Thank you so much, I would LOVE an entire series for the older beginner 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🙂🙂🙂

Adult beginner here. Thank you SO much for this, it's going to help me practice while class is closed in december

Claudia if you replied to this I would go crazy 😜 I joined ballet as a baby and then quit cos I had no interest in it. Then I fell in love with it again at aged 10. I went to the perfect studio for me. I was part of a small class which meant I got more one on one attention and caught up quickly. However just before our grade 3 exam our studio closed devastatingly. I tried a few studios and gated them all. So I gave up looking. But then in September I rediscovered your channel and it inspired me to get back into it. So on Wednesday I went to a new studio. I adored it and my best friend from my old studio was in the same class. I’ve joined at quite a bad time as the others are doing their exam in a few weeks however my teacher was so impressed with my ability to pick up and my technique that she is allowing me to skip and move up to grade 5 with the other girls which means I’ll be starting pointe work!!!! This is honestly thanks to you and your videos. They helped me learn terminology and keep my technique up. Thanks so much Claudia ❤️💓❤️💓 Edit: oh my gosh thank you so much Claudia for replying and thanks for all the likes xxx

Adult beginner here and this is the perfect video for me to use for practice while between classes. Very informative and easy to follow along. Thanks Claudia!

Adult beginner here. Thank you so much for this! I have a foot injury and my podiatrist recommended taking a barre class to build up my muscles again and I never realised how much of a work out it is! Will never underestimate ballet again

Another adult beginner here. More like this, please! I can only get to one class a week, so being able to practice between classes will make such a difference. I love your teaching style.

Yes! I think that is a brilliant thought! To do a follow up as a second part of this tutorial. I've been dancing for several years. Yet, it's enjoyable to follow along as you clearly emphasize the positions of our head in alignment to our porte de bras, the stance of our hips and leg muscles all properly coordinate with the execution of each step . We sometimes we do these exercises so often, we get a bit sloppy and run thru them to quickly.

Hello Claudia, false adult beginner from France here. Thank you so much for what you're doing, your amazing up-beat spirit and generosity. I've just tried this follow along today, it was brilliant ! Don't hesitate to do some more. Catherine.

Thank you Claudia!! I used to dance 6 hours a week until last year when I had a serious accident and had to stop, but my physio said today that I could go back to ballet basics to work up my strength again and this video is exactly what I need!

Thanks so much for this video. I would love to see more barre classes, please.

Thank you so much. Perfect for a re-start after 25 years ;-)

Adult coming back to Ballet here. It's my second day doing this barre sequence. I will do it 'till I get it right, so I can move to your intermediate video and so on...Thank you so much for this channel!

Thank you so much! I didn't do ballet for so long and with the virus out there , it vas the best moment to restart! Thanks again!

You did a fantastic job of providing relevant commentary on form--it's hard when you don't have a teacher to "correct" you in class. I'm trying to "come back" after a long pandemic period of relative inactivity. I was so weak that I couldn't do anything without pain, not even what I used to do for warmups. This was fun, and has also made knee pain that'd just appeared from this week's "prehab" exercises disappear. I used to do a ballet set by myself 1-3 days a week, but I really love your videos and plan to continue to follow along with them! Eventually, when I'm able to go back into a class, I'll still be following your classes on my days off. Thank you! And thank you for reminding me why I love dance and ballet

I danced for fifteen years and had to stop for college. After taking last year off I've since come back to dance but this time to teach. Your videos are helping me so much both so I can get back into the groove of dancing again and so I have content I can use on my dancers. I appreciate your work so much, thank you for doing what you do!

Oh so happy with this video!!! Going to try it first thing tomorrow morning! Thank you sooo much!

i really appreciate these barre exercises. returning to basic ballet after YEARSSSS to help my foundation before going into college as a dance major. feel free to post as many beginner exercises as you want

Hello Miss Dean, I have so enjoyed you beginner lessons.I particularly appreciate how you teach the technical aspect and review that before each new segment.I am 53 have always wanted to dance ans started at 50!!!I am hoping you put together some more beginner lessons!!!! Thank you again!!!!🤗

You are my morning exercise everyday during this isolation period. Teaching has kept me so busy 12-13 hours a day plus getting older. I really needed o dance again. Day 3 and my balance is better. Bless you.

Thanks a bunch! I did ballet as a kid twice a week but i did not really like it anymore, but this is a super vid to fresh up things and get active!

Thank you, I’ve gotten tired of my workout routines, so having this ballet workout was different and fun

So many beginner videos are absolutely too hard or in realness intermediate with a ballerina who does everthing so high. This is a real beginner barre. Thank you!!

Thank you very very very much! I've learned a lot. You are the best! In my opinion only professionals who have a true gift for what they do can give away great tips as you do, it makes a lot of difference to adults beginners online. Your love to ballet and pleasure and ability teaching it, inspire and get us many levels up in technique and drive to carry on learning. Best wishes and greetings from Brazil.

Thank you so much for doing just the Barre because I haven't danced in over 6 years and I always loved doing the Barre do I'm glad to have an opportunity to do it again

I have my grade 3 ballet exam tomorrow and I’m so nervous but you have helped me get better with technique and my ballet teacher gives me hardly any corrections. The only thing I’m not okay at is the made up exercises depending on what she choreographs because I’m not great at picking up. I really want to do pointe but you do that grade 5 at my school and I’m already 15 and have to leave when I’m 18 unless I go to the college but I only take one style of dance so the college won’t be good for me. So I’m afraid I’ll never get to dance on pointe like I’ve always dreamed of. What makes it worse is my friend goes to ballet and at her school they let her do pointe in grade 4. So she’s started and it makes me want to start more. Hopefully I pass this exam and in a years time I’ll do grade 4 and then get to do pointe

Thank you Claudia!!! This is so perfect for adults like me! I danced all through my childhood and teenage years, but stopped after university. I still love ballet though and watch all your videos! It's so fun to get to dance with you! 😊❤️

Im not a beginner but I've been using this as a warmup before rehearsals and its great

Adult ex ballet dancer here. Love the barre, I’ve subscribed would be great ti get another with alternative exercises! Thank you 🙏🏽

That was wonderful! I did ballet decades ago...

Loved the video! If possible could you please do an advanced version? Thank you so much!

Thank you so much Claudia 🥳 returning to my first love after a 20 year break and simply can’t stop smiling 👯‍♂️👯‍♂️👯‍♂️

Super great for quarntine!!!

Thank you! This is perfect practice for at home in between classes. Great pacing and easy to follow along. I would love to see some other routines for beginners!

Such a good teacher and such a beautiful dancer! Thank you for breaking it down for us!

Yes,please!More barre work.Thank you for your teaching.

This is excellent & by far the best beginner’s/novice’s video I have found. (Useful for getting back into Novice level ballet after, in my case, a 30-year break)!

Hi Claudia, could you do a video on which muscles you need to stretch and strengthen to transition from 3rd to 5th position -or to get from 5th to flat 5th. And what your top tips are? I know it's about turnout, but I think there must be more to it because I can get decent turn out en l'air but I've never had a good 5th.

Thank you so much for this! I used to dance and I absolutely loved it, but five years ago I had to quit. I'm hoping to be able to start again in a year or two, though, and I'm so excited for that and have wanted to start getting in shape again. Yesterday I found your intermediate Barre and couldn't quite make it through, but I was able to do this one just fine! Hopefully in a week or two I can work back up to that intermediate Barre!

I loved this! I have done ballet in about 30 years! It was so fun! Thanks.

As a gymnast trying to build up my ballet foundation this is so helpful

Could you do this in a longer version like 1 or 2 hour. Please!!! I have waited for this so long!! :) Thanks a lot

I haven't taken a ballet class since I was thirteen--I'm thirty-one, so that was eighteen years ago--but I just did the first eight-and-a-quarter minutes of this (finished the battement glissés, which I messed up spectacularly), and that was all I could handle--and I'm someone who dances regularly (a mix of a lot of things, including ballet)! If I keep doing this, I'll be in really good shape by the time the pandemic ends. Also, it's really obvious that my right side is my weaker side.

Would love to see some more beginner tutorials - barre and also centre exercises! I got to grade 5 when I was younger, but after a few years off I am getting back into dancing. These videos are great to do at home between classes!

Beautiful dancer! Beautiful training! Beautiful music!

OML! I HAVE NEVER BEEN THIS EARLY! I LOVE YOU CLAUDIA!

Honestly one of the best beginner barre videos i've watched

I hope you've got plans for a beginner centre soon...this one is really helpful for me because I'm coming back from *really* severe (non dance-related) injuries, and I haven't been cleared to do grand plies or doing single-leg squats or plies on my injured side yet.

Hola Claudia, me encantan tus vídeos, como explicas en detalle la técnica, gracias por enseñar y difundir el arte del ballet. Saludos desde Argentina. 🇦🇷

Super handy to have this in circus school for aerial dance to supplement my weekly classes.Love your work claudia!

I don’t do ballet at a studio but I have the passion, thank you for posting this it’s really great that I can do this at home

Yes I would love another barre video please

Hi Claudia, Thank you so much for giving comments on how to do these movements properly and how to think about them as we do them. I’ve been to many ballet classes but I still don’t know which toe to put the weight over or how the hips should sit etc. . However, when you do the Centre classes could you do them with you in front of us like a real class so we see you from behind. It is so hard to know which arm and which leg when we watch you from the front facing us....you are turning and switching feet and it would be so nice to be able to follow you as though we are standing behind you and doing the movements with you as you are doing it. It so hard to watch the phone and to follow and try to get what you are doing. You are great and generous with your love of ballet. Thanks so much.

Loved this tutorial! You're such a great coach, I've learned a lot from your videos. Thank you so much, Claudia! ❤

this video is perfect for me to practice while i look for a ballet school 💖💖

Yay! Thank you so much! I’ve been looking forward to you doing one! And so jealous of your turnout!😍

Beautiful lesson

I loved this! It was easy to follow along and physically challenging. Would love to see more like this!

This is awesome, thank you! I’ve been kinda obsessed with ‘learning’ ballet but si can’t afford clases and now everything is closed. This is gonna be my entertainment during quarantine

Love this! More center work for adult ballet beginners please :)

Thank you for this video! Could you do more Intermediate center combinations??? Thxs soooo much!

I really like these follow along videos so please can you do some more!🎉

I love all your videos sooooo much!! 💕

I would love to take classes with you. Your explanations always help me. If only... ♥

This is SO helpful, especially right now! Thank you!

such a good barre routine for beginners, i liked your intermediate one a lot but sometimes i found it bits of it very challenging so i like that i have this one too ❤️❤️

Fantástic! Love this video, it would be awesome id you continue this series! Thank you😃

May I suggest a video about HEAD POSITIONS? Like a "part 2" of this, with some particularities to make it a little more complex.

Hi Ms.Claudia I have a few questions about ballet. 1. Do you need ribbons for your ballet flats? 2. How do I find the right studio or teacher for me? 3. For a person who has very little experience in ballet, do you think it would be hard to learn the basics of dancing? Thanks in advanced for answering my questions 😊 I love you and your videos in which have inspired me to try something new.

Thank you! :)

Thank you! I loved this! Being stuck in the house I needed this so much to keep from getting hurt!

I also would love a a video for older beginners

This is going to help me with my barre. Going to practice

Why didn’t I have a teacher like you?? 😁

Thanks, I loved it!!!

I am SO loving your classes! Are you coming to London any time soon?

Thanks so much, added this to my playlist of things to do at home ☺️

I really need more videos like this!

Thank you for this warm up! Adult dancer getting back in the game thanks to Quarantine Fever! I would LOVE more beginner/intermediate classes to follow along with! Thank you!!! P.S.-Love the music!

really need more videos like this !

loved this. More, please. a stretching class would be great, too! Since being quarantined, I'm doing all your barre classes. I can't tell you what a lifesaver your videos are. The slow and beginning barres are great for those of us working with injuries and slowly getting back to speed. Very grateful. Thank you!!

This is so helpful! I've been wanting to get back into ballet recently but my new teacher has hurt her foot badly !

Thank you so much Claudia! I'm an adult ballet beginner and this will help me so much with my at-home practice! Your advice is particularly detailed and so helpful for working on proper form and placement. I can't wait for more content! I love your videos - your enthusiasm and positive attitude are so encouraging and inspiring!

Loved it!!

love this ! tho my ironing board is shaking abit because i dont have a bar available.

Another beginner bare would be great!

Many ‘Beginner’ videos do not explain turn out first of all: how the bottom muscles are held to keep it & the quads are pulled up, as she says. (When knees are bent they should be well in line with the middle of the foot). Most beginners of course have nowhere near the ballet dancer’s turn out, but prob only about 45 degrees.

The video: 20 minutes Me: oh it’s small Also me: repeating all the sequences five times

I am using this video as extra practice for my ballet. It was great, I loved it. Being 11 however, I would have appreciated more instruction in order to follow your moves better and more precise.

Please do more adult barre (esp. petits battements) and centre while we're all in lockdown!

Hiii Claudio can you make a vid of what to pack for a summer intensives I’m thinking going for one over the summer 🙂

I missed ballet so much!

Hi Claudia! I’m so excited for the launch of your new leotard collection. I was just wondering whether the collection will be available at Bloch or just on your website. I know that the Candyland Collection was so I was just wondering whether the Autumn one will be too. Thanks.

I love It! I will do these exercises. can you make and intermediate level? Regards from Mexico!

Claudia, where I can find the music??for exercices¿

Thank you!

Please can you do a video for terminology?? That would be such a great help 🤞

Thankyou for the class! For the calf raises, when you say keep the alignment towards the 3rd toe, does that mean focus on keeping that central/ putting the weight more on that toe?

Great barre, and nice accompaniment, too--thank you! I've only one question: I was taught that saying to "lock up the knees" can be risky, especially if the student has hyper-extended or problem knees. Might it be safer to say "pull up through the legs to straighten the knees " ? Just sayin' ;-) Cheers!

Hey Claudia!

Hello, Claudia! I have a question that I was hoping you could answer. I can do a 180 turnout during first position but not for fifth position. How can I achieve a closed fifth? Thank you. I hope you’d answer. Great tutorials as always, Claudia!