And let’s not forget you have to have beautiful, flawless lines while you do it.

It’s looks painful AF

and painful x.x

@@cakerbaker9965it is 🥲

They are sacrificing their feet , leg ligaments, muscle 's etc, etc as a young person. Which is really sad . That's why you don't see them in their 30, 40, 50's, etc dancing. Give her a rose as she beats her body up & the rich get richer at these concerts. Great let her ruin her body, not my daughter's or son.

Being humble is a lovely characteristic. More people should practice it, instead of being annoying, selfish ars*****s!!!!

@annapachaclarke2392 I understand what you are getting at. However, Ms O'Sullivan did not post this short, the Royal Ballet did, and I think the RB should be courteous enough to give due credit to its dancers and at least give their full name and title in the description. What's wrong with, "I'm Anna-Rose O'Sullivan, and I'm a Principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, London".

It’s difficult staying on pointe on one foot for a few seconds.

Подписываюсь под каждым Вашим словом! Абсолютно с Вами согласна

Они большие труженицы

ABSOLUTELY!!! While spectators "appreciate" what they are seeing, they (we) have no idea the physical challenges they are doing. It's the dichotomy of grace and extreme pain.

Ballet Dancers deserve an Olympic event of their own.👌

It i s painful..👣I prefer and love ballroomdancing with a passionate partner in normal shoes 😅😉😁

looks painful too, especially showing her bare foot

​@@user-rq7yy8cu7y yes, right! Her poor foot ...gonna look so janked up when she's older even. Still, it's a magical skill!

Honestly, ballerinas very ugly because of all of this that they go through… seems a bit like torture

​@@user-rq7yy8cu7y my toes felt pain when they showed that part. Lol

Anyone who says that have possibly never even done any physical activity at all! In their head, they kid themselves that they could do these physical things! In reality, some struggle to walk anywhere, lol!!

My mom would’ve liked to see this film!She would’ve admired the professional ballet 🩰 dancer!She had trained many a ballet 🩰 dancer in her dance studio.A lot of them ended up as professional teacher’s as well!In honor of my mom,my hat 🎩 goes off to you!👍🎭😊

I know she is

I’m an ignorant non ballet person, can someone please tell me if the Rose Adagio (or whatever it’s called 🤷🏼‍♀️) is named after someone? Is it called that because her name’s Rose? I am honestly & sincerely lost. Please don’t ridicule my ignorance, I am aware of it. Thank you.

I thought her name was princess Auroura

@@paulamcdonald6568It's a coincidence that her name is Rose and the dance is called the “Rose Adagio.” Each of her four suitors hands her a rose, and that is why it's called the “Rose Adagio.” If it helps, think of the TV show “The Bachelor.” He gives a rose to each woman he is considering but none of them are required to dance as exquisitely as this marvelous prima ballerina🤩

she's still young too...

To me it makes it even more beautiful, imperfections tell us where we have been, what we do and who we are. I wish I couldve had the money to have an opportunity to continue training when I was a teen and seeing this doesnt change the way I feel!

They sacrifice their feet to their sport. That’s what it cost to appear like you’re floating with no effort. Reminds me of the original Ariel, where she had beautiful legs but each step felt like knives twisting in her feet. ‘Effortless’ beauty has a price.

No dancers here I’m guessing. Her feet are gorgeously arched-this is the line all dancers work toward

​@@rprice7921 her arch is beautiful but the bunion is rough and may eventually require surgery.

Strength, not strongness

Would you please tell how is it that a ballerina pays? In your experiense, if possible, please.

@@cutehollygolightly Ballerinas feet are completely ruined and you really suffer.

Yes, I trained in ballet from the age of three, until I was sixteen. My poor feet are having flashbacks of toe just watching this, but I would not take back one second of it❣️🩰💕

I wanted to add to my comment. To this day, if I point my toes too hard, I get an immediate Charlie horse in my calf muscle lol.

@@cutehollygolightly You basically have injured toes, ruptured ligaments, most of the times very badly injured knees and pretty bad back pain. The thing with ballet is, while you’re young and healthy you don’t notice all of it, but once you became older, all the pain from knee and toe restraints and thigh stretches that went too far will come back. Plus, most ballerinas also have mental health problems and such due to strict teachers and intense training. I was always told that any professional athlete has some sort of injuries related to their activities and it applies to ballerinas as well, unfortunately.

This person isnt a doctor, disregard their sad life.

It takes years to master pointe, let alone this position

The music of "The Nutcracker" is from another space. I had the greatest pleasure to watch and listen to it two times around Christmas a couple of months ago. I hadn't watched it before and concidered it as a huge miss. The two performances were incredible, I was crying with tears and was feeling so indescribable. Later I watched the other two ballets by Pyotr Tchaikovsky - "Sleeping Beauty" and "Swanlake" - and they all are nothing less than masterpieces, but "The Nutracker" wins my heart undoubtedly. Every music lover should watch it live by all means.

Tchaikovsky was beyond genius. His compositions are the best of the best in classical music genre.