They've done the various steps more than a thousand times

Lol..🥰

I’d be the only one in the class doing the wrong step then looking around trying to get it right.

I'd be the Mr Bean of the class.

That is how it be tho

well a ballet class is only 90 minutes long :)

Isn't she lovely 😍♥️

She is the softer version of a Russian teacher

Same 😞

Excellent teacher very thorough

Ooh or a Drummer! Louder Pete, louder

Haha fr

keeps you moving on the beat.

YUS LIKE "FRANCOIS TENDU MUSIC" then u go take a coffe with him in break lel

i probably wouldn't afford to go to that gim anymore😂

IKR! So talented...

Playing Tom Jones 😍

The pianist is wonderful so inspiring

I was just thinking about it right now! Such great pianist!!!

AMAZING!!! Just heavenly....!!!!! Angel of music from the Panthom for rond de jambes ❤️❤️❤️❤️ Incredible pianist!!! Marvelous ARTISTS!!!!!!!

Not nearly firm enough. By a long way.

and she's a guest teacher but she knows everyone's names

Agreed: I had the honour of having her teach character when I took a teaching course. Pianist lovely, too.

She's teaching company class, not kids.

Is she english?

And no music! Talented chap xx

Hard as heck!

I was just thinking the same thing as I saw him playing so passionate.... so tiring just looking at him ... 😓

How does he know what song to play for each sequence?

@@shenraj885 at times she was telling him what to do, like when she told him to play a tango. And he also probably just has years of experience with the class and knows whats goes with the movements.

I would like this so fking badly

Never too late! It will never be my career but it can always be a hobby. I have ladies in their 60s in my class doing it for the first time and I see improvement!

start now! it’s never too late

Ballet is harder then it looks but it’s so fun

@@ChesireWaltz I am 26 I took ballet at 24 for 6-7 month, then I swifted to contemporary, but I still prefer ballet. I wish I was really good at it ha ha

So true😂 specially the girl with pink sweater😂

I’m a dancer. I dated a guy years ago who would come to my rehearsals and once asked me after I completed a dance class, “Is there a reason why all dancers dress like they’re homeless?” He was being so serious! Funniest thing I’d ever heard, and I had honestly never noticed before he said that. 😂

Its probably cold there idk

And here I am thinking, "this is my kind of style!" I wish I can wear this everyday! 😆Looks so comfy and warm but you can move around so freely in them!

Well most clothes you see are pretty warm and that's not in particular because the accademy decided to keep aircon to arctic levels but to warm up mucles faster. Of course you sweat too so you just grab what's in your closet right. But anyway great uplifting morning class. Loved the teacher.

I'm pretty sure he is playing Big Spender from Sweet Charity around the 5 min mark... amazing!!

That first bit on the piano is The Cavatina.

@@laurenvanmanen9083 yep !

looney tunes theme!

@@emerybayblues by Stanley Myers in the Deer Hunter

Dat pun tho😂

Oh no you didn't

@@Gwenyfith 😅

Absolutely. Even with all those dancers she still managed do give corrections to each of them throughout the combo. Maybe that was just because of the camera, but it was very nice to see. Wish my classes were more like what we see her doing

What's the Teachers Name?

Playing piano most of his life. Can play in his sleep.

Amazing pianist!

his practice and the music is im sure memorized for ever

Maybe you could, if you would play the same pieces every morning for a year or so! 😉

Excelente!!!

Yes I let it run as background music as I do other things:) Ballet is meditative.

Wow cozy. Man life can be so cozy when you don't contemplate or stress too much, but it's hard.

ajdrewello making my night. This is insane

I am jealous I just had a 3 hour class

When you "are", you don't feel the need to "seems"

@@mariaferrini3397 Well said!

@@mariaferrini3397 well, I think people are shocked in these comments because dance schools and a academies often have a dress & hair code (which is totally valid for a school setting so everyone is the same and teachers can really see the line and the feet) but they don't realize that professional ballet dancers can wear whatever they want to class as long as it's safe and serves the movement.

I think they dress like that to keep their muscles warm when dancing. If their muscles get cold while they are dancing it could put them at higher risk of an injury.

@@siribaimusic Yeah I had started at a place that had a dress code but I wasn't really aware of the dress code (because I was so young-started at 3) so I just wore whatever my mom bought me. Then we moved and the new studio I was in didn't have much of one (requirements were just tights and hair up, we could wear whatever over the tights, except jeans/trousers) which I wasn't aware of and thought tat I had to wear a leotard+skirt every time. then my friend came in in a t-shirt and shorts over her tights and I was like "is she aloud to do that?!" and I tried to ask my mom if I could dress like that for lessons/practice and she said that I was not aloud to just wear casual clothes which upset me so much at the time; I ended up hating leotards and skirts over all and left the ballet studio. Uh now I'm going through gender transitioning so that might have been why I was so upset.

I do the barre work also - 57 - and often think that my life went by too quickly

- 57 - 63 - years young🙌🤸‍♀️

L and Michele, you both are inspirational! ❤️

I am 60 and do the same, but I still take ballet classes.

@@cathymckay5915 that is so cool. I use these wonderful vids to be my class. I always wanted to take ballet. My sister and when we young would do 'ballet' when we had to do the dishes. Ballet is such an awesome physical therapy for a body akin to yoga. I do both not enough but i stay interested and 'practice. The teacher is so soothing

Being in shape and youthful are mainstays of beauty. It's sad that the first is rare to see in the West...

Makes me want to ballet 🤣

@@swish043 it has nothing to do with that. Dance companies hire people who have it all, talent and beauty. Good for them tho.

because they are fit ; Any person can look 10X better when they exercise rigourously

I know, sounded like she said,” A little quicker” to him at 24:00 hahahaha

@@inspirationofnature *23:46

@@aliciaanderson2599 Thank you.

@@SeraJanelle No problem :)

jep😁but he is nevertheless awsome in his play,i would love to hear him live

agree 100%!

I was thinking the same. And so grateful for the presenter's sensitivity to this.

I absolutely agree!

Agreed.

Yes! I hope they see that we like this better 😊

5:19 Big Spender!

What’s the music during plies?

9:45 is anything goes!

what's the 01:10 ?

@@Daenakena Cavatina (The Deer Hunter theme), by Stanley Myers

I think she's Russian, I also heard her speak Italian in this video at one point

She's Czech - one of the commentators said she speaks a lot of languages too. Def, love her accent! Olga is my fave teacher from these videos, she seems so lovely and inspiring ☺

@@helenchelmicka3028 she is Russian but was born in Prague

Alexandra Paraíso that’s partially why I go to ballet class

that's funny, it makes me feel just the opposite - reminds me of just how strict it is (which is also why I love ballet LOL)

me too!!

Hahaha (:

getnasty08 same but at the same time doing point and split stretches

Self-control when it really matters, apparently.

getnasty08 or right?

ROFLMFAO

What does "-chan" mean?

@@onigbajamo in japanese culture (not sure about asian in general), it can be used as a term of endearment to younger children or women. -chan is usually towards women and -kun has the same affect, only with males.

she spoke in Spanish to someone too.

I was just about to tear up until I read your comment. I want to start back dancing and I'm so far from this, but you're right we all have room for growth!

There is a reason why usually a ballet education takes about 8 years. Many many years of daily hard work for many hours (daily, too). And then after finishing 8 years of intense education (or even longer), one is still a (highly trained) beginner. So don't worry and just know that 1,5 years of practise is just the VERY beginning and it is normal to not be "flawless" just like that in such a short amount of time. Plus, you mustn't be perfect, only professionals must head for the most flawless possible. Enjoy it as much as you can as the movements itself bring so much joy...❤ Yeah, ballet - it needs lots lots of repeating and practising but then the results will be there😍 (Usually all "classical" professions need the most practice. For examply many classical musicians practise 6h daily to reach those high results. Ballet dancers train even more hours daily) And trust me, every ballet dancers has shed many many (many!) tears before becoming professional...(speaking out of experience having been a ballet dancers myself...) Yes, even the best ballet dancers make mistakes as this is just class and not stage performance. And about taking class: only with the courage of practicing something wich doesn't work out yet, even if maybe "failing" at first or making again and again mistakes - only like that one can get better and improve! So keep going girl, don't let some "mistakes" take away your love for ballet💖🩰

i can feel my legs cramping even if i wasn't doing it myself 😂

I am recovering from a calf tear i suffered about 3 weeks ago... Watching them do the rises makes me close my eyes haahha, but honestly i'm in awe to see how strong calves they have developed... My dream ❣️

Oh wow I was reading your comment when she said it! Lol

time stamp?

25:57

I am sure she can be too but in daily practice with the standard steps even the devil shouldn't have too much to criticize. But you're right, in general she seems nicer than most. I quit ballett as a teen even though I loved it because my teacher just bullied all of us throughout every single lesson

almost all ballet teachers I've had were lovely. my current one does not get me as excited, but I guess I'll be fine

Don't forget, she's being filmed! And damn knows it! So can be very different otherwise!

Even the sadists still care. Like 5 different teachers that I have taken class with have made the “I will be your torture I mean teacher today” joke

Some are. My first ballet teacher when I was 8 hit me with a tv remote and humiliated me in front of the class. I ended up getting traumatised and quitting ballet because of that. (Which was sad because I really did like it)

isabel cole I’m a complete non-dancer who knows little about ballet except enjoying watching it. I came across World Ballet Day a few years ago on KZfaq......so interesting and informative. These have to be some of the most hard working professionals in the country. Also just love the pianist apparently just extemporising so freely with such joy. Lovely to see someone else’s world, Huge thank you s.

Totally agree! I had jazz ballet lessons long time ago.. seeing these dancers gives such a good feeling.. even today at work I'm still in advantage because I'm used these kind of teachers, polite but firm. Very good for your attitude! ;) :)

Thank you for pointing out her name. I've singled her out as my favorite throughout the class but didn't know her name.❤️

@@OlgaRykov You're welcome. She is an amazing dancer, one of my favorites.

She is Marianela Nuñez from Argentina!!! She is amazing

❤

Years of training. That's how they remember. Such incredible dedication and discipline.

Wombat1420 as former amateur ballet dancer we would respond to the same fast instructions. These professionals have done these or variations of these bar exercises all their lives. They already now all of them and also have a trained memory. Not particularly difficult when you train every single day. Also they are used to memorize complicated coreo compared to this.

Mic CC agreed!

and it's even nicer because you realize that they probably have a silent agreement about it too, because girls might have to go put on pointe shoes!!

@@scarletbailey6086 it’s 2021 not 1940, gender roles are stupid and have always been. Just let people live their lives dude

@@nycdyke2867 Well don’t blame me for the centuries old gender role thing that the ballet world has about pointe shoes being for women. I would still find it nice that the people who don’t put pointe shoes on volunteer to be the ones putting the barre away regardless of their gender. It’s logical for the sake of saving time and I enjoy seeing little details like that.

They've been doing this since childhood.

Also they aren’t memorized they just have the idea and she calls it out too

@@beccaoreilly1415 i just assumed they were wizards lol

that's a talent you have to have as a dancer!

I went looking for this comment someone understands

✨ Seasons ✨

no, its not

Yes! It’s calming my nerves

stay home

Same here. It has a grace that is both soothing and admirable.

Me too lol

Now done,! A wonderful class with a wonderful teacher!! "quarantine" from Italy

Totally agree !!!! ♡♡♡

me too uashauhs

Me tooooo😂

😮🤭

I'm still sore from watching yesterday!

@@kathymyers7279 LOL😄‼️

Paisley Roundy you should go to ballet 🩰 fit or check out their website they run classes you don’t need to be a professional 🤷🏽‍♀️

I do sometimes 🥳

yes! I've been doing the barre portion for a few days now. It's really fun once I actually learned the combinations lol

Yes -- of course my version is not so pretty.

Community Education as well as Dance schools offer Ballet for the uninitiated. Comm Ed. in some places offer it as a exercise program.

I thought so too!

To Lizst &Chopin as well ;)),but actually he plays all what all the ballet pianists around the world play ;)))It doesn't make him less great, he is indeed, but all the ballet pianists have pretty much the same ballet class repertoire.