, holy heck!
if you have a good upper body / core strength you won't feel pain at the wrists! When you do, it's because you aren't realising well the force on your abdomen/ arms
Ok the Froggy's had me cracking up because they actually looked like frogs when they were jumping. The one where they were using their hands was so good and kinda makes me want to try that as well.
I have seen the frogs & the hands one too. The frogs is a family favorite. My kids have taken ballet for like 7 years & are also acrobatic gymnasts & they watch the frogs all the time. 🐸🐸🐸🐸
Do you remember when you reacted to the Chinese state circus ballerina on that guy’s head? The frogs were from the same acrobatic company, they did the *ENTIRE BALLET* the whole thing is on TH-cam and I’m dying for you to react to it!!
the expectation break when the frogs entered right when we all are conditioned to expect the little swans, it was too much for me, i just couldn't handle it, i laughed so much that i pissed myself 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cirque du Soliel very rarely gets that caliber of acrobats. Their contacts are awful so a lot of top tier circus performers have been staying away from them for over a decade now so most of their performers are former non-circus pro athletes that Cirque takes in and trains to fill roles. The few good Cirque shows that are left are shows like Corteo where they must have done some major bargaining as they were able to bring back most of the original cast.
The first time I saw Swan Lake performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet was for my 45 birthday 5 years ago. I cried 😢 it was so beautiful and the first time I had seen a live performance stunning 😢❤
The first video is the Chinese acrobatic swan lake and I NEED you to react to the pas de deux!!!! I saw it live as a little girl. I was about 8 year old ballerina and we watched from a box, I cried! Hands down the best thing I have ever seen in dance ever. The video is amazing but it doesn't do it justice!
I adore you! Lolol 😁! Are you still doing the virtual fitting program? I'm in Washington state, so getting to you would be a bit difficult, and I would LOVE it if you could do more of an assessment as to what shoe you feel might best work for me more than anything. I was using a Grishko(?spelling) and can't remember the style; however, I have short toes and more of a square foot if that helps - Lolol, it's been a while since they were still called 'Grishkos', and not the other name you mentioned in a video a little while ago. Apologies for blathering on and on! Lolol 🙂! I hope this gift helps a little, and I think you and I somehow had the same teachers from back in the day! ROFL 🤣! If you are able to do a virtual session, please let me know how to make arrangements for that and pay you. I can send you my information on your official website or call you. Thank you so much for all your amazing videos and sage advice to young dancers! Love it! You're awesome! 🥰 - Lady Anne (Jessica M. Kandal, PhD)
this was great! the frogs were my favorite then i saw 2:06 lmbo 🤣🤣🤣 that's the perfect caption 😁 I love this channel! another awesome video n great job editor!
OMG! The frogs were insane! I took acrobats and as a teen my teacher desided to use me as a guiniea pig to learn an elbow stand. Just that trick, not on hands but elbows strained every abdominal muscle! I can't imagine the amount of pain they went through learning this!
2:58 I'm getting "Up and Over it" vibes. For those not in the know, they're a pair of Irish dancers that have made a name for themselves taking what used to be their way to mentally practice an irish step routine when not performing or in a space to practice it (ballet dancers in ny might relate). It a percussive routine in their case, but it reminds me of this.
Hey Josephine! I love your work❤ I was just wondering if you had any tips everytime I go up en pointe my feet always cramp really bad even if a stretch and it isn’t the most comfortable at all😂 is there anything that could help?
I recommend using some resistance bands to help strengthen your feet and ankles to help support you! Place the resistance band along the ball of your flexed foot and stretch the ends towards your body, then roll your feet through to a point. Gradually increase the strength of the bands as it gets easier to roll through. Plenty of demonstration videos online to help guide you too, I hope this helps!
I'm seeing Swan Lake in San Francisco Feb 25th, 2024. Which I know already because I'm a subscriber. Which is your fault for getting me into ballet. So there.
I go to at least one SF Ballet performance each year, and have gotten to drag some of my favorite people into being ballet lovers by making them go with me. Hopefully I'll see you there someday!
Can you please include links to the original videos? I want to see more and original artists deserve the credit. Please anyone feel free to point out where I missed seeing the links if they're already included somewhere.
I have been watching your videos for a while and it has finally made me want to join ballet all though I'm now 13 its very late so I'm very scared cause I don't know anything or anyone any advise I'm having a panic attack
Not related to this video, but i have a question lol. How long are pointe shoes good if they are still in the plastic and the nylon bags the gaynors come in? The dance wear store i used to work at has unfortunately closed but we still have a lot of older (within the last 5-10 yrs) gaynors that we want to try to sell but someone said they wouldn't be any good because the box and shank would have softened over time, especially since the store is damp feeling, but they have been in factory packaging as well as in plastic shoe boxes. Are they still usable? HELP!! 😂
Why would you constantly want to see the exact same dance over and over. Sounds like a massive yawn. Especially since there are no words to even tell the stories. Use some creativity
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The hand choreo is just how every teacher demonstrates the dance to the students 😂
🤣🤣🤣🥹
200 likes and one reply? Lemme fix that
So true! 🤣
As a former circus acrobat who had a lot of handbalancer friends, I'm honestly floored by the frogs! The level of training and skill it takes just to balace that long is quite high, but to do hops and that many steps at once is just plain astronomical. Chinese acrobats are on a whole different level (several were my coaches back in the day), so I guess I shouldn't be so shocked, but still, holy heck!
when they were handstanding i could feel the wrist pain
I can feel the blood rushing to my 🧠 in the first one.
if you have a good upper body / core strength you won't feel pain at the wrists! When you do, it's because you aren't realising well the force on your abdomen/ arms
i’m taking a masterclass with a former pilobolus dancer and OMG the wrist pain!
Ok the Froggy's had me cracking up because they actually looked like frogs when they were jumping. The one where they were using their hands was so good and kinda makes me want to try that as well.
I love that they are actually doing the correct choreo but with their hands! The little pas de chats, and petit jetes were cute and funny!
I have seen the frogs & the hands one too. The frogs is a family favorite. My kids have taken ballet for like 7 years & are also acrobatic gymnasts & they watch the frogs all the time. 🐸🐸🐸🐸
Do you remember when you reacted to the Chinese state circus ballerina on that guy’s head?
The frogs were from the same acrobatic company, they did the *ENTIRE BALLET* the whole thing is on TH-cam and I’m dying for you to react to it!!
as someone whos favorite color is green: the green from your shirt is impeccable *.*
Bro I'm wearing g the same shirt right now, except the buttons are a different colour !!
the expectation break when the frogs entered right when we all are conditioned to expect the little swans, it was too much for me, i just couldn't handle it, i laughed so much that i pissed myself 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The frog routine was like Cirque de Soleil. And the mini ballet hand dancing was super cute.
Cirque du Soliel very rarely gets that caliber of acrobats. Their contacts are awful so a lot of top tier circus performers have been staying away from them for over a decade now so most of their performers are former non-circus pro athletes that Cirque takes in and trains to fill roles. The few good Cirque shows that are left are shows like Corteo where they must have done some major bargaining as they were able to bring back most of the original cast.
I would love to see Swan Lake at SF Ballet!
But those frogs were AMAZING! Wow! And the little hand/arm dancing swans were so cute too.
The first time I saw Swan Lake performed by the Birmingham Royal Ballet was for my 45 birthday 5 years ago. I cried 😢 it was so beautiful and the first time I had seen a live performance stunning 😢❤
Those were awesome! The frogs made my hands and arm hurt just watching…and the little swans were soooo cute!
She always thinks looking at the camera is going to save her 😂
The weirdest wildest funniest act, and Josephine can't stop talking about and questioning what pointe shoes are on their hands 😂😂😂 only Josephine
The frogs were adorable. And your shirt is beautiful and that shade of green looks stunning on you!
The first video is the Chinese acrobatic swan lake and I NEED you to react to the pas de deux!!!! I saw it live as a little girl. I was about 8 year old ballerina and we watched from a box, I cried! Hands down the best thing I have ever seen in dance ever. The video is amazing but it doesn't do it justice!
It’s been years since I was in pointe but, I’ll still put on my pointe shoes, watch the ballet on TV and drink a glass of wine
Josephine, I loved this. Please show more like this.
😭Imaginethe rehearsal for this, must've been exhausting!!!
a video on fitting dancers with a longer second toe would be great. I just started pointe and I'm having so many issues with this T_T
The arm performance reminds me of like every ballerina when they are memorising their dance or routine with their hands.
I was getting "Up and over it" vibes, which is the Irish step dancing equivalent.
I adore you! Lolol 😁! Are you still doing the virtual fitting program? I'm in Washington state, so getting to you would be a bit difficult, and I would LOVE it if you could do more of an assessment as to what shoe you feel might best work for me more than anything. I was using a Grishko(?spelling) and can't remember the style; however, I have short toes and more of a square foot if that helps - Lolol, it's been a while since they were still called 'Grishkos', and not the other name you mentioned in a video a little while ago. Apologies for blathering on and on! Lolol 🙂! I hope this gift helps a little, and I think you and I somehow had the same teachers from back in the day! ROFL 🤣!
If you are able to do a virtual session, please let me know how to make arrangements for that and pay you. I can send you my information on your official website or call you. Thank you so much for all your amazing videos and sage advice to young dancers! Love it! You're awesome!
🥰 - Lady Anne (Jessica M. Kandal, PhD)
A-mazing! So creative. And technical in their own right
When your port de bras is ON POINTE
Wow! That is some serious ingenuity! Very impressed.
this was great! the frogs were my favorite then i saw 2:06 lmbo 🤣🤣🤣 that's the perfect caption 😁 I love this channel! another awesome video n great job editor!
@Josephine I am glad to see an UNTRAUMATIZED Josephine smile over these cute vids!❤
Ahhh this was absolutely charming
Have you seen this French men's dance troupe do the Dance of the Little Swans? They're wearing orange socks, swan suits, and baseball caps with bills.
Now I have to go find that 🤣
This was such a fun video❤
OMG! The frogs were insane! I took acrobats and as a teen my teacher desided to use me as a guiniea pig to learn an elbow stand. Just that trick, not on hands but elbows strained every abdominal muscle! I can't imagine the amount of pain they went through learning this!
2:58 I'm getting "Up and Over it" vibes. For those not in the know, they're a pair of Irish dancers that have made a name for themselves taking what used to be their way to mentally practice an irish step routine when not performing or in a space to practice it (ballet dancers in ny might relate). It a percussive routine in their case, but it reminds me of this.
You should see "The Swine Lake" 😂😂
i love your videos so much!❤
It's inspiring to see that some of these exercises also have you breathing a little heavier !
Omg I love that shirt you have on! SLAY!
Oh my god, they are so good!
I’ll definitely be seeing it in SF next season
Hey Josephine! I love your work❤ I was just wondering if you had any tips everytime I go up en pointe my feet always cramp really bad even if a stretch and it isn’t the most comfortable at all😂 is there anything that could help?
I recommend using some resistance bands to help strengthen your feet and ankles to help support you! Place the resistance band along the ball of your flexed foot and stretch the ends towards your body, then roll your feet through to a point. Gradually increase the strength of the bands as it gets easier to roll through. Plenty of demonstration videos online to help guide you too, I hope this helps!
Cups, obviously 👀
@@mckennygay2819 omg thank you so much really appreciate the tip❤
@@gateauxq4604oh yeah for sure I’ll go get them now🏃♀️💨😂
These are great!
It looks like the frogs are circus performers
The frogs!!! 🩷🩷🩷
I loved the frogs!
I miss your pointe shoe fittings videos.
Astounding!!!!
I'm seeing Swan Lake in San Francisco Feb 25th, 2024. Which I know already because I'm a subscriber. Which is your fault for getting me into ballet. So there.
2:15 I'm just imagining ostriches doing ballet 🤣
"this is what you made me into" 😄
The episode was great.
I might be in San Francisco! And I’m definitely going to see swan lake if it’s still on
Was the hand ballet done by the Trocks? I've seen them do several silly Swan Lake dances live. They are also amazing.
Have you seen the all-male version of swan lake? I found it on youtube a while ago, but it was lovely!
Adorbs!
I go to at least one SF Ballet performance each year, and have gotten to drag some of my favorite people into being ballet lovers by making them go with me. Hopefully I'll see you there someday!
Thanks for the reminder. I need to get tix for next season at SF Ballet …
Can you please include links to the original videos? I want to see more and original artists deserve the credit.
Please anyone feel free to point out where I missed seeing the links if they're already included somewhere.
POV you show up for what you think is normal swan lake but you get the arm swan lake instead.
the second one is my teacher marking stuff lol
Are they baby pointe shoes or are they actually ... cups!?
Recuerdo que tambien existe uno de patos.
I have been watching your videos for a while and it has finally made me want to join ballet all though I'm now 13 its very late so I'm very scared cause I don't know anything or anyone any advise I'm having a panic attack
There's one where they are skeletons and they make all sorts of "mistakes", you should see it!
I am in San fran for 24 hours at the start of August on my way back to Australia..!
I WAS THE THOUSANDTH LIKE 😱
38th!
Not related to this video, but i have a question lol. How long are pointe shoes good if they are still in the plastic and the nylon bags the gaynors come in? The dance wear store i used to work at has unfortunately closed but we still have a lot of older (within the last 5-10 yrs) gaynors that we want to try to sell but someone said they wouldn't be any good because the box and shank would have softened over time, especially since the store is damp feeling, but they have been in factory packaging as well as in plastic shoe boxes. Are they still usable? HELP!! 😂
All I can see with the second chore are tiny baby ostriches lol
Josephine❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😄
Upper body strength? They are up side down, what do you mean?
Please link the second one e
Early!!!!!!
Hi
the "hands as feet" version looks like "horse hooves"
china is an interesting place
If you squint the hand choreo dancers look like tiny ballerinas with th feather on their neck emulating tutus!
The 🐸 Lake, has to have been done by males, surely?
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Ur not also no one cares
Why would you constantly want to see the exact same dance over and over. Sounds like a massive yawn. Especially since there are no words to even tell the stories. Use some creativity
First can you pin please?
If you squint the hand choreo dancers look like tiny ballerinas with th feather on their neck emulating tutus!