week in the life a professional ballet dancer *THE REALITY*
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- *week in the life a professional ballet dancer *THE REALITY*
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Hey there! If you are new around here my name is Hannah Martin and I am currently a full time professional ballet dancer. On this channel I love to share my journey, the tips and tricks I've learnt along the way, and help motivate you all on your path towards your dreams! If you enjoyed this video I really hope you would consider liking this video and clicking that subscribe button to become part of our motivating community! :)
And most importantly,
Dream Big,
Make it Happen! - บันเทิง
What are the things that make you feel at home when you are away? Let me know 🙌🏻
Hi, I hope you are doing well. Do you have any tips to grow your TH-cam channel?
I have a sleeping sack - its like a sleeping bag but just made of lightweight sheet material. I put it between the bed sheets and it always feels like home. That and a diffuser for essential oils and to humidify the air - hotels some times stink so its nice to always have a scent that calms me available anywhere I travel
I like to sleep hugging something (I have cylindrical pillow at home) because it helps me relax, so I try to bring a stuffed toy as a substitute.
My own pillow and pillow case !
Thanks for another really interesting video! It was nice to see a bit more of your colleagues in this one. I’m currently living between Birmingham and Greece so your question is quite relevant. I spend up to six days on the road going through Europe between my two homes as well. Definitely making similar food helps give me a sense of consistency, as do my running and yoga routines. I think the best thing, though, is always remembering to pray. I find it really doesn’t matter where in the world you are if you can feel close to God. Have a good week in Plymouth!
Hannah, I am 55 years old. Watching your videos inspires me to continue eating well, getting my exercise, and generally taking care of my body. Thank you so much for all your posts.
And take an adult ballet class lol 😂
Yes! I’m 60 and agree! I’ve even started eating oatmeal (porridge) or hot muesli with unsweetened cocoa and berries and it’s a total game changer!
I still take my ballet classes and dance en pointe. Hannah, you’re an inspiration so keep dancing and take good care of yourself!
@@judegarcia6657 you get it gal !
@@rippy4freedom yes! I take them sometimes at our local ballet company, they have an adult school for the public. There are people of all ages, genders, and body types there. We frequently have multiple people in their 50s and 60. Never to late to learn or get back into dance!
This makes me so so happy! Thank you for sharing ❤️🥹🙏
I'm 26 going on 27. I haven't been in ballet since I was 6 or 7. I had to get out of it due to it being so expensive that my mom couldn't keep up with it. But watching you and other professionals has inspired me so much. I've been working on my body for a year now trying to get all 3 of my splits in as well as turn outs so I can sign up for adult ballet. I hope to become a professional like you and so many others. I listen to your videos while working and they just relax me and keep me motivated. Please keep doing what you're doing and spread so much love around the world. We love you. 🙏🩰💕🩷❤️🌹
We are here Hannah and loving it all. Your day in a life on tour is always interesting. Take care, hope you get a good rest tucked in there somewhere.
Thanks so much! 😊
Watching how your week went is one of my favourite ways to wind down but also get motivated! Keep up the great work and no, your vlogs are definitely not repetitive 🥰
Thank you so much! This makes me so happy 😅
I didn’t realize your company toured sooooo much until I started following you. You guys are all amazing! Have a great week! ❤
Maybe just set an alarm on your phone that says “drink water” during the day?
Yes! We tour a lot especially at the beginning of the year!
Thank you for the water tip! I might try and set some reminders on my phone!!
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LOVE all your videos! They make me feel so motivated about exercising and being active (which I normally am, but you give me an extra boost) 😊 Plus, the improvement you’ve made since surgery is impressive. You should be really proud of yourself. I live in Spain but I wish I get to see you perform someday. Keep going, keep dreaming big and making it happen 🥰💪
your videos give me a ton of motivation to work on my dreams! ❤
This makes me so happy! Thank you!!
The bottle story!!!! Me too😂😂😂i leave mine at work, and will end the day with the same amount of water in it as it had the day before😭
I love these vlogs, not repetitive at all, keep them coming 🙂 take care!
Yay! Thank you!
loving these vlogs looking forward to see more, very inspiring 😊❤
Glad you like them! Thank you so much!
2/ What you are doing besides entertaining, educating, and inspiring your viewers is literally recording days of your life that you can look back on when you get older. So in a way you are doing this for your future self and potential children and students and stuff. Maybe even historians. You could be like the Samuel Pepys of early 21st-century ballet! ❤
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 love this thought
I really enjoy the written comments on your videos! They are very funny 😂! Enjoy your life, be happy and healthy! ❤
Yay! I’m so glad you like them! I never know if they are that funny or not
Great video as always!! ❤
Thank you!! 😊
Love you Hannah!❤
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I feel you on the Swans 🦢 situation. I danced the Big Swans which suits my body and jumping ability.
Big Swans is such a lovely role 😍
great vlog as usual :D
Thank you! 🙏🙏
YOU ARE gorgeous Hannah! OMG OLIVIAAA
Thank you 🙈
Thank you so much!!
I thought it was a brilliant vlog. :-) The best part was when my little boy (not quite two-years-old) saw the big exercise ball in the beginning and was reaching for the laptop going, "Ball? Ball? Ball ball ball ball!"
Just kidding, I enjoyed all of it, and I don't feel like it's boring or repetitive at all! You're beautiful, Hannah.
Hehe, so so cute! Thanks for sharing 😅
Hi Hannah, could you make a video on tips to do self-practice as a professional dancer/the exercises you do daily to help improve technique.Thanks🤗
Thank you for this idea! I’ll see what I can do! 🙏
1/ I love the little clips of you dancing! I especially love the flowy skirt! ❤️
Regarding hotels: are you allowed to choose at what hotel to stay? I had assumed your company booked all of the dancers at the same hotel. Please don't go to any extra trouble just to make your vlogs a bit different!
As for whether they are getting repetitive, it sounds like what you're asking is are the viewers bored? Of course, there is going to be repetition because you have the same type of schedule for shows and meals etc. with maybe a bit of variation from time to time. A lot of what you do and a lot of what everybody does in their life is routine and that's not avoidable; as a matter of fact, it makes life easier. So I am not at all bored as I really enjoy your vlogs! In my opinion, don't change anything unless you want to. Don't feel forced to do something different because you think it might get more views, is my suggestion.
I've split up my remarks into multiple comments, and hopefully that will help the algorithm as well!
Thank you so much for the confidence just to keep on carrying on!
Yes, the company books our hotel but we do have an option to take tour allowance and book our own if we so choose. I just need to be organised enough to do it 😂
@@HannahMartinRG You are most welcome! That is very interesting that they allow you to choose your own hotel if you prefer. I would not have expected that. Since you do room reviews in your vlogs, you could start a spreadsheet for the locations at which you have stayed. You can have columns, which you can check off, for mini fridges, type of bath, availability of porridge, whatever your priorities are etc. I don’t know if your company goes to the same towns each year or if they switch it up. If it’s the same towns, that would make things easier. If not, at least if you are staying at chain hotels, you may find that one chain always has mini fridges, whereas others are hit and miss.
You are still very new in this career so being organized to that extent will come much more easily with time. I am very impressed that with all of the extra stress that touring creates, you are finding time to record several times each day, and edit your videos, and respond to comments! You are doing amazingly well! And it’s perfectly OK if you need to take a break from social media. Just write a community post that you’re taking a break and everybody will understand. Lotsa hugs! 💕👏🙌😍
I was just thinking from a nutrition standpoint, maybe it could be nice to add cashews, quinoa or 'parelcouscous' to your salad if you need more energy, or hazelnuts to your morning porridge. I tend to burn a lot of energy doing very little and these tend to help me out.
Thank you for these tips 🙌🏻🤩
4/ Dehydration has physical repercussions, which are not good, and can contribute to feelings of both physical and mental exhaustion, and can also cause nausea which you may have noticed. If you can, start to prioritize drinking water. You may even want to get some Gatorade powder and put a little bit in your bottle before you go to work and then add water. "Shaken, not stirred." 😁 The electrolytes are good for your body. "Electrolytes will help replace minerals, such as sodium, magnesium, and potassium, that are lost when you sweat or get sick."
If you're having difficulty remembering to drink water, maybe ask the other dancers what they do. By the way, you and your friends look absolutely stunning!
Take care! ❤
Thank you for these tips!! Hydration is so so important! I need to keep working on ways to remind myself more often!
@@HannahMartinRG You’re welcome! A simple way to remind oneself of something is to write the letter “W“ for example, on the inside of your finger or palm, or wherever nobody else will notice it, but where it’s also not likely to rub off. Do you have a bag that is always with you including backstage at performances? You could tie a reminder note around the straps. Where you have a locker, you can put a Post-it note on the inside of the door.
Remembering to drink water is probably complicated in your case by:
1. Being on tour because it means you have constantly changing locations for practices, rehearsals and performances, not to mention you are living in a hotel room instead of your apartment. That is why having the same bag with you at all times full of essentials and reminder notes would be so helpful. I’m sorry I don’t know much about what you have backstage with you at a performance. I hope you at least have little storage lockers for your valuables.
2. Considerations of when it’s possible to have bathroom breaks. It would be very understandable for someone in your situation to avoid drinking because one might not want to feel the urge to go in the middle of a rehearsal or performance. I’ve always found that when one is producing adrenaline, the body’s immediate bodily athletic needs are prioritized, and therefore signals like hunger and normal bathroom urges are less likely. (Keeping in mind that our physiology has evolved over millions of years to have “fight, flight or freeze“ reactions to danger. Although we consciously know that a rehearsal or performance is not “dangerous“, feeling even the slightest bit hyped up, nervous or anxious will engage the same physiological reaction. Actually, in an intensely dangerous situation, it happens that animals, including humans, lose control of their bladder and bowels because the body wants to get rid of nonessential functions like digestion in order to provide maximum energy for fight or flight, since the most important instinct of every living being is survival. That also explains the “nervous pee” urge many people have before a performance or public speaking or something.)
I don’t know what your rhythmic gymnastics coaches were like, but I’ve been appalled when watching documentaries on Russian training, where they do not allow the girls to drink water at all during the day at practice. One of the girls who trained at Vaganova said the same thing. This is very harmful. If you were trained to have the belief you should not have water at practice, or during a break in your performance, that will be another mental barrier you will have to overcome.
Since you have certainly felt the negative effects of dehydration, and how much better you feel when you do drink water periodically, that mental barrier will probably be quite easy to conquer! 💧
❤ you're so exhausted 🥱
Take care of you...I'm recovering from hand surgery & it's a trial. Thank you for the inspiration. X
Good luck in your recovery! You’ve got this!! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Thank you Hannah 😊 focusing on the joy through the trials that only He can give ❤️
My own pillow
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I had been wondering why you keep your apartment so cold, but I just read a news article about the cost-of-living crisis in the UK. I guess that's what sweaters and blankets are for! Also, in the US, I think every hotel has a mini-fridge in the room. For future vlogs, maybe you could show us a little of your pre-travel prep, like packing, etc, and maybe a theater tour?
I've been meaning to say this... Those swan headpieces are hideous! Are those easier to wear than just plain wings on their own?
Get some rest!
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Yes! Mini fridges should be compulsory!! I wish they were here!
The headdresses really hurt to wear for long periods of time at first, but then it got better as the run of shows went on!
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Omg the person who created PBT is MY BALLET TEACHER!!!
PBT is a great workout 🙌🏻🙌🏻
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Regarding overthinking when you are tired: compartmentalization may be the answer: a "form of psychological defense mechanism in which thoughts and feelings that seem to conflict are kept separated or isolated from each other in the mind."
This basically involves:
1. Learning to identify your thought patterns, deciding which thoughts you are going to keep and what you're going to put away for later or discard completely,
2. along with positive self talk. And
3. the knowledge that your physical exhaustion is causing your brain to start offering up these thoughts, that there's nothing wrong with your brain, that it's normal for it to do that when you're physically exhausted. But it's nothing to worry about. That once you've had enough food and drink and your nutritional needs are met, you will feel better already.
Remember:
1. "An empty stomach breeds imagination."
2. "Night changes many thoughts."
There is lots of information online to get much more detailed descriptions, or if you would like me to provide examples let me know! ❤
Couldn’t agree more with these statements. Sometimes I know I just need to sleep and eat and a lot of my mental distress just disappears!
@@HannahMartinRG this is valuable knowledge which is fantastic to have at your age! It took me quite a few years longer to figure it out myself, so I’m glad I can pass it on! 😍
You are such a beautiful ballerina Hannah
Thank you 🙈🙏
@@HannahMartinRG your welcome ma'am
How are your iron levels?
❤ It should be a law to have a minifridge in every hotel, haha. Another successful week for you. Yes I love roasted broccoli. I toss mine with crispy tofu and soy sauce.
Yessss!! That meal sounds amazing 🤩
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Are you not bringing Swan Lake here to London? When is BRB back in London? It was so great seeing you in DQ last year!
Unfortunately not! But I think we may be there for Black Sabbath in Autumn season?
Being a dancer myself, i have a question that I have been pondering about for a bit: You seem to be doing different characters/ dances for each show. How does that work? Does every dancer know each part of the show, so you can just switch out? Or do you have a set cycle in which you take turns playing the different characters? Super curious.
Yes, there are several of us cast in each role and we all get a chance to perform them in each venue. It gives everyone a chance to recover between more demanding roles and it also keeps it interesting for the dancers who do similar roles each night. I really enjoy doing a variety of roles. It makes the experience different each day 🙌🏻
@@HannahMartinRG That makes sense. Thanks so much for explaining! I had always wondered.
A whole bowl of broccoli before bedtime?it’s very windy!
Sorry from America but is Porridge oatmeal?
So it seems your troupe is making a national tour. Have you gone internationally?
Not yet, but maybe next year 🙏
THANKYOU… I really appreciate that you Vlog edit upload dance travel perform app take care of yourself and still maintain this beautiful positive attitude thank you for being so wonderful and sharing your life I was a dancer a ballet dancer and then I was a erotic dancer pole dancer for till I was 52 now I’m working on movies 61 Life goes by fast enjoy it I remember how tired I used to be very tired very very tired soon enough you won’t be so tired but you won’t be living such an exciting life and you’ll look back on it and go oh my gosh how did I do that you’re amazing love seeing your world big hugs 🫂 🤍💐🌈🎖😂👍
Thank you for this reminder to enjoy each moment! Even through the tiredness 🙏💪🏻
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