Hi Katie, I have a video request/idea. Would you be able to do one on tips for adults who have an office/desk job, how to avoid tightening up muscles when sitting and exercises you can do at your desk etc. thanks, Natalie xx
You can do all kinds of upper body stretching & strengthening in a chair, and you can do strengthening for your toes & arches. You can do some upper leg stretch when you go to the kitchen - grab your heel behind you & stretch out the front of your thigh. (Sometimes if I can find a box that's tall enough & it fits under my desk, I can put my foot on that & do some back of the leg, low-back stretches one leg at a time.)
Thank you so much for the nice tips, I've had to do this in a lot of different genres and I've struggled a lot with it, especially the height and getting out my leg fast enough without losing the "power" of the plie. On a side note - you're looking wonderful lately, I'm really happy with the progress you've made with your condition, two of my fellow dancers here have the same problems and it always helps to have a reference/advice.
Can you please do a video on how to do super fast footwork, at barre and center and a video on the differences between battu, petite battement, any other fast beating steps (during frappe exercises)? Also I would love to see more Balanchine technique vids and commentaries. 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖
Hi Kathryn, that was a very helpful video. You're a great teacher :) Now i know there already was a grand jete video, but maybe you could do a part 2 or just make it longer? It's a thing that many girls including me struggle with and I cant get a good tip from my ballet teacher, her advices just dont help me. I don't know what else to do, i'm very flexible and still my grand jete is just horrible...
This helped me so so much. I used it class last night and the teacher used me as an example for the rest of the class. thank you so so much. I love you.you are a great teacher
Literally the video i need atm! Im a term away from doing my intermediate exam and cannot seem to do these in allegro 2 so these tips will hopefully help thanks xxx
Unfortunately I have to do these with one arm down and another in a low 2nd. Doing it with in arabesque arm would probably be way easier! Do you have any advice for how to lean forward more with out sticking your pelvis out? I have tight hips and am afraid to lean forward too much because I can't hold it. Thanks so much for this video! If you could do a video on grande rond de jambe that would be amazing!!!!! Love you!!!!
Thank you, once again, for all of your videos. I would be really grateful if you could make a video regarding how to maintain the fluidity and continuity on everything that needs to be made more than once. I find it very difficult to turn my head in continuity especially on tours chaînés déboulés and multiple pirouettes.
Can you do a video on Italian pas de chat (when I looked it up, I also saw some people calling it grand pas de chat)? I missed a couple of weeks of a class and when I went back, they had started Italian pas de chats and I was so confused. To make it worse, we were going one at a time so everyone could see how stupid I looked😬😅
Wow you really getting in shape🌻!,,,,! Also when I was teaching bride one must watch carefully that the second foot heel does not turn in. Always always the devil is in the details if you watch Darcie kissers brides in bournanvilles William tell when she does them in circle at lightening speed there is not one turned in moment , she's over her legs , and all her focus seems to be bring back thigh over front . Breathtaking!
Great video! I have a question though....what is the difference between a brisé and cabriole? Besides the leaning in a brisé I never am able to see the difference
The easiest way to practice the "brise", as I learned, is to do this in "temps leve" position. That is, you are in second or 1st position, plie, and rocket into a jump (jete or saut) and you do the quick brushes on either leg, toes touching the calf several times lightly "l'air" (this would be called "temps leve brise"), then you land in either 5th position crossed or 1st position uncrossed.
Temps leve - means any jump that you do is in place - no turn at all. If there is a turn, I would call this a "temps leve en tournant", and the easiest turn in the air is a 1/2 turn or 1/4 turn.
I'm in pointe since may i think and i been using the same pair of shoes since then and now i feel like they are too soft or doesn't fit my foot properly. Since the beggining i feel like that wasn't the best brand or type of shoe for me and my feets but that was what the teacher ask for (grishko 2007 pro flex) i know i don't have the enough experiense to know when they are dead but it doesn't feel confortable, it's more difficult to go up and stay in balance, now in the last days i struggle in pointe. In one of the shoes when i stand on pointe i feel the floor, like one little part of the tip of the shoe is more soft (too soft) (it's where my big toe is) but the low part of the shoe(box) stills hard but the one it more in the beggining of the box is not hard at all. My shoes do a strange Sound when i dance or when i warm up a I being seeing a lot of dead pointe shoes(videos) and there are worst than mines and others say that if the box is still hard its okay. Pointe shoes are expensive and i can't say "my pointe shoes are dead let's go and buy new ones". What should i do? I know i have to tell this to my teacher but maybe it's just me and being dramatic or i don't know. Here in my country usually the teacher say to you the brand that you have to use and you go and buy that one specific shoe. I know my english it's a little bad but i speak spanish. Kathryn i love the way you dance and your videos help me a lot if you can do a video talking about dead shoes :) please 💕 that would be so helpful
I didn't even know brisé was a thing until a couple weeks ago when my teacher put them in a combo lmao 😂 have you done a video on cabriole* and maybe kinda explain the differences between essamblé* and brisé? They seem kind of similar but different and I get them confused sometimes *sorry if I spelled the names wrong I'm too lazy to google it lmao
Thanks! This is so helpful. Have you done one on brise vole? I’m a modern dancer and have encountered it in company class a couple of times and have no idea what’s going on! Other online tutorials are too fast too. Thanks :)
Hey Katie! Next time you do a A&Q maybe if you have time, you would mind please answering this question... At NYCB how often do promotions happen for dancers? Is it every spring, or random? And is there a limit to how many principles and soloists there are? Thanks!!:)
It’s a lift from under. The bottom leg kicks up the top leg and if you have to bend in 2 for that to happen then so be it. Right? The bottom leg is the root. You must know the root for each step in ballet. What would be the pointe if not?
Hey Katie! I was curious if you could do a video talking about effective and helpful methods of choreographing and teaching choreography for non-dancers or beginner dancers? I'm a musical theatre dancer who has recently started being asked to choreograph for local productions. I'm finding it difficult to translate "dancer speak", if you will, to my actors-who-move and I'm trying to figure out how to make things click more quickly and keep my actors from becoming frustrated.
My teacher actually have me some choreography and put brises in it but never actually told me how to do it, I had no idea you were supposed to lean forward I. Them
Love the video! Learning another step on my journey to understanding ballet techniques & steps. Thank you! Have a question though - Have you watched any of the World Ballet Day 2017 videos here on TH-cam?
Hi Kathryn! Thank you for the video and you pointed out some corrections that I didn't realize. Could you clarify is it suppose to lean forward as the direction you going, or lean forward but have chest turn away from brushing leg?
Lovely brises!! And amazing video! When do you think variations will be out? :) You replied to me saying your working on it, the excitement is just... I'm making a sound I don't know how to type but YAY!
Love your videos!!, do you have any videos on jete and sauté arabesque? Specifically for jete I learned two methods (not sure either are correct), first was the brush jump into the air stretching both legs then land in cuppe, 2nd was brush jump but try and get the cuppe on the way up thus showing the cuppe position in the air (vice at landing)… i like the second one better if it is correct?. For sauté arabesque, I was always taught to try and land the sauté in arabesque to show the line longer and then quick fi through vice dropping the arabesque to early on the way down anticipating the next step. Thoughts? Thanks much.
Have you got any tips how not to beat up one's ankles when doing brisés? I'd always get bruises on my ankles and I can't figure out why I can't stop doing it, since I don't have the problem with other petit batterie...
could someone help me figure out something ? theres a step I learned in class and I can't for the life of me remember the name (I'm on a break from dance atm), you start how you would in a chaine but in plie, you bring your feet together in 3rd/5th releve, I'm not sure, turn and then you're back to the start position in plie to go again ? its grade 6 if that helps
Thank you so much for the tips! Could you please help me with arabesque hops (not really hops they're more of little slides) I'm sorry I don't know how they're called but there's a lot of them done by the Willis in Giselle and by swans in swan lake act 2 coda (before Odette comes out). I hope you get what I mean, if you could help me that'd be wonderful!💞
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Please do tips on not hopping in pirouettes and not being scared of doing multiple pirouettes! X
misskirstyyy Yess I need this I hop wayyy too much
You have such a nice, clear teaching style. By the way, you look terrific!
Thank you Lauren!
Hi Katie, I have a video request/idea. Would you be able to do one on tips for adults who have an office/desk job, how to avoid tightening up muscles when sitting and exercises you can do at your desk etc. thanks, Natalie xx
Natalie love this suggestion
Natalie h
You can do all kinds of upper body stretching & strengthening in a chair, and you can do strengthening for your toes & arches. You can do some upper leg stretch when you go to the kitchen - grab your heel behind you & stretch out the front of your thigh. (Sometimes if I can find a box that's tall enough & it fits under my desk, I can put my foot on that & do some back of the leg, low-back stretches one leg at a time.)
Plz do more Balanchine technique videos!!! Love you so much!! 💖
brise is cabrioles harder cousin
You did not go for the easter egg mermaidy long skirt
you're such a terrific teacher, Katy!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for the nice tips, I've had to do this in a lot of different genres and I've struggled a lot with it, especially the height and getting out my leg fast enough without losing the "power" of the plie.
On a side note - you're looking wonderful lately, I'm really happy with the progress you've made with your condition, two of my fellow dancers here have the same problems and it always helps to have a reference/advice.
Can you please do a video on how to do super fast footwork, at barre and center and a video on the differences between battu, petite battement, any other fast beating steps (during frappe exercises)? Also I would love to see more Balanchine technique vids and commentaries. 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖 💖
Hi Kathryn, that was a very helpful video. You're a great teacher :)
Now i know there already was a grand jete video, but maybe you could do a part 2 or just make it longer? It's a thing that many girls including me struggle with and I cant get a good tip from my ballet teacher, her advices just dont help me. I don't know what else to do, i'm very flexible and still my grand jete is just horrible...
Thank you my brise were terrible and I couldn’t do it . Tried your tips works soooo much better
First thing I thought ... "ah, she didn't go for the Easter-egg" 😊😉
Haha nope. It looked to crazy on camera :)
Funny to see how many commented on this video with the Easter-egg ...
Btw this is yet an other great how-to ballet video.
This helped me so so much. I used it class last night and the teacher used me as an example for the rest of the class. thank you so so much. I love you.you are a great teacher
Katie, you look absolutely stunning in this video! I can see why you felt ballet was "coming back to you" like you said in your vlog. So lovely!!
It’s great to see you demonstrate what you mean. Makes life so much easier for Granny Penny over here in London xxxxxxx
i’ve been confused about these for the longest time but this video really helped me understand the physics behind it. thanks!
Your how-not-to demos are so cute! Of course, your how-tos are gorgeous, but the wrong ways are just comical.
Literally the video i need atm! Im a term away from doing my intermediate exam and cannot seem to do these in allegro 2 so these tips will hopefully help thanks xxx
Hello Kathryn ! Awesome thank you so much for your tutorial I need to achieve brisés for a choreography :))
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
Unfortunately I have to do these with one arm down and another in a low 2nd. Doing it with in arabesque arm would probably be way easier!
Do you have any advice for how to lean forward more with out sticking your pelvis out? I have tight hips and am afraid to lean forward too much because I can't hold it. Thanks so much for this video! If you could do a video on grande rond de jambe that would be amazing!!!!! Love you!!!!
How would you do brisé volé?
Thank you, once again, for all of your videos. I would be really grateful if you could make a video regarding how to maintain the fluidity and continuity on everything that needs to be made more than once. I find it very difficult to turn my head in continuity especially on tours chaînés déboulés and multiple pirouettes.
ultimately ALWAYS about the plie. Great job KM!
You're so great at explaining things! I wish I lived nearby to take classes from you!
Can you do a video on Italian pas de chat (when I looked it up, I also saw some people calling it grand pas de chat)? I missed a couple of weeks of a class and when I went back, they had started Italian pas de chats and I was so confused. To make it worse, we were going one at a time so everyone could see how stupid I looked😬😅
Thank you!!! Very helpful. (I’m late watching this, but was one of those who asked for brise tips and wanted to say that I appreciate it!)
Wow you really getting in shape🌻!,,,,! Also when I was teaching bride one must watch carefully that the second foot heel does not turn in. Always always the devil is in the details if you watch Darcie kissers brides in bournanvilles William tell when she does them in circle at lightening speed there is not one turned in moment , she's over her legs , and all her focus seems to be bring back thigh over front . Breathtaking!
The thumbnail is so beautiful!
This is so helpful thank you!
Hi Katie! Thank you so much for this video! I have always struggled with brisé so your video really helped me! Could you please do one on brisé vole?
I have been binging all of your videos and they are so amazing and helpful!
Great video! I have a question though....what is the difference between a brisé and cabriole? Besides the leaning in a brisé I never am able to see the difference
The easiest way to practice the "brise", as I learned, is to do this in "temps leve" position. That is, you are in second or 1st position, plie, and rocket into a jump (jete or saut) and you do the quick brushes on either leg, toes touching the calf several times lightly "l'air" (this would be called "temps leve brise"), then you land in either 5th position crossed or 1st position uncrossed.
Temps leve - means any jump that you do is in place - no turn at all. If there is a turn, I would call this a "temps leve en tournant", and the easiest turn in the air is a 1/2 turn or 1/4 turn.
I'm in pointe since may i think and i been using the same pair of shoes since then and now i feel like they are too soft or doesn't fit my foot properly. Since the beggining i feel like that wasn't the best brand or type of shoe for me and my feets but that was what the teacher ask for (grishko 2007 pro flex) i know i don't have the enough experiense to know when they are dead but it doesn't feel confortable, it's more difficult to go up and stay in balance, now in the last days i struggle in pointe. In one of the shoes when i stand on pointe i feel the floor, like one little part of the tip of the shoe is more soft (too soft) (it's where my big toe is) but the low part of the shoe(box) stills hard but the one it more in the beggining of the box is not hard at all. My shoes do a strange Sound when i dance or when i warm up a I being seeing a lot of dead pointe shoes(videos) and there are worst than mines and others say that if the box is still hard its okay. Pointe shoes are expensive and i can't say "my pointe shoes are dead let's go and buy new ones". What should i do? I know i have to tell this to my teacher but maybe it's just me and being dramatic or i don't know. Here in my country usually the teacher say to you the brand that you have to use and you go and buy that one specific shoe. I know my english it's a little bad but i speak spanish. Kathryn i love the way you dance and your videos help me a lot if you can do a video talking about dead shoes :) please 💕 that would be so helpful
Thanks for your clear explanation on brise, Kathryn. Would you mind demonstrating faille as well. Cheers
I didn't even know brisé was a thing until a couple weeks ago when my teacher put them in a combo lmao 😂 have you done a video on cabriole* and maybe kinda explain the differences between essamblé* and brisé? They seem kind of similar but different and I get them confused sometimes
*sorry if I spelled the names wrong I'm too lazy to google it lmao
Well I guess you decided against the eastereggy long skirt😂😘
Haha yep. Didn't work!
The black skirt works better because it's short and we can see Katie's legs and her beautiful brises!!!
Oh the short skirt looks so much prettier and elegant but Katie looks lovely whatever she wears.
Can you do an updated follow along warmup routine? I love your videos!
Thanks! This is so helpful. Have you done one on brise vole? I’m a modern dancer and have encountered it in company class a couple of times and have no idea what’s going on! Other online tutorials are too fast too. Thanks :)
Could you please do a video on how to be more soft footed in pointe shoes?
Helpful video.Can you do a video on getting good turnout and strengthening plies?That blue really suits you.
Katie, you look great! Thanks for this tutorial, it's really helpful, i've never nailed a good brise and your tips are truly useful!!!!
Hi Katie! Your outfits are always so cute.. would you consider writing out your outfit details for each video? :)
yes, you help a lot. thank you thank you. I really need it
Hey Katie! Next time you do a A&Q maybe if you have time, you would mind please answering this question... At NYCB how often do promotions happen for dancers? Is it every spring, or random? And is there a limit to how many principles and soloists there are? Thanks!!:)
Can you do a video on frappés (both on flat and on relevé)? I just can't seem to get my feet to move that fast!
It’s a lift from under. The bottom leg kicks up the top leg and if you have to bend in 2 for that to happen then so be it. Right? The bottom leg is the root. You must know the root for each step in ballet. What would be the pointe if not?
Love the cover photo for this video!! ❤
3 views, 3 likes: Just how it should be! :)
Ahh I needed this when I did odilesques in June!
Your videos always help me a lot! Thanks so much.❤️
Hey Katie! I was curious if you could do a video talking about effective and helpful methods of choreographing and teaching choreography for non-dancers or beginner dancers? I'm a musical theatre dancer who has recently started being asked to choreograph for local productions. I'm finding it difficult to translate "dancer speak", if you will, to my actors-who-move and I'm trying to figure out how to make things click more quickly and keep my actors from becoming frustrated.
Please, can you do a video about how to improve a cabriole also?
Hi Katie! Could you please do a video on the Balanchine waltz step?! Love your videos so much! Xoxo 💖
Love this series! Cabriole technique please :)
My teacher actually have me some choreography and put brises in it but never actually told me how to do it, I had no idea you were supposed to lean forward I. Them
you look amazing! and you are a great teacher. thanks as always
Love the video! Learning another step on my journey to understanding ballet techniques & steps. Thank you!
Have a question though - Have you watched any of the World Ballet Day 2017 videos here on TH-cam?
Hi Kathryn! Thank you for the video and you pointed out some corrections that I didn't realize. Could you clarify is it suppose to lean forward as the direction you going, or lean forward but have chest turn away from brushing leg?
Thank you so much, this video helped me a ton!!! Brisés are much better :D
Lovely brises!! And amazing video! When do you think variations will be out? :) You replied to me saying your working on it, the excitement is just... I'm making a sound I don't know how to type but YAY!
What about backwards? X
Thanks so much for making this video! I've had trouble doing my brisés clean so this helps!❤️
Glad this helps!
No Easter egg. Great video as always!
Thank you!
Thank you so much..need this!!
See the possibility of you making a video about heels for men. I'm from Brazil!
Hello, can you do a video on how to control your shoulders
Love your videos!!, do you have any videos on jete and sauté arabesque? Specifically for jete I learned two methods (not sure either are correct), first was the brush jump into the air stretching both legs then land in cuppe, 2nd was brush jump but try and get the cuppe on the way up thus showing the cuppe position in the air (vice at landing)… i like the second one better if it is correct?. For sauté arabesque, I was always taught to try and land the sauté in arabesque to show the line longer and then quick fi through vice dropping the arabesque to early on the way down anticipating the next step. Thoughts? Thanks much.
Wow you are extraordinary. I look up to you! x
Thank you ❤️
Hi Kathryn! Could you please do another dancer pilates? Love you
Katie, can you recommend which are the best ballet magazines?
life saver!
Have you got any tips how not to beat up one's ankles when doing brisés? I'd always get bruises on my ankles and I can't figure out why I can't stop doing it, since I don't have the problem with other petit batterie...
For the Giselle peasant pas de deux, my teacher had us do a brisé to a tendu, then relève to arabesque. Do you have any tips for helping with that?
are you beating your thighs/feet together, so they touch, or is it like a royale, where it goes front to back?
Could you do a video on Balloné, please?
Meilleure explication
I was waiting for this, thanks😍
Of course!
How do u do brisè volè
This would have been so helpful when I was doing ballet...30 years ago. :D
It is possible to do "brise" in "poisson" position? Or no? That is, as you leap, you are in a sort of fish or mermaid position in the air....?
Gracias!!!!
maybe do a video on chaine and pique turns? :(
You look so beautiful Katie! Tell me your secrets!!
I need help with relevè in arabesque on pointe and also jumps on pointe
Is the leg brushing to the side or straight front?
Does anyone know what microphone Katy uses? I remember her saying she got a clip on
Love it
Can you do one on saut de basque please? :)
could someone help me figure out something ? theres a step I learned in class and I can't for the life of me remember the name (I'm on a break from dance atm), you start how you would in a chaine but in plie, you bring your feet together in 3rd/5th releve, I'm not sure, turn and then you're back to the start position in plie to go again ? its grade 6 if that helps
Have you ever struggled with a shin splint?
Im so frustrated I can't improve my jumps without suffering from this
Rock Star !
Is brisé more difficult than saut de chat?
Thank you so much for the tips! Could you please help me with arabesque hops (not really hops they're more of little slides) I'm sorry I don't know how they're called but there's a lot of them done by the Willis in Giselle and by swans in swan lake act 2 coda (before Odette comes out). I hope you get what I mean, if you could help me that'd be wonderful!💞
Arabesque hops...?
Ollivanders1876 Clisades?
oh lord when I do those it sounds like a herd of elephants is invading :D
Chugs
Temps glisser I think?
Please break down the main step.
I suck at making my landing graceful
I’m studying this right now and let me tell you that the failed attempts have me screaming. 😆
The inner sides of my knees bang together in brisé...
Can u pls do pas de deux tips