It’s not ballet, it’s Pas De-giorno 🤌🏻✨

Me, not a dancer: “she’s not over. Why is she en pointe in these shoes if she can’t get over the box?”

The saran wrap thing is to help warm up your calves really quickly in class. It keeps ALL the heat in so a lot of dancers with injuries might do this!

I've recently joined a Silver Swans ballet class at the age of 64. I haven't danced since I was 19. It is SUCH good fun!!

Honestly I needed that “you dont have to be good” speech, I went into ballet as a child when my mom noticed how much I loved watching anything related to it. But unfortunately she was forced to take me out of the class when the teacher pulled my mom aside and told her to put me of a strict diet of zero carbs I was **five**

My grandma tapped until about 5 years or so before she passed away. She had to stop because of some mini strokes she had which took away her balance. She was part of a senior tap group through the local community college for at least 10 years.

Coming back to ballet as an adult is such a great thing! When I quit ballet, my teacher told me that if I quit now I could never start it up again and nobody would take me and I've felt guilty about my decision since then but seeing so many people take ballet classes as adults and without recent training makes it look a lot less scary.

I wonder if Josephine would pass out from cuteness at a children's recital.

bro i swear every single time they do a 'trying pointe shoes as a beginner/self taught' they say 'yeah dont try this at home lmao only professionals should' WHY DID YOU DO IT THEN. UR CLEARLY MAKING MORE PPL DO IT.

I was literally just like "man... I wish there were more tiktok videos" not half an hour ago. Jo really is magical

I went back to adult ballet classes in my late 30's. Everybody else in the class were moms like me who had danced through their childhoods, but were never going to be professional dancers. It was actually one of the great joys of my life to dance without any pressure or expectation. I was so happy to go back.

i imagine the plastic wrap is to help with the warm up process since it wouldn't allow the heat from her muscles to escape as easily. You can also put like... tiger balm or whatever then wrap for even more FIYAH

The little peanut dancing got me good. She loves to dance and you can see it.

The “Dancer” that tried on pointe shoes in the seventh minute she is actually a professional cliff diver and she started doing ballet because she probably wanted to be more elegant when she jumps

The adult returning to ballet legit made me cry. I was in ballet from 6-13. I developed arthritis in my knees at 12 and was encouraged by my doctor to stop. So I did. I did some dance roles in some local theater productions in high school after that, but nothing major. Now I'm 46 with more arthritis, fibromyalgia, and Meniere's. I still wish I could return, but there are days I can barely walk, and turns are out of the question. But I still toy with the idea of trying an adult class. However, I would have to find a teacher who would really understand. Whatever. I still find myself 'dancing' in the kitchen while I grab a snack to watch ballet shows / movies. Hah.

The disappointment and horror on Josephine’s face when the girl said “Amazon” made me fall off my chair

It's so heartwarming to know that Josephine has seen like a million people on pointe in her life already, but still every time someone goes on pointe in these videos she's like "ohhh prettyyyy" and I love it

😂 she said “I hope your teacher watches this” the same way my mom used to say “I hope you have three just like you” when I was a kid and I ticked her off

Can we all take a second to appreciate Grandma's shoulder shake while she was tapping? Get it, Granny! Love every bit of it.

7:01 That's Molly Carlson, she's a pro high diver, she's a beast. But yeah, that was wild lmaooo.

Josephine reacting to Amber trying to teach Eva ballet - my worlds have collided. 😂 I hope you’ll do more of them, I love watching them work and “work”. 😁

I’m so happy to hear that you support adults wanting to return to ballet after not dancing for years. I started ballet at age 5 danced for 3 years. Then I transitioned to ice skating. I was preparing for the junior nationals & a hockey skater crashed into me & I crushed my knee. Needless to say, my ice skating career was over. I continued my music as a flute/piccolo player for 15 years. However, I never stopped loving ballet. I watch your videos to fuel my love for ballet. I would love to see a video of you dancing. I’m thinking of taking beginners ballet for exercise. Thank you for these lovely videos. Cheers 😉🌷

I started beginners ballet this year as someone who never got the chance to do it as a kid and I've been absolutely obsessed with everything ballet since. It's now a personal goal to work up to get on to pointe.

The partnering one sounded like a Green Earth Documentary 🤣

I’m obsessed with Eva😂❤ I feel like she’s bringing so much more attention to the art of ballet while also making it seem trendy. Brings a lot of inspiration to me wanting to get into ballet even though I’m plus sized.

As a former dancer (en pointe for almost 10 years) there is absolutely NO WAY I’d try pointe right away if I were to start dancing again 😭 gotta build up those muscles and flexibility again

Adult ballet is the greatest thing I have started. It’s genuinely healing and amazing

When I was younger, I was always asked how long I did ballet/gymnastics 😂 because my arches were perfect and I could balance on my toes and do random ballet moves that I copied off the TV. Wasn't until a few years later when I was diagnosed with hypermobility which suddenly explained why my body was always weirdly too flexibly for someone who never danced/did gym before

Adult returning to ballet sounds so awesome. I would love to get back into it myself. I would probably have to have any MRI done in my damaged foot to see what it looks like today. I stopped dancing after I was hit by a car as a pedestrian. I spent 2 months in physical therapy learning how to properly walk in my foot again. Only to have the blood clot that had formed in my ankle come loose five months later. I was told after the accident that I would never dance again. I've done a lot of you'll nevers since then. Now I wonder if I could even stand on releve on that foot again. 🤔

Love the friendship/teaching/humor of the two at 13:00!

I took dance when I was a child ... a small, small child. I am now 50, have amazing dancer arches and ankles due to EDS.| have dreams where I dance in pointe shoes. A small part of my brain says I could totally do that. The rest of my brain says I know it would be less than 5 minutes before I needed to call 911. I listen to that part.

That adult lady at 8:24 definitely looks as if it's one of the candidates from Germany's Next Top Model 2022, Martina 😀 first year they had some "best-ager" models on the show and she even made it to the finals I think ..... Fun fact: her literal daughter participated in the same year and won!

I've done the Saran Wrap thing when I was struggling with charley horses and such. I'd put Tiger Balm underneath, do barre with the plastic wrap under my warmups, then pull it off before centre. It helped with the calf cramping and then I could still do pointe instead of just being a mess of cramps by the end of class. It also helps when my knee is acting up but I need to dance. Having moved to New Orleans where Heat Is A Lifestyle, I'm not needing it as much. But in DC, it was necessary in the winters or when the AC got cranked up in August.

I actually just started ballet after little to no experience at the age of 20. The only dance experience I have is from the one year I was on drill team reserves for my middle school when I was 11.. I am having so much fun doing it and I genuinely love learning the different variations and doing the exercises and stretches..

I quit ballet after very badly dislocating and fracturing my knee in class after a growth spurt at 13. I’m 52 now and have been trying for years to find the confidence to go back. That woman has inspired me to do it. I know I’ll never reach what would have been my full potential as a dancer, but I love dance so desperately and even miss the discipline. I’ve been working for months in the gym to strengthen my body so that I can support that knee as well as possible. Wish me luck! To all the dancers who have suffered a career-ending injury, my heart goes out to you.

The 100 year old made me smile so big!! 😃 Her joy was contagious! 🤩

AHHHH love this! I love when dancers can openly say that they don’t want to be pro they just want to dance, that’s where I am currently and it makes me feel better to hear others say it’s ok not to be pro.

The "2 month of ballet class, pointe shoes from amazon" have me flashbacks of how I was teaching myself to stand on pointe with 2 actual pointe classes with a teacher, and they were like 9 years apart. The process could've gone so much faster... I'm still learning to stand properly, it was like 4 years already.

I only ever did ballet as a hobby - from 8-18. I loved it, but because I was never going to be professional and didn't fit the mould (big hips and boobs), my teacher never let me do pointe. I was doing one class a week and the other girls were doing three. I always felt left out. I'd love to try again. Thank you for your comments, they really help.

Back in the 80’s, we only had 3 choices of pointe shoes - 2 types of Capezio (the one I wore was the Nicolini) and a Freed. We also didn’t have very good fitters. I sewed loops of elastic on the back of my pointe shoe to loop my ribbons through so my shoe wouldn’t slip off every time I pointed my foot or went on pointe. (I am blessed/cursed with gorgeous arches). We didn’t know about Jet glue back then either. My parents would have appreciated that! My Freeds would die after a class and a rehearsal or two of “Peter and the Wolf.” This little duck felt every bit of dirt on the floor through the tips of those Freeds.

Those 2 girls practicing random moves they've seen remind me of my old dancing days with friends where the teacher would let us show up before or stay after lessons to just do things like that. That's precious.

I’m not a ballet dancer I’m a ballet folklorico dancer and 10:46 story was so true! I started at 5 stopped at 14 but always wanted to be back. Im 30and went back i tell myself everyday i don’t have to be good anymore I just have to love it. Best decision I’ve made for myself

I'm not a dancer and never have been, but these reactions are some of my favorite things! Found them by chance a few months ago and get so excited when new vids pop up on my home page. Please never stop. 😄

We always need longer ones like this.

"I dont have to be good, I just have to love it" is exactly the mentality I'm trying to teach myself. I danced from age 5-12 and loved it... but then I started getting depressed and gave up ballet. now at 20 I'm finding my spark again and finally truly LOVING ballet... even if I'm not as good as people who kept going for their whole childhoods

If someone legit did that in an elevator, I would crack up so much... and do the same thing to indicate my floor. 🤣

I came back to ballet as an adult too! They told me to join the "teen and adult" intermediate class which ended up being a bunch of 12 year olds and me. Despite this, it was super fun and the teacher is still one of my besties 8 years later.

4:20 That’s me!!

I'm so here for more of the dancers returning to their craft after years away or practicing well into their senior years! We've evolved beyond the need for any more cup videos!

The adult returning to ballet, honey you don't need to lose a single pound and it's sad that people still attribute thinness with ballet.

Oh my gosh the "why are your feet better than line you've never danced before" happened to me at a party, my friend was drunk, funniest moment of my life

I'm not exactly sure what would kill Josephine first A cuteness overload for watching children dance Or a cup overload for watching all those people walking on them

omg the one with the little ✨star ✨ had me literally crying; whenever I see kids so sure of themselves and so clearly in their element, I just pray no one takes it from them 😭 So pure and so joyful!

I just randomly found you and this took me down the trip of memory lane. I used to dance for MANY years when i was younger. Tap, jazz, ballet, pointe, you name it i did it. So many recitals, so many performances. The absolute highlight of my career dancing, when i was only 13, I danced at carnegie hall. 4 solid hours of practice before the performance and i loved every moment. My instructor was shocked as i never complained once and i was the youngest person there doing an exceedingly rough routine. I loved it. I wish i could go back but unfortunately my body cant handle it anymore. so ill live through others at this point and have good fond memories.

adults doing ballet, going back to what they left but want to resume now is just the best thing i wanted to hear yesss

OMG the dancing nana is so awesome!

the tapdancing grandma at the end was SOOOOOO adorable omg love how happy she looked in that

The dancers forming a circle at the ocean, were located in Skagen, the tip of Denmark. And the end of Europe. It is where the 2 oceans Skagerak and Kattegat meet. Thats why the waves come from both east and west❤

Returning to ballet has been so wonderful, despite fitting for pointe shoes being an absolute nightmare due to my feet 😅 Everyone who wants to dance should dance

12:10 I’ve seen this TikTok before I literally love their channel

The plastic wrap helps muscles warm up. Also I love these vids!

3:25 “you are a star you are a star omg🥹”

It's been 14 and half years since I stopped ballet. But it has never left my heart. I'm thinking about starting again ❤

shoutout to all the dancers who actually trained for pointe and watched random people buy shoes and dance effortlessly. this is practically so mean ive been doing pointe for 3 years now and is still scared to priouette on pointe. and ive did every style of dance since i was three. come on.

Omg, trying to walk while having my feet in cups was something I would do constantly as a kid! So nostalgic!

I always wanted to dance Ballet but never did because I’m a plus size girl, not that flexible and get exhausted a bit quicker then other people. Now I’m 15 and I have danced ballet for soon two years now. I’m in a small class of girls my age and they all helped me so much showing me how to do some steps (all danced since they where children) and overcoming my insecurities. I won’t become a professional, not go en point and probably will have to quit when I’m out of school but till then dance is and always will be my number one favourite thing

I’m watching all of these knowing that I could be at ballet right now and I can’t feel my feet and my mental health is as low as my splits 😊

My grandma turned 99 in January and she's also still dancing!

I went back to ballet 50 years after stopping (aged 15). I loved it, the body memory was strong - but - arthritis in my hips and feet, and excess weight put an end to it. So sad 😭

That last lady was soooo cute! You could just see the joy radiationg from her whole body as she danced. I'd love to become like her when I start reaching her age ❤

I tried coming back to ballet when I turned 19, I was in it from 7 to 13 and moved to Japan where I was in the situation of language barriers and not finding anyone who spoke English to continue from my level (there wasn't anything higher). I liked it, but I was also bummed I lost so much from not doing it. My cardio was so bad, my balance was off, my legs were burning. It wasn't as easy to me and for some reason that just broke me down, so I stopped going as an adult. I wanted to love it as much as I did when I was younger, but being older and less able just made me not love it as much which is a bummer. I had goals I never met and felt like I couldn't meet now that I was older. I'm now 26 and it'd be fun to get back into it again, maybe with a different mindset, but I was always hard on myself in ballet because I had goals I wanted to achieve, so I need to get over that hump...

I took a summer class after seventh grade, but I didn't take any other classes. Finally when I enrolled my daughter in dance classes, the instructor convinced me to join their adult group. So at 33 I started taking dance classes. I took tap, jazz, ballet and lyrical. I tried pointe one year and did not have the ankle or foot strength to do it very well. I was able to do one dance for a recital, but that was it. At 40 I took an Irish dancing class to get in touch with my Irish ancestry. I enjoyed my time dancing and the last couple years, I mainly did tap and solos that I used a ribbon for my routine (rhythmic gymnastic type ribbon). I could twirl four half regulation ribbons per wand and I used two wands. My granddaughter took two years of dance and her first recital was 10 days after she turned 3 years old. She was the smallest dancer and the youngest dancer in the dance school.

I love these ttype of videos, we need wayy more girl xx

I love that you're kind in your comments about the Dancers. Good on you for keeping it higher level! Respect & gratitude!

That beautiful foot dance reminded me of how a sea urchin feeds. Sea urchins have five jaw bones configured circularly with a ton of teeth (think kraked from Pirates of the Caribbean). They can extend and retract there mouthparts out of the little opening in their shell, and they can rotate it, allowing them to reach out, twist and tear off pieces of whatever they are eating and retract it back into their bodies. When sea urchins die with their shell intact, the soft flesh of the sea urchin with decay and disintegrate, escaping out of the holes where its mouth and butt were. However, some species of sea urchins jaw bones are bigger than their mouth and butt holes. If you find an intact one on the beach, give it a shake, if it rattles it is probably the jaw bones. Sand-dollars are a species of sea urchin with this feature, their jaw bones look kinda like doves and so were considered a sign of good luck and peace. Its kind of metal that a symbol of peace and luck is actually the jaw bones of a sea creature with a truly hellish mouth. Sea urchin gonads are also a delicacy enjoyed by humans and other sea creatures alike. It is highly nutritious and is why most sea urchins are covered in spikes and are often venomous. Everyone wants to eat their balls. Everyone. In some parts of the world, sea urchin populations have exploded exponentially due to a diminished number of creatures that predate on them such as sea otters. In these places, the sea urchins decimate the kelp forests, so depending on where you are in the world, sea urchin gonads are not only a delicious and nutritious meal, but also an ecologically sound and sustainable source of seafood. Eat the delicious salty gonads. Anyway, I have autism and I reeeeealy like animal facts. I'm impressed you read the whole thing.

The little girl from minute 3:38 is Baby Salome, she’s a little dancer from Venezuela 🇻🇪 ❤ I love your channel btw

I really want to start ballet again. I quit when I was 14 because with Covid and my studio wasn’t really a good fit for me. I wasn’t a company girl so all the other girls treated me like I wasn’t as good as them because I didn’t have as much money as them to pay for it. I had to quit because it got to expensive and I fell out of love with it between the other girls and them always singling me out. I want to go back though. But the only studio near me is my old one and I don’t want to go back to that. I miss it though, more than anything.

The girl at 7:29 gave me so much anxiety!! When I was twelve and got my first pointe shoes, my teacher was so strict about warmups and proper fit and proper tying them up and OMG this girl is going to break an ankle!!

100 year old tap dancer warms my heart ❤ I want to be like her when I grow up!

i enjoy spending time with you and your videos. I feel like you are so genuine, your laughter is infectious and it is a joy to watch

I do tap dancing and have for years and i love going "en pointe" in my tap shoes lol

yes more torture for josaphine

Tap dance!! Yeah. She's incredible.

You are so enjoyable to watch...I laugh so hard at some of your reactions to these ...thanks for making me laugh❤..love ya😂😂

I am so glad I found your video. This was so fun to watch and you seem like such a kind person.

binging these and eating toffee while i rest before a double show nutcracker day... perfect rest combination

The start 😂and your reaction to the first one😂😂 I can’t stop laughing 😂

Me, a person who's never danced, never did ballet, never once sat a foot in a ballet studio Also Me: watching all these videos back to back

The sweet grandma at the end was such a healing video to watch. So wholesome!

I‘ve come back to ballet through pole. I quit when I was about 11 and am now 33. 😁 It’s ballet for pole but the teacher is a professional ballet teacher.

I've loved ballet since I was a little girl, but lived in a small town where there were no ballet classes. I also had a REALLY bad turn-in in my feet as a kid, so I could do this very weird "reversed 5th position", thinking it was correct (no one told me it was wrong, since, no ballet classes). I'm 40 now and do these Les Mills Barre classes once a week, which is pretty much a ballet based workout, and really intense. Good cardio and reflex training most of all. I've been dreaming of trying a pair of pointee shoes, but oh dear, these videos and the fact that I'm 40 and a stable worker who can't go to work if I, you know, decide to make some incredibly dangerous pointee movements XD I love your videos, I'm learning so much!

Im getting my first pair of pointe shoes today!!

That 100 year old tap dancer is so freaking good man 😂 I could never.

josephine and i being like "what are they saying" when they were saying "pas de chat" like "pas déja" like, already dance???

Josephine has just the best facial expressions.

The woman at 08:29 is from germanys next top model, (kinda like americas next top model), she went ther together with her daughter but her daughter won, this is so saaad to watch omg

2:00 I'm a male ballet dancer in my teens i remember the first time I did partnering its so fun and exciting but also kinda scary, one of the funniest things that happened in my class was one of the girls slapped my in that face by accident it was a loud slap and everyone just looked at us we were both laughing so hard

7:19 , I haven't quite reached the grade you start training for pointe shoes in my dance school (I'm grade 3, pointe shoe training starts at grade 4) but I watched this and was so just like "what are you doing" because it takes so long to be able to master pointe shoes and it's so dangerous since #1, the pointe shoes are from amazon and #2, she's only done it for 2 months.

I love your video’s and it is fun to see what other ballet dancers are doing

I’m 24 and never danced, but I always wanted to. Since I got a job, next September I’ll start ballet classes finally 🥰