reacting to CRAZY THINGS MY BALLET TEACHER MADE ME DO
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2022
- let's bring back the curtsy y'all~
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Hi Josephine, thank you so much for watching and reacting to my video! I changed the personality of the teacher to make a funny sketch. I didn't want to impersonate, so I created a character that was a fusion of Miranda Priestly and Mr. Miyagi, which is not at all how my teacher acted or spoke. She was quite lively and energetic, she never sat still stoically, and while she was very tough on us, she was also loving, nurturing. The purpose of this video was to highlight the creative things she did to teach ballet technique, while also making fun of Miranda-type people. Hope this helps your confusion of my outro! I just subscribed, you have a wonderful personality for reaction videos, I love it!
understood! i love your videos omg
I constantly get reminded how lucky I am to have a normal, kind ballet teacher 😂
My ballet teacher is very nice but she is having a hard time with us because we never say anything lol
YES!
yup
Those exist?
@@notbarney6305 HAHAHAHHA
Current ballet student! I have done the paper between the thighs, I have done releves with tennis balls in between my ankles, I have held a develope with quarters on my heels, and one time we had to do an adage with straws between our pinky, ring, and middle fingers. I have had some odd ballet teachers over the years!
It’s the unsharpened pencils between the fingers for me 😂
This doesn't seem crazy if you feel like or helped.
I had to hold a CD between my thighs while doing chaînes and my friend had his thumbs taped to his palms. Vaganova teachers are usually the weirdest, I've found
Same we also did tondus with pennies. Lol I remember one of my old teachers, I love her sm. In our studio we had one of those water things with the paper cups and you pulled down the tab to get the water, those things. Well they had some empty jug container things laying around and we did chanès holding them. She was an amazing teaching and I really miss her. Love you Ms Keri
Yes! I have done all of these things too! Lol 😂 when I really think about it it's kinda bad 🤣
My dance teacher would chase me while doing a cross the floor combination to help me travel more 😂
Same! Lol
Lmao
I had a ballet teacher sit on the floor behind me so that my leg wouldn't dip between arabesque and side developpe position. I loved this ballet teacher and I would have never forgiven myself if I had kicked him in the head. Love you Mr H! Love from South Africa!
That's a great tactic! I'll have to do that with my current students. Thanks for the idea and thanks for watching my video!!
Love it! Craziest things we had to do was do barre exercises with a small gingerbread cookie under the heel of our standing leg. If we were not on the ball of our foot enough, we would crush the cookie and we'd have to clean the mess ourselves afterwards. XD We also had to hold a cup filled with water during barre exercises, because some of us had their hands pointing the wrong way. With the cup, we would be spilling water all over the floor if we did it incorrectly. I thought they were very creative ways to teach us about proper posture and I'm sometimes still thinking about them when I'm at the barre. :)
We did this in tap with smarties!! 🤣
@@idioticbagel2833 the cookie thing? Could you please expand on how that worked in tap class? I’m curious about what would happen in moves where you have to put your heels down.
@Cimone
It was in technique so we would do some stuff across the floor (ex; running flaps) where we couldn’t put our heel down and stuff like that. If we put our heels down it’d make a big mess that we would have to clean. We did it with pullbacks, flaps, wings, etc. So we didn’t really do anything that required us to put our heels down.
Stuff like this makes me glad I started as an adult with encouraging teachers (not that it's bad to start early)! Hope you guys are safe now!💜
I started as an adult but still met crazy ballet teachers...
@@jolanmariavarga3830 I'm sorry!
I also started as an adult and my first teacher was well-meaning and enthusiastic but simply did NOT understand that adults do not have professional aspirations and there's nothing wrong with accepting our bodies' limitations...
@•☆Lucy☆• Thanks for saying this! it wasn't harmful at all, ballet is a tough art form to master and my teacher figured out how to train children by teaching it in different ways. Thanks for watching my video!
Thanks for watching and glad you have great teachers you like/love! M y teacher was also encouraging and nurturing at times, I just didn't add those moments in the video to keep the theme cohesive and consistent. I've put a disclaimer in the comments section if you want to check it out!
current ballet student here!!! i dance both at a performing arts school and a professional ballet school and this one teacher, who has trained many esteemed dancers, currently teaches at both. she has held pins under our ankles during adagio/whenever we hold out legs up at barre, made us balance books or stage crowns on our heads during character classes, and has put paper in between our thighs
Our teacher challenged us to hold a £5 note between our legs in first position and said if anyone managed to hold it there while she tried to pull it out we could keep it. Nobody did but it was a good lesson in engaging all your muscles and pulling up.
this is so funnyyyyy, i remember my teacher would put an open pen under our butts or feet and we had to try and not touch it or we would get a pen mark on our tights😂😂💀💀
Joséphine’s skin is glowing - it’s nice to see her smile and laugh, despite stressful circumstances ❤ 🤗 hugs from -Florida- hurricane city #1
Herman the mouse to get our foot position correct. Herman was a pretend mouse who lived in the arch of our foot and if wasn't pointed correctly our teacher would yell out "YOU KILLED HERMAN, YOU MURDERER!" We also had to do the paper between the butt, and courtesy. And for the record we were teenagers at an Arts high school so it was kinda funny
My ballet teacher likes to constantly remind us how lucky we are to have her instead of her old ballet teacher. Apparently to get her class to travel she would chase after them with a lighter while they were going across the floor😂
I did Irish dancing and thr usual form is to have your arms stuck to your sides. As it turns out, it's very difficult to bounce around without flapping your arms. So our teacher (who was only a few years older than us) decided to have us tie our school ties around each other. It worked but you were very much at the mercy of your friends freeing you at the end of the session! Haha
When I was a young gymnast we had ballet classes once a week and our teacher was a former soviet gymnast.
When I straighten my knees they still look somewhat bent and I guess she wanted my legs to look straighter or hyperextend. What she did to achieve that was to put my leg on a boxwhen we did splits and put her hands directly on my kneecap and pushed down with her weight. Didn't make my knees straighter but it did cause pain I still have 10 years after quitting. Thanks Elena
That sounds very dangerous and stupid. She very easily could have broken your leg. You can't change how bones grow like that. I am sorry you had to go through that.
I have the same problem!! Except my teachers don’t try to forcefully fix it. I have great beautiful feet but I do not have any hypertension at all.
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How did your teacher even get job if she didn’t know how dangerous it is?
@@miao7753 well she has a coaching license in my country so I guess that's enough and she coaches at a regional elite club and they produced many olympians in the past, so success probably proved them right (currently all their stars are retireing at age 17 or 18 due to injury). But the federation sees the responsibility with the children to tell their coaches if they are in pain. Guess how well that works
I've never danced, but my violin teacher would sometimes have us put a marble on the scroll of our violin to practice holding it level.
I took ballet as full grown adult and still got poked behind the legs/knees, swatted etc. 😂 Had teachers mess with my fingers to get them into place and sit behind me while doing barre exercises.
I also was taught to curtsey to my teachers.
Didn’t really think anything of it till I stopped dancing ha. Even then they made me a much better dancer and I made it en pointe so I’ll take it. 😆
Ahhahahaha I only danced when I was really little so I never had any of this, but I had a swim coach make us swim backstroke with cups of water on our foreheads… 😂😂😂😂 honestly loved that coach though. Shoutout to Marco
The cups on the forehead is still a thing. Though I tend to use a sinky toy that the kids can go after IF they get it to me. I use cups of water on kickboards for torpedo flutter kick. They love tipping them on my head at the end of a length or lap
Our ballet teacher used a pointer stick to correct our posture! She only whacked me twice. I learn quickly. She never hit hard but I was told she got harder if she hit you more than once during class and the second time she tapped me , I had returned after illness so she was gentle with me. Also, my mother already smacked us enough to stand up straight, lol! Oh, obviously this was in the 60’s.
Mine used a riding crop for posture correction
This dude in my class got a ruler taped to his back lmao
Shouldn't really be trying to hit people.
@@pinkjellyb123 I actually agree with you but this was back in the 1960’s and ballet instructors carried a cane to straighten posture among other things like count time on the floor by striking it. Back then regular school teachers and principals were allowed to paddle students for misbehaving as well (WITH parent’s permission ). Some schools didn’t need permission . Mine did. My parents would have torn that school apart brick by brick had anyone touched me or my brothers. However I, never got in trouble. I can’t say the same for my brothers.
I was never in ballet class, but I loved the paper between the butt cheeks. When she walked, holding that paper, it looked like me trying to get to the bathroom after waiting too long. 😂😂
We were supposed to hold the paper between our thighs, but I am slightly bowlegged and even in first, my legs barely touched! Happily, this was not an issue in my other pursuit - equestrian sports 😂
YES!! I WATCHED THIS AND WANTED JOSEPHINE TO REACT AND SHE DID!!
I appreciate all my past ballet teachers. There’s a kind of respect when you curtsy. Just traditional! Love it. My current teachers we can make fun of a little bit though haha 🤣
When I was younger my ballet teacher would have us lay on our backs with our legs spread out on the wall with weights on them and over time the weights would increase until we reached 180°
My ballet teacher told us to fall asleep in the frog position and the wall split haha!
Mine put CD’s in between our butt cheeks. We’re they in their cases you ask… no, no they weren’t. Just our cheeks and a shiny shiny disc. 😂
I had a wonderful teacher that did a lot of unconventional things, but ist was never this scary. She put a heavy water bottle in the back of my pants, when I wasn’t in plié enough for a contemporary choreography. She used to literally threw us, when she wanted us to jump farther doing tonlevés. Oh, and she put 5€ notes between our legs when doing chainés and who didn’t lose it was gifted the 5€ 😅
Omg that’s Kelsey!!! She’s so great!!!!
I once went home after school with a classmate and watched her piano lesson. Her piano teacher held a sharpened pencil under the girl's wrists. It was to teach her to keep her wrists straight. The flame under the butt reminded me of that.
the robe slays
Your skin is great drop the skincare routine!
The wall stretching 😂😂😂
I have been in ballet for 12 years (this is my last), and i have experienced things such as paper between thighs for burees, wooden spoon taped to my back during barre, tennis ball between ankles for releves or thighs for tondu, and piques over classmates
Josephine you are so pretty with no makeup ohhhhh my God, gorgeous xD
Ayyyyyy!!! Rochester, NY!!! I’m in Buffalo, NY!!! Hopefully you enjoyed the area!!!
Figure skater - the ring on the finger is definitely true, and imagining holding a banknote - exactly the same!
My ballet teachers told me about some stories of their teachers. One was back when ballet teachers would smoke in the classrooms there was a teacher that would walk around and put their lit cigarette under dancers legs to encourage their attitude or arabesque to go higher 😅. Another one was when doing pique turns across the floor the teacher would have students put quarters between their legs and try and hold it there the entire time. Suffice to say at the beginning of the turns you'd hear a bunch of coins drop to the floor 😂
I have such a nice ballet teacher and she’s my one and only and fav! She’s way too nice and we never had to do any of those
The curtsey.
I stopped ballet when I was 9 (I was terrible at it, but I loved it). I'm 47 now. I saw the curtsey and immediately thought "Good morning, Miss Fiona".
My mom once sent me to a day-long “intro to gymnastics” class to placate me after I was really sad that she pulled me out of actual gymnastics. The class was open to ages 4-12 and was intended for kids to find out if they might like gymnastics before joining a gym. I was 11, I think the next oldest girl was 7 or 8. I was also the only one who’d actually done gymnastics before. So I very quickly became the teacher’s demo student, and I obediently stepped right up when she said I would demonstrate a trust fall. And as I was lying on the mat gasping for air, she casually explained to the other kids that “no matter how hard you fall, you can always trust the mat to catch you.” The only lesson I learned is not to trust a trust fall!
WE LOVE SLEEPLESS JOSEPHINE VIBES
The funniest video I ever saw before :-D
My ballet teacher makes us IMAGINE there is a dollar bill between our legs
Hello from Fayetteville, NC. Hope you enjoyed your visit to our state!
I taught my kid to always thank someone who teaches you something. Even school teachers. I love the idea of baller curtseys after class. (I've never studied ballet)
I hope you enjoyed Winston-Salem! It's where I went to college, so it has a special place in my heart.
BROOOO I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE JOSEPHINE AS MAH BESTIE SHES HILARIOUS NO JOKE 😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
I once had a ballet teacher who put thumbtacks under our standing leg arches during bar sometimes and it feels like a fever dream
As a grown adult taking adult classes we still courtesy to our teacher after class. 🤣
wow so early!
Why is passive stretching not recommended? I was always taught that bouncing during stretching is not good for you. I haven’t taken regular classes in a few years so I’m interested in what the current recommendations are for when I’m stretching at home!
Can you come to south carolina?! Love you btw!😅❤
My teacher would hold my leg to keep it straight, too. and poked our butts to make sure they were clenched lol she made such a big deal about “banana feet” that when we had an absolute beginner who never took ballet before, she happened to have great naturally high arches with that curve on the top of her foot, you know the part some dancers enhance with a fake bump?! ever see that? I looked into it for myself lol anyway, the teacher tells us we all should pointe our foot like her, that she’s the best. She was born with those feet! it made me mad lol I was flexible, learned to do all these hard turns and jumps, my carriage was so good people knew I was a dancer (until this day people ask if I have a dance background and I’m not tiny or athletic looking at all), but because my pointed foot wasn’t curved like a banana, I was no good compared to the new girl. 😭
Let’s just take a moment to appreciate how loud ballet teachers are. Like they’d be trying to whisper something to one kid and the kid at the back of the room would be able to hear 😂
My teacher would make us tuck in our stomach with boxing glove in the middle of any exercise(as a joke), would put bouncy balls inside of our shoes so we wouldn’t lower our arch, would throw ball at us in center if we wouldn’t do the variation right, would make up so many creative terms to compare errors, would tape toothpicks behind our knees so we would straighten them completely and she would make us laugh in every class, omg I love her (btw she still does these things to us)
Josephine you are not only hilarious but gorgeous as well. ❤
Rochester Ny!!!!! Aye that’s my hometown!!!!
My first ballet teacher was coming with long and pointy nails and while we were on releve, she was pressing the nails to our calves and our muscles so we can feel the muscles and squeeze them to go higher. Now everytime I go on releve, I still feel the pain 😅
I remember that once a dance teacher made us hold a pencil with our teeth so we would feel the sensation and smile while dancing
I walked into my studio tonight and the teacher was having the kids do the straddle stretch against the wall xD
My ballet teacher had a paur of suspenders and some breif type underwear she'd use. The point was we had to use our muscles where the suspenders were to hold our hips straight. Also put a tissue between your knees when doing 5th on demi. Mostly her things were just verbal visual ideas, but yeah a few came with physical things.
Josephine should see A to Z en pointe from the Australian ballet
OMG YOUR WERE IN NC I LIVE THERE! wush I coulda sen you!
tennis ball between the ankles for soutenu turns. me and a classmate were both made to do barre with gymnastic mats propped up behind us and our butts couldn't touch the mat or the mat would topple over and be obvious. I struggled with that one because it wasn't a posture issue for me, I just have a booty. but my poor classmate was dancing with an anterior tilt, so the mat really helped her after she knocked it over a few times. my teacher finally took my mat away when I laid flat on the floor, face down, hip crests to the floor, and my butt still stuck out 🤣 it was just my body, not bad posture.
I AM SO EARLY OMG LUV THE VID
Josephine❤❤❤❤❤❤😄
My ballet teacher makes us imagine a lot of these
Hello from North Carolina, we made it in just after the storm.
We curtsy!
In 5th grade my class was learning Bournonville (classic danish technique) and my teacher had us all fold jump-ropes and hold the tought so she could see if our arms were moving in and out or held completely still as they should be. I mean it worked so...
you were in winston salem!? I live in the area, i'm in concord, nc. now i'm upset i missed it😑☹😤
I’m a dance teacher of a different style, and there is move that requires the twisting of your upper body (it’s called a torso rotation) that is a fairly beginner move. I had one student that had issues of collapsing her chin to her chest regularly. I had my students all bring in a roll of toilet paper and a scarf. You put the roll of paper under your chin and tie the scarf through the hole around the back of your neck. Had everyone doing this for an entire song so they could know how it is supposed to feel, head position wise. I’m sure they thought I was crazy, but sometimes you have to think outside the box. 😂
The straddle against the wall was a regular occurrence at both studios I went to, and I didn’t even do ballet. One teacher even had us do this straddle while another classmate would stand on our legs with some of their weight on the barre, but a good amount of their weight on our legs. I absolutely don’t recommend this. Forcing a stretch like that, especially with that much weight is unsafe… I also had a teacher who had us leap over a pile of acro mats. It was a little nerve wracking, but fun.
You can tear your gracilis muscle doing this. (And yes, I speak from experience!)
The gravity wall splits is something I heard about from one of my gymnastics coaches when I was 12 or 13. He told me that he fell asleep like that and woke up in center splits, and at the time I was struggling really hard to get my center splits all the way down. I tried it multiple times but I could never fall asleep. Also never got my centers perfect either.
Josephine is so extra and im here for it .......gurl.....werk
After the first 3 months or whatever the class was when I was 6 or 7 my ballet teacher told me I wasn’t graceful and to join gymnastics. Grace is literally my middle name. Joined gymnastics. Best thing I ever did!
Teachers that make hands on corrections!
I've never been in ballet, but I'm a gymnast, and one of my coaches has us do flips (usually front tucks from a springboard or a mini tramp) over him semi-regularly.
i remember my ballet teacher put a really small hooli hoop over my leg and my head so we would keep our leg up
Welcome to the east coast fall lol
You should come to every state in the U.S. at one point!
My teacher made us do bourees with the paper I’m not kidding 😂😂😂
I had a teacher do the paper but between the thighs. I do feel it actually helps if you've got weak adductors
I feel lucky to have somewhat normal ballet teachers. Other than the fact that one time my friend brought in lettuce because of lettuce fingers (if you know you know). He ended slapping people with the lettuce and made someone hit it doing a battement, and the lettuce broke and part of it fell to the floor. That was an interesting day. Another time he made use leap over yoga mats because we weren't traveling enough. I don't think anyone actually made it over the mats (even the tallest girls didn't). We ended up jumping onto the mats on accident and that would mess use up.
The paper between the butt cheeks sounds like a pretty useful trick though. Our teachers often told us to imagine there's stuff (usually a $100 note lol) stuck between our limbs and we should try to not lose it.
Wait you came to Rochester???? That's so cool! That's my hometown!
I had my ballet teacher crouch under my leg so I would get my leg above 90 degrees during Rond De Jambe. Basically if I let my leg dip I would hit her head 😭
It’s lighting a fire to one’s a**. 🤭😅
Talk about it. My ballet teacher was so confident in our skills she had us put literal fifty dollar bills between our knees during chaîné turns so that we'd keep them together 💀
I was at a pretty chill studio and we had to do the paper thing lol...we got threatened with stories of teachers who did the flame thing
my ballet teacher would put a starburst on our elbows when we have our arms in second and if the starburst didn't fall we got to eat it
Why is it that everytime I find out something about ballet class I find even more overlap with things done in martial arts training (taekwondo in my case)?
NC rules glad you were here. Did u like it
My teacher had a needle instead of a flame and used it for grand battements and grand jettes too! didn't let us use toe pads for point shoes! and the courtesy of course
All so familiar! Except the flame was a cigarette (way back in the day when a teacher smoking in class was normal) that was held under leg in a la seconde.
One time I had a hard time on one footwork combination. My teacher mived me to the back row. I eventually got it. Like the next class. I stayed in the back.
I had a teacher that used to hold needles under our legs during developpes and prick us so we got our legs high enough, most tights came back with little blood stains 😅
Yoooo that's crazy. I live in Winston-Salem
I'm a yoga instructor, and passive stretching done correctly is good for you
I did some crazy things when I was gymnast to train, but not because my coaches made me. The whole neighborhood knew me for using the swing set bar at the playground to practice balance beam technique. My logic was that if I could do everything on a round bar that was only 2 inches in diameter while 8 feet off of the ground, doing it on a flat beam 4 inches wide would be easy.
I usually placed first on balance beam.