Ballet Styles and Training Methods: Ultimate Guide (Which ONE is the BEST?)
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- THIS is your most comprehensive guide to the 6 styles of ballet and their different origins, training methods, philosophies, and unique characteristics. After this video, you’ll be able to appreciate the wide variety of ballet training methods, as well as the beauty and specialties of each one.
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0:00 Ladies and gentlemen...
1:05 The French Style
4:50 The Bournonville Style
11:05 The Cecchetti Method
16:45 The Vaganova/Russian Style
21:47 The RAD Method
26:13 The Balanchine Style
32:28 Bye~
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COMMENT BELOW to let us know what member of the Ballet Friend Group you are! Thanks for watching, ballet nerds ❤️❤️
off topic.. would you guys do a video on ballet fashion? I remember the culture being very specific when i was dancing, Everyone wore clogs back then and you'd buy a perfectly good leotard and immediately cut slits in the neckline. Wearing tights OVER leotards. I remember wearing a long piece of shoe elastic around the waist with a safety pin was another popular thing. Space boooooots of course. I'd be interested to hear what goes now. Love this channel!Thank u
that was so interesting! I just started classes as an adult, been learning for half a year, and I tried guessing which style I am learning in :)
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I have to salute you! Amazing video and great research. Unfortunately, you misspronounced some names. I am from Germany and I had Russian and French classes at Uni. As your editing is chef´s kiss ✨you can just show the names without saying them.
Anyway, your videos are still absolutely amazing, so please don´t take my critisism to heart.
I'm checcetti trained and when you said "everything arrives together" I could just hear my teachers.
AHAHAHA 😅😅
Me too. Also Checcetti trained (in the 1950s and 60s). The thing that I most remember is not forcing turnout, not overcrossing 5th, etc.
I have a very strong memory of a young student who joined my class in the 1950s. (I'm not sure where she was from but maybe Russia because she wore award ribbons and medals on her leotard). At 7 or 8 years old she had very forced turnout and my Checcetti-trained teacher was horrified and insisted the this child not continue over-doing it.
I've been wondering about the extreme flexibility (including turnout), broken wrists, and pointy elbows that I have seen in recent years. I didn't realize that it was a different "style" and thought that it was a loosening of standards or some new-fangled aberrations. Thanks for enlightening me! ❤
Cecchetti*
I'm in my 60's now but still remember the toe joint fifth and the wrapped-ankle frappe. And the absolutely solid aplomb! And the finger placement...Cecchetti may well be hard but if it's the only method you've learned you probably wouldn't see it like that - IMHO!
For latin American's dancers the cuban style is one of our pillars too, and with this video I see that it has a lot of things from different schools, specially English and Russian
I was waiting for them to mention the Cuban Style
Very old phrase. “Italy invented it, France refined and named it . Then Russia took it and made it their own.” Hard to argue with. Thank you girls 🩰🩰🩰🩰🩰👵🇦🇺
I became a Sovjet prestige project and got the means to perfect it. We all benefit from that.
France invented it, Italy refined it, and then Russia took it even further!
Maria Taglioni...
I thought it originated in England
You guys!! You touched on everything!
I'm a Cecchetti teacher, and I would like to add that both Cecchetti and RAD (like you said) are very much suited for recreational dancers.
Cecchetti has a similar system with grades for students, to work towards the hard stuff. So the lack of allongé in RAD, is very handy when you teach children or recreational dancers. Because they can't get confused or distracted as much, and work on strength first.
I don't think you would find a lot of professional dancers that are just Cecchetti or RAD trained, they would usually spend some time at a school that teaches a style that is more like what is done on stage today (you also mentioned that).
On the other hand, as Vaganova is designed for the perfect, professional student, it is hard to use that style to teach recreational dancers... A teacher would need to know exactly what they're doing, adjusting the syllabus toward amateur students. Sadly, where I come from, I see a lot of shabby teaching, lack of strength and lots of aimless arm flapping. They also don't have the examinations, that are a test for the teachers as well. Vaganova is beautiful when taught well to carefully selected students. (You did say that) (this video was perfect, thank you).
Wow thank you so much, that means a lot! We appreciate your insight and positive feedback. Thank you!! 😆😆
Hi! What is RAD? 😊😅
@@amywaves80s Royal acadamy of Dance, it's a syllabus developed in the UK, but used world wide. It's designed to help teachers teach ballet in a very organised way, to recreational dancers as well as more serieus students. There are regulated examinations at the end of each level. It's not the same as the Royal Ballet School, which is just for professionals, and has a different style.
@@MarijeK Thank you very much for answer! 😊
Yes!!! I went to a Vaganova studio for my first 12 or so years of ballet, and it was a rough place to start. When I transferred to a Balanchine/Cecchetti school it was a much better fit and I finally excelled.
In Brazil the Cuban style is quite popular, that's the style I learned when I was a dancer, it's very beautiful
Loved these comprehensive descriptions! Lifelong Cecchetti nerd here - My 1960's/70's anatomically safe ( and beautiful) training has allowed me to keep dancing for sixty years.
I’m a 100% a Vaganova girl. I saw the Nutcracker in the Mariinski theatre and I cried the whole time. It was truly one of the most magical and moving experiences I’ve had. Their dancers are truly incredible ♥️
I trained with the Vaganova style and loved it; everything just seemed more expressive and I loved being able to put in little dramatic flairs in my dancing. I remember being part of a children's cast for the Moscow Ballet's Nutcracker tour and just naturally did something with my arms and head during a leap and the instructor just went 'Very Vaganova - everyone, do that!' Also, I don't think I could've ever done those front-side fouettes lol
Haha we LOVE dancing in the Russian style! The dramaaaa ❤️✨thanks for sharing your experience! 😆😆
I’m really sad you didn’t talk about the Cuban Method. It was so groundbreaking for the dance culture in America, and creates such great, expressive and virtuosic dancers. It’s a shame it isn’t well known.
We LOVE Cuban trained dancers! ✨✨ there are SO many different training methods and styles out there, obv we couldn’t cover all of them, but we covered the basics in this video👍🏻👍🏻
@@balletreignif anything that would make a great part 2 in the future ! I'd watch it for sure ❤
Coincido, faltó el método cubano, pero aún así buen video
Gracias por compartir❤👍🏻
@@balletreign there are only 7 teaching methods, actually! those you mentioned + the cuban, wich is the most recent one.
love watching your videos.
@@balletreignI’d love to see a part two!
In a conversation with Irina Kolpakova, one of Vaganova’s last students who is absolutely incredible and is still coaching very fortunate dancers at ABT in her 90s, she shared that Vaganova did a great deal of work to refine all the “port de bras” and coordination of arms, upper body and head movements. She did not invent the Russian method of teaching ballet , but she rather systematized, recorded, and refined the method that already existed. Irina also shared that Vaganova was an incredibly caring and supportive teacher who was there for her even after graduation. As we know, there are many paths to the top of the mountain and each ballet style of teaching can take a student there, as long as there is consistency in the training and the teacher(s) really know the method they are teaching and can find a way to inspire their students.
Irina was still a teenager when Agrippina died, but what she did is amazing. Agrippina changed the whole ballet pedagogy, technique and style, which had been completely messy and unscientific up until her teaching years.
@@juanjosefarina Not exactly. Some well-known Mariinsky teachers and dancers tried to systematize ballet methods and vocabulary long before Vaganova. She had written her famous book in early 1930s same time with her colleagues on teaching method of character and historical dance. Tarasov and Chekrigin in Moscow has published their book on ballet technique just few years later (in fact Tarasov's next voluminous book published 30 years later is still a main work on male dance in Russia). Actually that was a large state order : at that time simultaneously with formation of new Soviet republics state ballet schools in all the capitals of that republics were opened or reorganized, same as folk ensembles, theatres and many other institutions (also used for massive communist propaganda). But during Stalin's time and generally Soviet era all educational institutions were supposed to teach the same. Curricula on all subject were brought to a single standard : Children in all Soviet schools had to learn the same from math and geography to ballet. No one had to deviate from that general model. And since St. Petersburg theater school was the oldest in the country (and leading teachers in Moscow had written their programs not that fast), it was the Mariinsky ballet rules (and not the Bolshoi) that were officially imposed in all prof. ballet schools throughout the country. Although Bolshoi Ballet due to a fact that instead of St.Ptb Moscow became a capital of USSR managed to maintain its features.
@@Vik-chic sorry but you are not right. Just some quick bulletpoints before and after of Agrippina, from the top of my head:
- Before her, arm positions were not defined, you can refer to books (from newer to older) Veronine Vestoff, Alexis Kosloff, Friedrich Zorn, Stephano Mascagno, Leopold Adice, or even Carlo Blasis.
- Before her, there wasn't a strict curriculum, you can refer to Volinsky's Azbuka Klassicheskogo Tantsa or Ekaterina Vazem's autobiography.
- Before her, ballet classes hadn't a common structure, refer to Cecchetti's books, Eglevsky's book on Nikolai Legat's classes, Gorsky's classes notations, Veronine Vestoff, Stephano Mascagno, Leopold Adice, etc.
- Before her, there wasn't an understanding of how each step was linked to another, and how to progress towards learning classical dance, you can refer to cecchetti's and bournonville's books, since they are who wrote the most about how to learn ballet from zero pre-Vaganova (also, Gorsky's annotations are interesting, and there is also a class by Filipo Taglioni wrote down by Adice).
- Before her, the pose attitude still wasn't defined, she has a small passage in her book where she says that "she can't call attitude to the poses effacée and croisée front", but before her "attitude" meant many poses, refer to Alexis Kosloff, Charbonnel, or the researchs of Edmund Fairfax.
- Before her, no serious research on dance anatomy had been made, she invited professionals to establish the requirements for ballet training, and the entrance exam was devised around that, you can refer to the 2014's third VA's scientific bulletin.
- Before her, the russian pas de chat and the grand pas de chat (jeté développé or flic jeté in other countries) didn't exist, refer to Krasovskaya's biography (the step debuted in Laurencia).
- Before her, no other comprehensive book nor movie had been made on ballet training, and she wrote the first piano accompaniment (together with pianist Brodsky), because piano had just started being used at the start of 1900's (Agrippina, Pavlova and Danilova had been trained with violinist for example).
- Before her no professional education for ballet teachers had existed, she created the first two year higher education program, that's why she is sometimes referred to as "the first professeur"
Aside from that, Agrippina created the russian ballet style as we know it today; she was virtuose and fierce, and together with Volinsky, they conceived the idea of a "heroic" russian ballet style, which gave birth to those big poses raising the chin and arms high and strongly, filled with proud, she of course inherited some of Preobrashenskaya and Cecchetti's style and technique, and the big emphasis on allegro that she herself explains in her book.
cecchetti mentioned!! i'm a cecchetti dancer, i've done almost all the exams and im so glad you guys featured it! i never really see people talk about the method and all the things you talked about were so well explained, thank you for all your work ❤️
Aww!! Thank you so much for the positive feedback, we are so glad you enjoyed the is video! ✨😄😄
Serenade is the most complex ballet or any art work that a human being has ever produced! in 20 minutes Balanchine ballet, you done 3 hours of choreography! The greatest choreographer that has ever lived! I mean Symphony in C, Concerto Barocco, Violin concerto, jewels….the most original and varied styles from the very modern to the very classic, neoclassical….no other choreographer has had such influence in the dance world!
I learned my basics from a Vaganova trained dancer but they stopped teaching adult classes, so now I'm in more RAD style adult classes and often say to myself in my head "Vaganova, baby!" as I do my nice, big, port de bras 😂 thankfully the teachers understand that we all come from different places!
Vaganova and RAD are like total opposites too! That must have been fun lol 😂
I'm a grade 7 in RAD and let me tell you..........THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE BEEN THANKFUL I WASN'T DOING THE EXAM CAUSE MY GOD!!!!! EVERYTHING FROM THE BAR TO FREE MOVEMENT IS EVIL!!!!!!!
The ones who put extreme demands are the ones who do not have to perform them themselves. The human anathomy hat limitations and the should not be forced.
Hahaha I have done the higher examination Grade 7 etc. and now I’m doing Intermediate foundation. It is evil for some parts, but I like the style of training more than Vaganova and Balanchine.
I am the only Vaganova trained student in a more or less RAD based recreational adult class. And I love Vaganova. Especially to "breath" and allonge with the arms. I think my classmates somehow consider my port de bras as "weird affectations". 🤣 But I can't help. If I try to do the port de bras RAD like, my dancing looks rather robotic. 🙈
I love Vaganova and understand what you are saying. Plus the way the arms 'clear' the head to fully display the neck, shoulder-line, and head is always gorgeous.
When you were mentioning the strictness/selectiveness of Vaganova school, I can immediately hear my Russian teacher’s voice “that’s not a fifth position” whenever my heels and toes are slightly not touching each other in fifth😅 I’m lucky to have the range and know how to develop my turnout safely, so I was glad that I was pushed to perfect my turnout. But I think it’s important to find the right style for your body, forcing turnout may be necessary for me but not everyone’s body can push that quickly 😊
Balanchine is the most interesting style to watch, the most dynamic and athletic and musical. It’s good to start with another type of training and then move into Balanchine around age 14 or so.
That’s what I did!
I did RAD as a teen and now I've joined a Checchetti school as an adult. I find the differences between the techniques endlessly fascinating - also can confirm that Checchetti frappes are HARD!
French school here ! And you guys are pretty spot on.
Two things I would add : petite batterie is very much also a staple of French school even today. And the importance of the épaulement (which is something you will hear about at least 30 times in class) is very much staple French school style.
I wholeheartedly agree on the cleanliness aspect which makes the corps de ballet so satisfying to watch.
Agreed. French-method trained dancers are known for their quick petit allegro. Very exciting!
Well.i learnt so much! Even at midnight watching this ...i did Ceccheti with a strict teacher in the 50's & 60's..exams too. Then stopped as a 13 yr old to do Calisthenics ( big in Australia) i went vack to ballet as a 28 yr old then did RAD in my 40's. Had to relearn the new style
I love my ballet class..am 71 now but miss havin g a live pianist. I opened a dance school and had itfor 25 yrs with a live pianist..lucky children
I'm RAD trained, sometimes you complete both the numbered grades and vocational grades at the same time. For example I've just taken my grade 8 whilst also doing Advanced 1 at the same time. :)
Doing the numbered grades alongside vocational is useful for RAD students because the vocational grades do not have character dance.
My ballet teacher always said that cecchetti was the original style and talks a lot about how vaganova was his student and how a lot of things stemmed from the cecchetti method. I took my grade 1& 2 exams in June and my grade 3 in November and I’m working on doing my grade 4 in June but it’s really hard. Also the upper levels of cecchetti are so so hard, grade 6, 7, and diploma are so incredibly difficult, and are mostly en pointe. Thank you for making this video, it was super fun to see all of the details about all of the styles!
Cecchetti is SO HARD 😅😅 we’re glad this video was helpful to you and that you enjoyed it! 👍🏻😆😆
There is a recent video of a graduation year of La Scala School in RUclips, and the whole exam was done on pointe! Barre and center!!
Of course, she used the experience of her forerunners. Take a look at my big comment above if you are interested
Monsieur August Bournonville is the OP of *Never skip leg day* comment about a couple of centuries before the internet existed. Credit to him!😉
Amaaaazing video, ladies🙌🏼🧛🏻♀️🖤
Edit: I was born soviet so, vaganovalieber.
So what style you were trained in? Was waiting for the anwser the whole video
I don't know the answer, but I did notice them using the Cecchetti arm position names...
Hello,
I'm a former French ballet soloist and a great lover of 'classical' dance as we call it in France.
I really like your approach and your vision of dance and thank you for the very interesting content you share with us.
It's true that French ballet is marvellous and the lines are very pure. On the other hand, I think that today it has lost its way.
You mention the Paris Opéra because it's a showcase abroad but, to be honest, today it's not the best showcase at all.
Rudolf Nureyev was indeed an exceptional dancer and he did a great deal to develop the role of the man in ballet, but for those who love the romanticism of ballet, of which I am one, he did a great deal to erase it.
For many years now, the Paris Opera has been replacing its choreographies by Marius Petipa and others with those of Rudolf Nureyev.
They are sometimes more technical but, frankly, we have lost the romanticism that characterised 'ballet à la française'.
Violette Verdy, who was director of the Paris Opéra Ballet for five years, made the same observation back in 1980. The Paris Opéra currently trains very good technicians, but interpretation has been lost...
At present, the only star who retains this delicacy of interpretation is Park Sae Eun, and she is Korean...
So now you understand my point of view.
French ballet used to be one of the best in the world, but today Danish, German, American, Russian and Asian ballets have done a much better job of preserving this marvel of romanticism that is ballet.
I'm aware that what I'm about to say will upset some people, but you should know that there are many current and former European dancers who feel the same way, and I'm very saddened by this.
In a short while, I'll be moving to Asia and I'm looking forward to discovering ballet companies and other types of dance because, fortunately, this continent loves its traditions.
Thank you for reading this far. :)
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All my last visits to the Paris Opera have been disappointments. In my opinion, they are too keen on contemporary pieces.
Much of ballet today are using tricks to substitute for the elegance and beauty of ballet.
My daughter’s ballet school trains in ISTD Imperial Classical which we’ve been told is based on the French Style. She is going to a summer intensive at a school that teaches the Vaganova style. We were able to watch a masterclass and the teacher commented on how my dancer (and others) was only raising her leg to 90 degrees. I was thinking because it’s perfectly placed, and her hips are square. Her teacher is a little worried that their style is going to impact her technique. We will see.
Ballet nerd here 🤓 , not a dancer, but Vaganova or French are my favorites to watch (if I have to choose) 💕 ✨️
As someone who started as an adult I've basically gotten a mishmash of everything except Balanchine in training - and then had to remember which teachers prefers which type of placement and movement... an added challenge! When watching ballet, I feel like any style can be beautiful and it ultimately depends on the dancer and whether their choice of movement effectively portrays their/the choreography's intention.
I loved this video and I hope you do a similar video for contemporary styles of dance too! Cunningham, Graham, Horton, "SYTYCD-style" haha
As someone who only really has heard of the Balanchine style (but never sure what other the other syles of Classic ballet were and how to spot the difference between them) I found this video incredibly insightful.
I am definitely french style trained with an hint of Bourgonville (my head placement especially) and I honestly love it. I always feel a bit regal when dancing even if I was dancing as a village girl
So when I was younger I was trained in more RAD style but when I came back to ballet at the studio I'm currently dancing at they are Balanchine trained which was so different from what I was used to. One thing I want to point out is when we do our frappé we always start from sur le cou de pied before we do the frappé. Also y'all were spot on about teachers having us hold balls in our hands to get the "Balanchine claw". One thing I noticed was that I gained so much strength in my speed in order to do all of the fast steps and variations.
I am due to being from Copenhagen a Bournonville fan but of course I love other styles too. There are different ballets coreographed in and for different styles and that is good. Russian themes need a Russian style and American themes an American. It is also a joy to see the same theme danced in different styles. It would be boring to see the same coreography and the same theme repeateted again and again. Sometimes it is a new beautiful experience and sometimes it all goes wrong. It must be that way because ballet is an art and not a simple reproduction.
We LOVE Bournonville… but yall know that already 😂😂 great points u brought up, absolutely agree ✨✨
When Mariinsky does Balanchine, it definitely goes wrong!
That is the way that art works. There is no defined outcome. You cant expexct that everything is to your liking. I am however convinced that they did their best. Marinsky does not do things halfways.
@@firstlast6109 What the Russians do most of the time is to slow the tempo. Tempos are the critical basis of Balanchine's choreography. I'm not the only person to make this point.
@@philzmusic8098 Mariinsky are perfectionists and perfection takes time. However if the tempo is important , they will cone up last.
Im RAD trained but I love some of the Cecchetti excercises and how precise it is. That said, I love how dancey and flowey RAD can be. You can probably learn something special from each of the styles. Love the video eeeeeee ♥♥♥♥♥
Yes!! Each style has their unique flair and are so fun to dance in their own way ✨✨✨. Thanks for watching! Glad u enjoyed 😆😆
I always think - the most French dancer: Sophie Guillem. Watch her, you’ll understand. _And_…
For a real thrill, watch Diana Vishneva (Vaganova school dancer) perform “Rubies” (Balanchine ballet).
Thanks, Ladies! So interesting and informative, as usual.
ABSOLUTELYYY 🤩🤩
I am in Australia and to me ballet was just ballet. I had no idea about the different techniques. Thank you very much for your informative presentation. Like all little girls I wanted to do ballet, but I was born with deformed feet and it was not possible. But that doesn't stop me watching and admiring. I have loved your explanation of individual ballets and I would love to see more. THANK YOU❤❤❤
I grew up watching Ballanchine, so when I started watching other styles I thought everyone moved too slowly and I thought costumes got in the way! I have come to appreciate other styles now. Thank you for this video.
balanchine trained at SAB for 6 years - in the lowest levels (for 6-8 year olds), we were taught to cup our hands with all of our fingers but our pinkies (creating a kind of "O" shape with the hands). the pinky would stick out as if youre holding a teacup. after a few years, we were told to release our pointer and ring fingers but keep our middle finger and thumbs touching. and then a few years after THAT, you would release the middle finger and end up with a balanchine claw.
I think a contributor of why balanchine dancers have such good musicality is that all students who go through intermediate levels at SAB are required to take music classes (covering music theory, basic piano skills, aural training, etc)
and in combinations, musicality is played with a lot even from a young age, doing the same skills but on different counts/for different lengths of time/etc.
ooh, no wonder then!@@nixonstan628
@@nixonstan628 Balanchine could read orchestral scores; he could have had a career as a conductor. Hence the great musicality of all his choreography. "See the music, hear the dance."
Musicality cannot be taught - you either have it or you don't. Keeping in time is not musicality. Those who have it appear to have the music flowing out of them.@nixonstan628
@Homerun153 i disagree, especially when teaching kids from a young age. if this were true then balanchine wouldn't have a reputation of extraordinary musicality in the dancers he trains.
Vagonava all the way ❤️ so beautiful and love the incorporation of directions of the body at barre and the use of head and shoulders
Thanks for sharing! We love the Vaganova method and Russian style in general ✨✨
And what is your style @@balletreign
Yay! Highlight of the week 🥰🥰🥰 This is one of my absolute favourite types of video, I was trained RAD but when going to Masterclasses was introduced to Balanchine (not my favourite in all honesty) French which I loved, Vaganova, I loved however being intensively RAD I did find the 'Breaking of Ballet Rules' as my teachers would have said slightly less 'Pure' less Regal/more gymnastic but still amazing, and my teachers definitely did not appreciate the 'Broken Wrist' arm line I tried to sneak into my RAD classes "Long and rounded, never break the wrist Virginia!" One I absolutely ADORE is Bournonville, it's absolutely beautiful and almost a more 'Human' way of moving, such a whimsical style I love it! Okay imma make more tea and actually watch the video now, I'm so excited!!! No doubt I'll be watching at least 5 times as with all Ballet Reign videos 🤣🥰☕☕☕💜💜💜🩰🩰🩰
Hahaha thanks for sharing your experiences! RAD is the complete opposite of Balanchine lol 😂 Thanks for enjoying tea over ballet with us today 😆😆
at least 5x!?! 'grats for adding to their watch hours!
OK girls. Now you pushed me down the Bournonville rabbit hole.... Cecchetti trained, but probably better suited to Bournonville. I do thank my lack of injuries and still being able to move at 45 to my teachers who *never* pushed over turnout or hyperextension (one of my teachers was RAD certified too).
My one request is that you analyze the Pigling Bland and Pigwig pas de deux from the Beatrix Potter ballet. It is one of my favorites of all time.
Я люблю это видео! I love this video. I was trained in Московская государственная академия хореографии - The Bolshoi Ballet Academy. It suits me and my body type well. Growing up I was hyper flexible, active and just always doing the most! My coach from the beginning told me to observe the legendary Ulyana Lopatkina , even though she’s from the Mariinsky to help “manage” my long arms and legs. I also had teachers in the former Soviet republics and former Eastern Bloc who were trained in the Vaganova method, so I got the best of both worlds. I’d say that there’s a head/arm/épaulement to go with every single movement and I still move in the same way sometimes when I’m not dancing. I had the abnormal mobility and fearlessness that makes me love that I found the right home and coach in Yelena Ryabinkina! I appreciate all varieties. I had the joy of dancing one of my favorite PDDs of all time: Flower Festival and yes the Danish beat the petit allegro into me. They’re the happiest onstage, perhaps a serial killer’s dream because of their friendliness (respectfully of course). My other adventure outside the Russian Style was being coached by Gelsey Kirkland in a few Balanchine’s works. At first, I was like Bambi on ice! But I enjoyed the challenge. Balanchine dancers are your over caffeinated friends.
Balanchine made the music 🎼 and equal partner to the choreography. Vaganova placed all the emphasis on PDD, and ironically her only piece of choreography is Diana et Acteon, arguably one of the most glorious and hardest PDDs ever made!
Спасибо большое ☺️🇵🇹🇧🇷🩰 27:55
Thanks as always for sharing ur experience! You had some very incredible coaches in your journey ✨✨✨
Few people know that Vaganova came up with the idea of "swan port de bras" in Swan Lake🦢🦢🦢
Interesting to know the name of your teacher in school !
You young ladies are obviously trained, skilled and experienced. Would love to see you on your feet more often demonstrating the steps and moves.
I have trained in Vaganova, RAD and ENBC (the Cuban style) and ENBC has my heart forever!!! Love the very long sequences and endless pirouettes and the respect on the Latin American body. Alicia Alonso is my everything. Thanks for the video, girls, such a great job!!!
I didn’t realize “the CLAW” was trademark Balanchine! Sometimes professional dancers take class, and there was one with the CLAW. It’s really not my cuppa (imagine me internally screaming at him to fix his hand lol 😂)
This was such a fun and comprehensive video!! As a ballet lover that was not able to get any training as a kid and finally getting started as an adult, I feel like I know so little of the basics, so these types of videos are amazing 😻
I started with the Cecchetti method, and then moved onto RAD. It was tough needing to lose some of the fluidity for RAD exams, but I got there in the end. Every time I see someone cross their arms I hear my teacher scolding me in my head
Very interesting! I’m inclined to like the Vaganova technique. Hence my appreciation for Svetlana Zakarova
"Sweet" is the best way to describe Eden, she is just pure sugar
Why everybody hates RAD system, they say it is for recreational dancing only. Even Royal Ballet hates it
Exactly. Ppl assume RAD is part of the RB, but it is only a recreational thing, and boy, have they dumbed down the syllabus! Many more layers of exams created: a money-making exercise big time😡
I'm learning Ballet as an adult in Korea and they're teaching us the vaganova method here 😆 lmao I'm dying
I wasn't strictly trained in one style growing up, but my training was definitely closer to RAD than anything else. I can still remember my teacher, Mr. David, being VERY clear that we were not to do any sort of extra movement on our port de bras until we were in training company. At that point, usually 8th or 9th grade, we learned some Vaganova techniques. I never learned any Balanchine technique until I took a ballet class at my college. I felt crazy and like I hadn't just spent the last 14 years of my life training in ballet.
Thanks, Jordan and Eden! A Saturday not spent with you ladies is a sad day indeed ...
That video was most informative, interesting - and entertaining! I'm of course biased, living in the UK, so I do believe that the 'mixer' approach we find in the Royal Ballet is best: selecting the best from each school and training their pupils in the Royal Ballet School seems to work. My secret love though is for the Russian ballet, the breathtaking Vaganova girls, spiced up with the strength and artistry of Nureyev, Baryshnikov, Tsiskaridze and the younger dancers such as the death-defying Ivan Vasiliev, all of whom are also great actors.
Awww thanks for spending the day with us! So happy you enjoyed the video. The RB dancers are beautiful indeed, and the Russian style always hits ✨ thanks for sharing your favorites! 👍🏻👍🏻
Seeing NYCB dancing Jewels last year was a revelation. Have seen the kirov dance it live but was like a new ballet with NYCB.
Ofc Balanchine home company is spot on with performing his ballets! 🤩🤩
My little sis loves to watch your vids (she‘s 3 yo). Because of you we are going to enroll her in a ballet school.❤
AWWW this melted our hearts 🥹🥹 thank you so much for watching and for sharing ballet with your sister! ❤️
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As a Vaganova-trained dancer, I heard "drama" and I was CALLED OUT 😂😂😂
As a future ballet historian, I LOVE your guys' videos!! And finally, we have a video honoring the different styles and schools of ballet. BUT I always notice people forget the Cuban style :(
How does one become a ballet historian?? Sounds fascinating
I love the personifications of each style lol
Since I have two left feet, I LOVE watching all the different training methods😵💫 Ummm...Tennis anyone?
I'm 100% a dancer but I'm a huge tennis nerd lolol There's surprisingly many dancers who love watching tennis too 🤣🎾🩰🫶🏻
This was very interesting, because I'm trained with the classical Vaganova style and can regonize things from checcetti (the not 180 turnout and everything arriving at the same time) and french (hands always infront of your body if you don't want to die because the expressivness is only for when the professionals. )
Balanchine trained lol! We were told to hold a tennis ball 😂. Petite allegro was done forward and reversed then with beats added to everything! Did you know you can add a beat to a glissade?😂😂. Grand allegro, you better cover the whole floor no matter how big the space! Absolutely loved it. Suited my body (and I am 5’9”). We also occasionally did barre from plies to grand battlement without stopping. 20 minute barres we’re pretty normal.
How on earth do you add a beat to a glissade?
omg who's out there giving the babies tennis balls, like you're probably 6 years old and the ball thing is only for the earliest training when you still have to touch your thumb and finger together... we got ping pong balls
The studio I danced at from ages 3/4-11 seemed to be very influenced by/ use the RAD style, despite being in America, and using a lot of choreography and all from the New York City Ballet. Like, they were the little sibling to the NYCB big sibling. Exams were strict, and you couldn't even wear clear nail polish haha. We had classes on certain days, and not every day, but we used the same combinations for the year. Though, my studio didn't use that split of those who are more serious and not, it was just you moved up until you passed or you quit/left. Though, that studio had some of its issues and was a small studio, rather than a huge dance school. It's cool to be able to define what style it used and have the knowledge in retrospect! : )
Yesss exams are SO strict lol 😅😅 Thanks for sharing your experiences, it’s def an honor to learn the Balanchine rep ✨
I'll say it again: LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos! I've been obsessed with ballet so long .. and all I needed was somebody explaining it to me in a fun and non-dancer friendly way.
We appreciate the positive feedback! It’s a privilege to share ballet nerdness with dancers and non dancers! 😆😆
also, I will have the privilege to see Svetlana Zakharova dance live in August! 😍
You will have the best time ever! She is a lovely dancer ❤️
This video is amazingly helpful! It's a one-stop shoppe, including all the styles - I have not seen anything so comprehensive before.
Your explanations are clear and easy for new-ish fans/aspiring ballet nerds, to understand.
Giving each style personality traits as if they're human makes each style so relatable and easy to remember.
This video reminds me so much of the first video I ever saw from your channel when I could not hit the "like" and "subscribe" buttons fast enough!
That was your explanation of Swan Lake.
I had watched 3 different channels' videos, and I also read Wikipedia.
It wasn't really sinking in.
But thanks to your Swan Lake video, it all makes sense now!
Your lighthearted teaching style, including lots of humor, is unique. It's obvious you have a deep understanding of the subject matter, and that you are passionate about it. This means the lightheartedness is not frivolous or superficial. (Super🐠 Al! lmao)
Thank you so much for starting this channel and for providing us with a new video every single week!! Your editing is just amazing!!
Happy Easter! 🙏🧡🐰🥕🐣🎶🩰🕯️🌛
Aww thanks so much for such a positive comment! We’re so happy that our videos can help you understand and appreciate ballet on a deeper level. Thanks for joining us this Saturday, we’re so happy you enjoyed it 😆😆
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Such a nice companion piece to a book my sister and I are reading together: "Apollo's Angels", by Jennifer Homans! Thanks!
looking forward to this! i go to two studios (one for ballet and one general) and the ballet school teaches vaganova but general teaches balanchine. thank you for making this, very excited to step my ballet nerd game up haha
Hope you enjoyed it!! 😆😆. Vaganova and Balanchine are pretty different but def have some similarities 👍🏻
I was wondering about this. I'm not a dancer, and it seems to me that it would be very difficult to remember eg. your wrist placement and details like that when you are changing between styles.
For someone trained exclusively in one style, but they can't get a job at a "that style" company, how difficult would it be to adjust to a different style? Or does that depend on the individual and/ or the styles?
I'm not sure if what I wrote is clear. Also, I'm sure you're very busy and may not have time to answer.
Regardless, happy Easter! 🙏🧡🐰
😊🫶🏼 I loved this. I was a cecchetti gal, turned RAD at the end. Always preferred by Cecchetti really, I think it's in my muscle memory still! 😅
to me vagonova and Balanchine are opposite ends of the spectrum vagonova method focuses a lot on the physics of the body and balancing weight. it's less about dynamic movment and more about moving through shapes in a way that conserves energy and brings balance. the main criticism of vagonova is that it can look stiff and heavy, almost clumsy. balanchine method is the total opposite. it's all about the energy that surrounds your body and shaping and expressing that energy. it's all about movement and truly expressing the music in every part of the body, often in ways that are very very energetic. it's light, bright, agile and energetic. the main criticism of balanchine style is that it sometimes sacrifices clean, traditional technique for expression and musicality, which some find "muddies" the legacy of ballet. I personally love balanchine method and appreciate that it always requires that it's dancers devote their movements to expressing the music - the music always comes first!
This was so educational for a non-dancer! What style do you ladies train?
This is the most extensive, detailed, and ENTERTAINING portrayal of the different ballet styles that I have EVER come across on RUclips. And I have really been looking out for it for quite some time. Big thank you from a German ballet fan!
Welcome and thank you so much for your kind comment. Big hugs and greetings to all our German ballet fans from the USA 🇺🇸 🇩🇪
Definitely a big fan of the Royal Ballet. But my favourite ballet dancer will always be Aurelie Dupont ☺️
Wow I loved this video! I actually didn't knew about all these styles so it was really interesting! I guess from your explanation, my favorite style could be Vaganova (hopefully I wrote it correctly HAHAHAH) - simply because it reminded me of what my dance teacher used to tell me whenever I dance, which was the fact that we had to dance big in order to let the crowd in the back could see us as much as the front row. It made me think of those times despise I never dance ballet even though I would love to! ❤
I can totally imagine me and the Balanchine friend leave a party or sleepover at 3 am for a snack run, headbopping intensely to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. The people in the people in the cars next to us would be severely concerned...
ABSOLUTELY 🤣🤣
I’d like to hear how dancers adapt when they move to a company with a different style. How much are they expected to re-form their technique? Like, has Vadim Muntagirov become more RAD in movement after being at the Royal Ballet?
OMGGGG I’ve been waiting for this video for a long time! I can’t wait to watch!!!😆😊
Can’t wait for tomorowwww 🎉🎉🎉
Still ballet after all these years...love it. Thanks, Ladies😊
Thanks for watchingggg 😆😆
@@balletreigna great pleasure 🙏 ☺️
I’m not trained in balenchine but I’m going to PNB this summer for summer intensive very excited to learn
That’s wonderful!! Sounds like you have a very fun summer ahead of you! 😆😆
I like that a Cecchetti pirouette takes off from the center. It can easily go in any direction.
Very good video girls, i didnt know anything about those styles but now i'll be able to look at more details and understand better what the dancers I follow are doing! Thank you ❤
You mentioned Sara Mearns! I saw her live as Juliet with the National Ballet of Canada :)
That must have been incredible! She is soooo good in dramatic roles ✨✨
omg i looooved this vid so much i had always wanted to know which were the differences!! i kind of was hoping you'd mention the cuban style but thanks so much for your hard work girls!! luv u
What a beautifuly explained episode! Thank you. Here in Romania we study mostly Vaganova but is so nice to see all these styles.
Hey guys, I am really looking forward to this. Your videos are awesome 💙💙💙
Aww thanks!! We’re so excited for the premiere tomorrowwww 🎉🎉
I really enjoyed this Video and learned a lot. I prefer the English style but the training of the French Style ist much more fun.
With regards to the RAD I find aligning the higher grades(6.7.8) with the vocational grades to be realyy beneficial for techbique and expression, not a great fan of tricks for tricks sake but if performed with strength and solid technique wow.I love parts of all the techniques that suit my body and will willingly use them all.
Oh! This video is going to cover what I've been wanting to learn about! I can clearly tell the difference between contemporary and classical but while I recognize subtle differences between different classical ballet styles, I couldn't quite pinpoint what exactly is different...🤔 Looking forward seeing this video soon~❤ Thanks in advance for covering this topic! 😍
this is exactly where im at too!! i broadly recognise how some variations (thats probably 2 of them) r danced by either russian or the others and know how to sport a russian dancer from another western dancer but not pinpoint it.. to me its all very "russian and the others" in terms of distinguishing styles right now
It’s your lucky day! This is def an elusive part of ballet culture so we were happy to cover it ✨
I am an adult beginner who has loved Russian ballet for a long time, and honestly, being able to learn this style from a Vaganova trainer teacher means everything for me! Sure I won't have the flat turnout or hyperextensions, but still, learning the positions of the head, use of the arms and back, the epaulement and overall coordination I feel is very applicable to recreational ballet, and it just makes me feel beautiful ❤️🩰
Cuando Jordan y Edén dicen: "espero que hayan disfrutado este video", literal, yo dije en mi mente: "lo disfrute y lo ame de pies a cabeza, es más, lo estuve esperando"
I am both in personality and taste very Balanchine, but unfortunately, it isn't taught where I live.
This was such a good video, super important and fun subject, and managed to cover so much whilst being entertaining all the way through! Love love love this channel ❤
Thanks for sharing your favorite, we’re so glad you enjoyed the video! We appreciate your kind and positive feedback, thank u sm ✨❤️❤️
I love nerding out about this stuff! I had an amazing teacher in high school who taught Vagonova technique but with a few key modifications, the most obvious of which is that we were not taught to force our turnout. Instead we were encouraged to work within our turnout range, which included allowing the leg to be slightly in front of the body in a la seconde if necessary. This video makes me wonder if she was also inspired by the Cecchetti method because often times we were taught about how a position should feel and what muscles we should be using instead of forcing a position, and there was an understanding that certain positions would look different on different bodies.
I only danced briefly when I was little before I switched to music. I ended up performing a LOT of ballets and working tons of dancers. My favorite dancers to work with were proudly vaganova disciples.
I'm an adult beginner in my second year of learning ballet. My teacher seems to borrow from several different influences. I would definitely be interested in exploring Cechetti method for myself! I love that style's emphasis on ballet being for all bodies, not just ones with 180° of turnout or hyperextended knees. I'm also really interested to learn more about Bournonville. I come from an acting background and I love history, so I enjoy things that allow us a glimpse into the past. And I love that style's stance that watching ballet should be approachable for everyone.
This video was wonderful!
Loved our live chats, girls~❤
I re-watched the video because I wanted to really focus on the video this time 😂
I'm just so surprised how subtle differences in each ballet style had so much differences in overall impression! Tbh, I didn't think small things like head position would cause that much impact but after you girls pointed that out, I could finally figure out why they looked so "welcoming" vibe and feels like a "big hug" 😂 (bournonville). Checcetti part still drops my jaw even though this is 2nd time watching! 😱 Veganova looks so grandiose and glam in my eyes 👀 I love Balanchine works but I'm so sad that nycb doesn't really release their ballets digitally and when they do, they don't do a good job 😢 (compared to Bolshoi and Royal Ballet) the camera works fail to capture the full picture of the whole dance, which is disappointing 😭
Anyway, thank you so much creating such an informative video! 🥰 Now I will be mindful of which technique each ballet theater uses whenever I watch ballet ❤
I hope you girls have a wonderful Easter~ See you girls next time! 👋
You are both so knowledgeable, elegant and sweet ✨️✨️✨️ thanks for another great video!
I really enjoyed this; one of your best.
This made our day 😁😁 Thank u so much!
I love how you guys edited the video!
My first exposure to live ballet performance was NYCB at Saratoga performing arts center during the summers when I was in middle and high school (we lived about 5 miles away.) I think I saw the entire Balanchine repertoire and really appreciated the speed, athleticism (Balanchine male dancers are breathtaking), musicality and weirdness. I love ballets without a story because I really appreciate the music and body movement instead of the tutus and pantomime.
The first time I saw an ABT production in person, I was bored. Balanchine ruined me. I guess I prefer dancers who are actually dancing and not just moving from position to position. I’d love to see the other companies you mention and suspect that I’d really like Paris Opera Ballet.
I danced The Flower Festival at my graduation performance, and the boys had those funny black and white ballet shoes! I got really good at pirouettes in 5th and petit batterie, for sure! Excellent video, ladies!
One of our faves!! 🌸😆😆 the Bournonville style is so much fun to dance. Thanks for sharing your experience and for watching this video! ✨✨
I barely know ballet so I love videos like this. And the editing plus perfect captions make it so nice to watch
Yay! So exited to watch this!
We hope you enjoy 😆😆✨✨
I personally like to teach the Vaganova technique but hearing other teaching methods I find de RAD more friendly to young students. Maybe I’ll start doing it that way 😅