I have to admit I 'stole' some of your explanations, because as a dance teacher (I teach ballet and contemporary/lyrical), it's sometimes hard to explain things in a way all of the kids can understand. You helped me a lot, as a dancer and as a dance teacher! Thank you! :)

I have been struggling with grand jete's for so long! I am very flexible and have no problem doing my splits but leaps have never been my strongest area. I think my biggest problems are my upper body and getting my back leg up fast enough. My back leg tends to lag behind a little and brings my down. Thank you for all the tips! I will definitely be using them in class tonight!!

Omg. I keep hearing "soda shop" instead of "saut de chat". JUST ME?

I’ve been a dancer for over a decade and you still say things that make so much more sense than what what I was taught, and it makes the basics feel so much better - thank you

It not even a ballet dancer but I watch all your videos and pretend I know what things are😂😂😂

you see then there is a flexibility problem...

"Not cute!" lol... you're adorable! You look great, too! Love that leotard!

Love your leg warmers!!

"Not cute" hahaha I loved it! thank you so much for all your videos. I only started ballet 2 years ago as an adult but your channel has been so helpful and inspiring. You really got me going for it

Great Advice!!! For Grand Jetè exercises; After I've done grand battements and stretching I will cloche straight and in attitude with small travel on the barre before going to across the floor. It helps to get the sensation of grand jetè.

You are the best ballet teacher I've ever seen because your KNOW your craft literally from the inside out and have such a gift of communicating that knowledge.

You mean so much to me as an aspiring ballet dancer who started a year ago (but had to take breaks).

Love those leg warmers!!!!

I LOVE the way you explain it great job on this video

Thank you for making these videos. They have helped me so much!

I have tried so many videos and this is the only one that helped

Love the leg warmers!!!!!

Kathryn your body looks amazing!!!!

love this outfit!

Thank you SO MUCH for these videos!!!

I love your videos!!!! Could you do a video focused on dancing with bowed/hyperextended legs?

This vid alone made me get it first try the tips rlly helped were the 90 degree angle the travel and the back leg up I used to always focus on getting my front leg up which only got me a lil bit high and also i always focused on height and honestly the 90 degree tip just changed my life I always did a lil hop hoping to get somewhere but your video made me get it instantly

Your channel is the best thank you, you have the best content for dancers and for me as I start my professional dancing career 😊💜

She goes : go somewhere Me : I go out the 🚪 door.

I'm not even a dancer I just love your videos (plus I'm now really flexible which my fencing coach is loving)

thanks so much! I can finally actually do a grand jeté thanks to you

I watched your saut de chat video and used your tips in my ballet class yesterday and it helped so much!! Can't wait to used the grand jete tips!!! :)

just discover your yt channel and omg i was looking for these kind of channel for years

Great explanation, super helpful! And not to mention, love your outfit :D

Wow! This helped me so much. Thanks a lot!

ah dearest katie your clothing is quite colorful today, all the shapes looks like artwork, and your jump looks really pretty, and I think this is the most exuberant definition of how to do a grande jette of all your instruction videos, almost in an agressive fashion.

Hello Kathryn! Thank you for yet another fantastic video! i am so grateful what you are doing for all of us. I am more than amateur when it comes to dancing and love love LOVE your basic series! My plies and port de bras really improved after seeing your tutorial videos. Therefore I wondered if you would consider doing a basic video about arabesques (i never know where my arm should go, what mental images would help to get that leg up high) and about attitudes (am unsure about the whole knee higher than toe thing)? Thank you so much in advance for reading and for being so inspirational ❤️ Best wishes from Norway 😘

Helpful demonstration, thanks! :)

Dear Kathryn, thank you so much.

I love your explanations, are helpful for my daughter. Would love for you to be able to demonstrate it more so she can get a visual rather than imagining in her mind what she needs to do. Thank you for taking the time to make these helpful videos!!

I'd like you to make a video about the differents types of pas de valse! Thanks a lot!!

would you do a video on back flexibility? I have a strong back but it's not very flexible

Kathryn,thank you so much for this video.I always struggles when doing grand jetes,my teacher said that I don't open my legs wide.I found the 90° tip really helps me.And I love your legwarmers.Keep being amazing 💓

I have the same leg warmers as you from wearmoi! I love them, great video!

thanks a lot!❤💖 it is now that i get the difference between thise one and saut de chat!!! btw I love your outfit!!!

love it. thank you.

YOu're a really good teacher, tahnks :)

FINALLY A GOOD TEACHER VIDEO

this is a great video! Do you have tips other then the ones in the video for getting the back leg up? That is what ruins my leaps unfortunately. Thanks❤❤

So helpful love these videos 💜

AHHHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Your the best!!

This is still the only reason why I can do this jump

Love your videos so much! They have helped me tremendusly! You are just such an innspiraton for me! Also I've been waiting for this video becauseI strugle with grand jetes A LOT!

so grateful for all your helpful tips you're a great teacher!

So, I have to do a Grand jete for my studios Vivaldi variation, ON MY LEFT so I'm stressed so thank you for this!

You are an inspiration to me!

3:00 I laughed so much

i know this video is old, but in the 4 years of dancing in classrooms and studios i've never ever heard someone tell us the front leg has to be 90 degrees and that's when it all clicked for me thank you sm

You are such a great dancer!!! Have u done a video on scissor leaps? if not can u ???

I'm a newer ballet teacher and love these videos. Sometimes the explanation my instructors gave me won't do it (including "just do it" sometimes) I need a different view of it.

Katie, thank you so much for this! I find grande jete so much harder than seux de chat, but I find I can do grande jete better on my left side. Also do you have any suggestions for hyperextension in the knees to make sure the, back leg especially, straightens fully while in the air. It's something I've been working on but can't get it consistently.

This is so helpful!!!

You make it look so easy girll😂😂

I see lots of questions about your outfit. Maybe you could include the details of your Looks in all your posts. Love your vídeos!

my grand jete is tres petit rn, and I want to work on it, so thank you ^_^

Hi Kathryn! I just got Nutcracker casting for this year, and I will be performing Clara. I was wondering if you would consider doing a video all about this role...dealing with jealousy/drama, makeup, and getting the artistry right. Thanks! -Ella

Thank u❤️❤️❤️

Heyy kathryn i love your videoss

Thaaaanks

Thank you another great video!! Could you do a video on improving brisés? I can never get the hang of them. @Kathryn Morgan

lllloooove the outfit!!! @_@ advice is useful, as always :) huge thanks for all your work!

Kathryn can you do a video on grande tour jete? I really struggle with it especially getting the back leg up after landing. Thank you!

I was wondering if you could do a video on how to bourree

You're outfit looks super nice !😍 where did you get this grey body ?

What kind of dance flooring is that? I've been looking for some to put in my room but I can't find the right kind!😕

When I do either a saut de chat or a grand jete I always think "reach!" because it's like you're reaching for the ceiling (does that make sense?)

Hi Katie! I have a question, I am very one-sided in dance, as my flexibility, jumps and pirouettes on my left side are terrible compared to my right side. I've got to the point now where it feels extremely foreign to attempt a double pirouette on my left without falling or a grand jeté without looking like a bear because my left leg flexibility is lacking so much. Do you have any tips to help me change this?

The tips really helped me in feeling a bit of height and travelling! But I feel a bit of cramps on the back of my thighs right below my glutes... Any idea why? Thank you :)

Hello! When you say brush the leg up you aren’t brushing off the floor correct? In the air?

i love your video.

Thank you so much from doing these videos! where did you get your top from?!xx

what is the differences between grand jete and jete?

Hey Kathryn! I'm currently a student strictly focusing on ballet. I'm nine years old and my teachers have really been drilling in body positions. (Personally I'm being trained in the vagonova method.) I would really like a video on body positions, for example croise decant, that sort of thing.

Love the grey leotard. I hope to achieve this step eventually. I know this sounds off the subject but I'm curious about if it's possible if you can make wearable looks from the Nutcracker series like Snow flakes or Spanish etc . ?

i have a question I can get some height but I have trouble getting my back leg anywhere close to straight?

These videos are amazing! They help me so much in class and my technique is much stronger, thanks to you

hello I don't know if you will reply but my grand jete has to land on one leg and stay and I can never stay when I achieve all the corrections like travel and out. and my grand jete often lands realllyyyy loud. Do you have any corrections for me please? my competition is in 3 weeks and I am so scared.

I like it

your leaps r so perfect its not fair

Hi Katie! I'm a fan from Hong Kong:) Can u do a video on how to improve your arch? Thankss! Btw you are such an inspiration to me:) xoxo

I have my full splits in one leg and I almost have it on the other bit when I do it , my legs look like I’ve got no flexibility

hey Katie, love this video ~ I was just wondering where you got your skirt? xx

I just started pointe and it seems undoable! my teacher said I did good for a first lesson but it feels like I'll never attain a good level !:(

The biggest problem I have is my back leg do you have any tips

Loving the wear moi leg warmers, what are they like I've been contemplating whether or not to get them? This was really useful as my jete is atrocious. I can get my back leg up but struggle with my front leg.

Hello my name is joshika David hilari l am 10 years old l like your video but l have a question. Is it possible to jump continuously for 9 second and landing easily lf l keep on practicing l can jump far and high for nine second.

I laughed so hard when she was at 3:00 :)

I like your leg wear😌👠

I am not on pointe yet but whenever I jump my shoes make a loud noise but when I do it without shoes I make no noise and it really does not sound elegant lol

Hey Kathryn i was wondering if it is ok to put rubbing alchohol on my pointe shoes? A lot of people say they do it to make their shoes more flexible, but I'm not sure if I should do it

Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the struggles in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love. Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans . The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom. If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us back into that previously perfect image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. He will help us through the struggle, the stress, and anything we experience in the world. It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him through His power (not ourselves, we need Him to help us as it's impossible without depending on His power and instruction). He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if you had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place. He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it. He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way. Christ says in John 16:33: I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.] - (AMPLIFIED version) NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER. Regardless of what you've done or what you're going through you CAN make it through Jesus. If you have any questions let me know xx x

I've struggled with jumps all my life. I watch these other girls in my class in oversplits in my class and then I can barely do the splits haha

coloca legendas em português por favor?

thank you this helped a lot and where do you get your leotards they beautiful

Where are those pretty leg warmers from? You look lovely in pastel colors