@@NatalieDanzaBallet+ The way our studio did it, was that you had the 'main' grades, (you could be in a grade from anywhere between 1-4 years,) and then you had the elites. You had to pay a certain amount of money to be part of the elite, or have connections to someone else that was apart of it. (Really nothing to do with skill or talent,) and they were the people who got to get specialised training, and was invited to dance competitions, although they rarely ever placed. The elites also happened to be in your grade class aswell, so whatever small amount of time that was left aside for us, was also shared and often taken over by the elites. We just had to participate in the same show every two years, and take the same exams of doing the same exercises in the meantime. Even if you happened to pass your exams, there was no guarantee that you would get to move up (often having to do with your age,) and you would rehearse the exact same exercises every week for the next two years, when exams rolled around again. It was ridiculous, lol. I was in grade 3 (12 years old) when I learned to do one pirrouette, that I could have easily mastered years prior through reading a Wikipedia article... I should have just learned from you, lol.
Kiera Haggarty that school sounds horrible! Every year if you have been getting better you move up a level at my school. I am in level 8 or 9 I think in my school. I am 16 and I’ve been dancing for 11 years
Yes, but be sure you take proper care of your feet and toes, I did not properly prep my feet for my nutcracker practice yesterday and now I have 5 blisters. Be careful
this is perfect! thank you for this haven't danced in about 3 years and this was perfect to ease back into it! (don't worry I have a lot of experience on pointe)
I just commented on a video before I saw that this existed asking for beginner/intermediate pointe routines! I'm so glad you're doing this and would LOVE to see more.
I’m not on pointe yet either, but I gave this a thumbs up anyway! Maybe I’ll learn it on demi pointe? Natalie, your technique is perfect in this video! Everything looks perfectly strong, precise, and elegant. 💗👍🏻👍🏻
Love it! Also, that first step was taught to me as a balancè. I was taught that a pas de basque goes in front of the standing leg. Basically, a reverse balancè.
@@NatalieDanzaBallet Oh, I'm so sorry, I think I misheard. My apologies. Somehow in 15 years of ballet, I've never been taught pas de valse. But I've also never been taught guigallades or however you spell it and also haven't been taught a renverse so I taught it to myself.
I’ve never done dance, actually I’m quite bad at it but I find it very interesting especially pointe. It’s so elegant and beautiful especially when you think about all the pain and hard work it takes. I find it so funny that I never have and probably never will dance but my joints pop like a dancers.
Thank you for a pointe variation! I have really enjoyed your videos and all the effort you put forth for the adult ballet community. I’m going to post a video on Instagram once I’m ready to present you my pointe work. This is fabulous for the advanced beginner pointe student. You have done a great piece of choreography for us, much appreciated! ❤️😄
All dance sections with music 4:25 first 5:30 second 6:39 third All the way through ( she didnt know it was going to be blurry but the first parts are blurry) 6:49
thank you , You are my friend now! : I'm doing this part on December .... I danced this at 4 ....as a little girl. Now I dance with the real ballet choreography , at 49 . (Still not on pointe )
This is so pretty! I get my pointe shoes in a few days, so I don't think I'll have the strength to do this before the Christmas talent show, but I love it anyway! I performed your Dance of the Flutes in flats/demi last year and I got so many compliments! Thanks and love! Also, please make more beginner pointe variations. There really aren't that many on TH-cam and half of them are NOT for beginners.
Thank you Anna! Sorry I don't have the music with me right now but if you work back from the end, you'll find it. I took the last section of the music :)
Hi Natalie! I absolutely love this. I will be teaching this to my pointe students tonight. When does the actual routine begin in the music? I can’t seem to time it just right. Thank you!
Hi Natalie I am having a look at your videos concerning Nutcracker. I think Balancé is the way the teacher refers to a pas de valtz when being en face...Un beso y muchas gracias por tus vídeos
Thank you! By the way, if pointe is really something you'd love to do, it's never too late to work towards going on pointe with a good ballet teacher :)
Thanks Kate! You could always do a lower passé (just below the knee is also correct). Best thing I think is to practice it without touching your toes to your leg at all, that way you ensure you're using all the strength in your legs. Also stretching in the middle splits will help with the turn out :)
The pas de bourreé section in to fourth is really beautyful with the music.
thank you! I'm so glad you like it :)
Beautiful! Did ballet for 8 years, still classed as beginner.
#BadStudios...
Thank you! Studios can really vary so much and the teacher makes such a difference! :)
@@NatalieDanzaBallet+ The way our studio did it, was that you had the 'main' grades, (you could be in a grade from anywhere between 1-4 years,) and then you had the elites. You had to pay a certain amount of money to be part of the elite, or have connections to someone else that was apart of it. (Really nothing to do with skill or talent,) and they were the people who got to get specialised training, and was invited to dance competitions, although they rarely ever placed.
The elites also happened to be in your grade class aswell, so whatever small amount of time that was left aside for us, was also shared and often taken over by the elites.
We just had to participate in the same show every two years, and take the same exams of doing the same exercises in the meantime. Even if you happened to pass your exams, there was no guarantee that you would get to move up (often having to do with your age,) and you would rehearse the exact same exercises every week for the next two years, when exams rolled around again. It was ridiculous, lol. I was in grade 3 (12 years old) when I learned to do one pirrouette, that I could have easily mastered years prior through reading a Wikipedia article...
I should have just learned from you, lol.
Kiera Haggarty that school sounds horrible! Every year if you have been getting better you move up a level at my school. I am in level 8 or 9 I think in my school. I am 16 and I’ve been dancing for 11 years
To bad I'm not on Pointe yet but I can feel it to be fun and magical.just like the Sugar Plum.
Yay! Thank you! I'm sure you'll get to be on pointe in the future and you can try it :)
Yes, but be sure you take proper care of your feet and toes, I did not properly prep my feet for my nutcracker practice yesterday and now I have 5 blisters. Be careful
I am in pointe, and it took awhile to gain strength but its cool
@@talileonard2553 i got 1 today :')
You can probably do a similar variation to this on flats!
this is perfect! thank you for this haven't danced in about 3 years and this was perfect to ease back into it! (don't worry I have a lot of experience on pointe)
Yay amazing!! :)
I just commented on a video before I saw that this existed asking for beginner/intermediate pointe routines! I'm so glad you're doing this and would LOVE to see more.
Yay! Thanks! Will be doing more soon! :)
I’m not on pointe yet either, but I gave this a thumbs up anyway! Maybe I’ll learn it on demi pointe? Natalie, your technique is perfect in this video! Everything looks perfectly strong, precise, and elegant. 💗👍🏻👍🏻
thank you so so much! You can definitely dance this on demi too! :)
Love it! Also, that first step was taught to me as a balancè. I was taught that a pas de basque goes in front of the standing leg. Basically, a reverse balancè.
You're right, a pas de basque is different! I was wondering about balancé vs. pas de valse! Still not sure about that one! :)
@@NatalieDanzaBallet Oh, I'm so sorry, I think I misheard. My apologies. Somehow in 15 years of ballet, I've never been taught pas de valse. But I've also never been taught guigallades or however you spell it and also haven't been taught a renverse so I taught it to myself.
To clarify, we've been taught it but just as a waltz step. The pas de valse, that is. :)
I’ve never done dance, actually I’m quite bad at it but I find it very interesting especially pointe. It’s so elegant and beautiful especially when you think about all the pain and hard work it takes. I find it so funny that I never have and probably never will dance but my joints pop like a dancers.
Thanks for this video!!! It’s been about four years since I’ve been on pointe and I miss it dearly! Perfect for learning in my apartment.
You're so welcome!
I’ll use some of these steps for my presentation. Thank you very much 💜
P.S. you look so beautiful when you dance ☺️✨
Thank you so much! Hope your presentation went well :)
I’ve been doing pointe for 2 years now and I live this ❤️!!
Yayyyyy! Happy dancing 🩰
I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS
Thank you so much ☺️
I love this!! I’d like to see some other Nutcracker choreo videos!:) Maybe snow, Spanish, Russian or marzipan
Thanks for the ideas Grace! :)
it is more difficult than it looks! That pass de buree. Still haven't figured it out but i'm working on it. Thank you!
It’s definitely harder than it looks! Keep going lovely, you’ll get it! 🩰⭐️
Thank you for a pointe variation! I have really enjoyed your videos and all the effort you put forth for the adult ballet community. I’m going to post a video on Instagram once I’m ready to present you my pointe work. This is fabulous for the advanced beginner pointe student. You have done a great piece of choreography for us, much appreciated! ❤️😄
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you liked the video! I will be making more soon! :)
All dance sections with music
4:25 first
5:30 second
6:39 third
All the way through ( she didnt know it was going to be blurry but the first parts are blurry)
6:49
Thank you for all videos
thank you , You are my friend now! : I'm doing this part on December .... I danced this at 4 ....as a little girl. Now I dance with the real ballet choreography , at 49 . (Still not on pointe )
Wonderful! :)
This is so pretty! I get my pointe shoes in a few days, so I don't think I'll have the strength to do this before the Christmas talent show, but I love it anyway! I performed your Dance of the Flutes in flats/demi last year and I got so many compliments! Thanks and love! Also, please make more beginner pointe variations. There really aren't that many on TH-cam and half of them are NOT for beginners.
I know this comment was last year but I hope you enjoyed performing this variation! Thanks for taking the time to comment ☺️
This was really fun to learn! I’d love it if you did more videos on pointe!
Thank you so much Emilia, I will! :)
Awesome!please please please do the waltz of the snowflakes !
On the list for next Christmas! :)
I loved this please do more
Where in the music are you starting? I really liked this "variation" and might use it for a class.
Thank you Anna! Sorry I don't have the music with me right now but if you work back from the end, you'll find it. I took the last section of the music :)
Really liked this. Thank you.
yay! Thank you :)
Hi Natalie! I absolutely love this. I will be teaching this to my pointe students tonight. When does the actual routine begin in the music? I can’t seem to time it just right. Thank you!
Hi Miranda, so sorry for the very late reply! I hope you figured it out. It’s around one minute from the end of the piece 🤗
I learnt this dance in my dance class it’s so beautiful but a lot of hard work
amazing! It is definitely harder than it looks! :)
oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Jasmin Saunders 😂😂 why
@@leyahbc3703 oh yeah
So pretty! Thank you! More pointe videos would be great!
Thanks Danielle, I will be making more pointe videos soon! :)
Hi amazing job! What time did you start this section in Waltz of the Flowers? I’m thinking of trying it out.
Hey lovely, it depends on the recording as they are played at different speeds but usually around 1 minute before the end of the track 🤗
You helped me a lot cause I did this for a performance
Amazing! Congratulations :)
Oh that's my goal too I will definitely try
yay! Thanks lovely! :)
LOVE IT!!!
Thank you! :)
Thank you! More pointe videos please!
Hi Natalie I am having a look at your videos concerning Nutcracker. I think Balancé is the way the teacher refers to a pas de valtz when being en face...Un beso y muchas gracias por tus vídeos
Oh thank you for letting me know Carolina! Can't wait to meet you at the workshop! :)
Hey can you do a waltz of the flowers variation for beginners?
You could do this in soft ballet shoes and it could work as a beginner variation :) maybe I can try to film one in soft shoes :)
beautiful. I`m too old for toe-tip shoes, but this is great!
Thank you! By the way, if pointe is really something you'd love to do, it's never too late to work towards going on pointe with a good ballet teacher :)
Tak you so much
Yayyyy! Thank you!
thank you!
You're welcome!
Thanks for this. Going to try it, I still battle with my relevé passe. Do you have any tips eg bring toes under etc?
Thanks Kate! You could always do a lower passé (just below the knee is also correct). Best thing I think is to practice it without touching your toes to your leg at all, that way you ensure you're using all the strength in your legs. Also stretching in the middle splits will help with the turn out :)
Requesting part 2
THANK YOU🙏, this video is lovely🥰, I totally enjoyed it! Thanks again, I appreciate it! ☺️xx
Nice
Where do I start the music
Would you tried the red soes
Is there anyway you could film it all the way through the dance with music from the back of you??
It's very hard to dance In a point shoes because I'm in a point shoes and I can't do it
More en pointe!!! Please teach the who variation!
4:25
this is awesome. could you please show this from the back? it'll be way much better to understand the coreography.
More dances on pointe!!
noted! thank you :)
7-21 I've been doing ballet
awesome! :)
Can you dance Beauty and the Beast? :) (Birmingham Royal Ballet)
I've never seen it, I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the idea :)
Thank you! :)
Pretty please do a tutorial for emboite and chaine turns en pointe. 🙏💗
It's coming next week!!!!! :)
@@NatalieDanzaBallet Great, thanks. 💙💙💙
Please do it with bluebird
thanks for the idea :)
Natalie Danza Ballet welcome omgggg, u could do it with la fille too!!!!!