I’ve done Nutcrackers in many different countries and I’ve never escaped ONE ☝🏻 season without a blizzard situation. People don’t realize how slippery it can get. Once, we were doing grand jetés en manège and the girl in front of me fell and I leapt over her like a horse jumping over an obstacle course. It was in Romania 🇷🇴 and I was fresh out of the academy…😂🇧🇷🇵🇹🇺🇦🇷🇺🩰
I watched all three of your Fails Reaction videos last night while recovering from exhaustion after a four day migraine and the laughter was so what I needed! That music mishap reminds me of an incident former British ballerina Antoinette Sibley mentioned while performing LA Bayadere in Brazil: "We were using a stage up one end, but they'd sold tickets right round the whole stadium. So there were 2000 or 3000 people who had tickets & weren't being allowed in because these seats could no longer be occupied because they were backstage. There was hysteria outside. We had begun the performance, & they were still trying to get into the theater. They'd paid for their tickets, black market lots of them, & the police still wouldn't let them in; they were coshing them on the head & putting them in vans. Well, the noise was so much that it drowned the music. "Now if you can imagine 32 girls coming down the ramp to no music! How do they know when to do it? We only know by the music, and not by anything else. So Anthony [Dowell] went one side, I went the other, & we counted it for them, singing the counts. Well they came off & burst out crying from the strain, & then it was the pas de trois and we sang all their bit for them. And of course we came to go on & there was nobody to sing for us, nobody at all. They were all hysterical. We were by ourselves. We came on with no music & nobody to sing to us & Bayadere's hard enough anyway! We were in such a state afterwards I don't think we ever knew what we'd done & what we hadn't done. You see, we didn't know if people were getting killed out there. We didn't know the tickets had been sold. We thought it was a revolution going on. For us, it was just bloodcurdling screams."
5:41 you know that girl’s life was flashing before her eyes for a few moments there. Not a dancer but falling upside down is still the scariest thing ever 😂
I do ballet with Pacific Northwest Ballet, and I was a Polichinelle for 2 years. But in the 2023 Nutcracker season, Mother Ginger’s pantaloons were too long, and so we were trapped under the skirt when Mother Ginger fell, and the crew had to lower the curtain and help us out.
Mayara Magri fell on her ass in the Don Q act 3 PDD in November. That was being live streamed to cinemas around the world and the king and queen were in the theatre. I felt so bad for her, but she bounced right back up and kept going.
man, i wish i knew how much pros messed up when i was still doing ballet. my perfectionism (and the perfectionism drilled into me by my studio) REALLY screwed me up and made me feel bad for not being able to be some incredible prodigy who got things the very first try. this is strangely comforting! also the pointe shoe asmr from the swan lake mishap >>>>>>>
My first year on point, when I was warming up for the recital, one of the little kids in the academy's tumbling class ran by, knocked into me, and I went from on point to on the floor in half a moment. Went ahead and danced the recital, sat through dinner with my family, and on the way home, "Hey mom, my ankle is bothering me, I think I need to go to the ER." Ended up with a bad sprain that took 10 weeks of PT to get back under control...
Sooo many of these are *exactly* the reason why I glued suede tips onto my pointe shoes! I had something similar to video #1 happen to me during "Anything Goes". The guy didn't catch me... I had a bruised tailbone for a week. 🤣
I loved watching this video and I had so many laughs! I totally agree that every year SOMETHING happens during snow scene! This year I was snow queen and on my opening night there were some set issues, so the curtain closed WHILE I was dancing! We were all safe and it went great when the curtains reopened, but seeing the curtain close when your turning is something I never thought I’d ever experience! 😂
omg yeah when i was in snow corps, my ending pose i was in the splits at the front of the stage and every time the curtain closed it would close OVER MY FRONT FOOT. the director wouldnt let me move back so i just had to time perfectly to pull my foot in without the audience seeing
The snow dumping at once was so funny…no one could straight face after that! Some of the others were terrifying…gravity can be scary! When the woman hit the wall I yelled “expletive deleted” her knee.”
Me too…it’s that darn trust thing. You really have to feel him, trust him. And if I wasn’t caught, yes…I’d be angry too. But only for a while. It wouldn’t happen again, that’s the relief
Oh my goodness, girls! 😂 I love all your reactions! 😂😂 I also really love how you how you explained the reasons behind the fails and not shaming the "mistakes" that happened 🥹 Because in truth, learning comes from mistakes and it's just an another opportunity to move forward. I rarely comment on RUclips videos but I just find you two girls so charming that I couldn't resist!❤ Thanks for your videos! ❤❤ By any chance, would you two review other ballet animations like "Princess Tutu" or "Dance Dance Danseur"? Princess Tutu is a fairytale anime with ballet elements (and gorgeous classical musics) while Dance Dance Danseur is more serious take on a boy who wants to become a Danseur (with some romance). Maybe you girls can review how real these animations portray ballet moves or where these moves come from? And perhaps for Dance Dance Danseur, you girls can explain what's it really like to be a student who's aiming to become a professional ballet dancers! Maybe do episode by episode review like how those RUclips doctors reviewing "Cells at work" episodes. 😂 It's just a suggestion but I'd really appreciate it if you do decide to do it. 🤩 Thanks again, J&E! ❤
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! We’re happy u liked the video. Love what u said about making mistakes; they always open opportunities for learning and going forward stronger 👏🏻👏🏻 We have received many requests for reviewing ballet anime and we would love to look into it! Stay tuned 😉😉
@@balletreignOh my!!😍 How exciting!! Now my anticipation for your next video is in another level!🤩 Thank you girls for your consideration and I hope to see you guys release another video soon! ❤ Have a wonderful day~
there are two famous prima ballerinas' falls on YT : Sylvie Guillem in Sleeping Beauty, and Svetlana Zakharova in Giselle, they both fell on their own but in both cases, the stage looked slippery af......and they get back on their pointe shoes very gracefuly🤪
YES we reviewed the Giselle one in a previous ballet “fails” video, that one was hardddd 😓😓 being proficient in executing perfectly and also recovering from errors is what makes a pro ✨✨
Omg, I’ve had so many music mishaps like that last one. Once it started before we were on stage, a couple of times it’s stopped in the middle of it, sometimes the wrong music has played or it’s been too loud/quiet and we just had to stand there and look like it was all ok lol. I’m terrified if it ever stops and we continue and then it starts in its old place 😭 I guess that’s what we get for being a small studio without the best sound tech tho!
I saw Jewels performed at the Lincoln Center Festival by the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet performing Rubies, Emeralds and Diamonds respectively. What a fabulous experience. I went twice. Someone fell during Rubies and crawled off the stage. The Corp formed a group and did the pony step around her while the Principles went to the front and did some spectacular moves. The live music didn't miss a beat! Later on the subway, I asked others if they had seen it and no one had. A ballet miracle! That's the thrill of a live performance. When me and my son go we are nudging each other when we see tiny mistakes. I would love to see a video on bad pirouette turns by male dancers. Some wind up so far in the other direction and they don't hit the fourth position. This is my pet peeve. Once I started noticing it I saw it everywhere!
I wish it was recorded but during rehearsals for our spring production last year I had an entrance with two other dancers and we had to run in from stage right into upstage center and as I was running upstage I slipped and fell. There was a slick spot on our marley and I didn't know it but I sure felt it lol. Our teacher stopped the music to ask me if I was alright but all I could do was laugh.
RUclips would not let me reply so I hope you see this: you’re 100% right and I meant no disrespect or was being mean. You nailed it: I started doing cartwheels, climbing the furniture, the walls, the trees… I was like a little monkey 🙈 always doing weird stuff with my body to freak out my parents and frankly because I wanted to see if I could. Thankfully they put me in ballet academy in Moscow and I became a professional ballerina 🩰 It never occurred to me that I was the crazy one until I randomly showed my new husband that I could cartwheel to both sides and I asked him to show me HIS cartwheel. He’s a football player and looked at me like I was nuts. For me record, I have zero hand eye coordination. Melo wlw
Score : 14. I either laugh or cringe in pain :P About the last one. We once had a defaut cd and the music was accelerating, decerelating, skipping counts. We dance the entire 3 minutes choreography on sync with a interesting music piece. Our dance director made us redance it right away on the proper music (backup cd) fing proud of that moment with our dance group. So in SYNC!
We tried a new kind of snow for our nutcracker this year and we uh. are NEVER using that snow again oh my goodness. it got in the dancer's eyes and got stuck there, making it hard for them to see- you get some of that all the time but this snow was so small and it was this weird plasticy stuff that was hard to get out of things- NOPE!!!! i was so worried one of the girls would inhale some and start choking, or get a scratch on her eye from it
End pose story: I talked! Like I messed up something and at the end I was just like “SH*T I messed up!” 😭😭 not ballet tho but we’re still supposed to like, not talk😂😂
Ladies again you have been inspirational. My 3rd book is currently in the writing process and the girls involved are beginning to learn Pas De Deux so I might put a couple of these fails in just for fun
Probably the scariest lift I've ever seen was from the tv show Find me in Paris. One of the characters actually was so injured in the story he could never dance again, ended up following his choreographer dreams.
Sorry girls - This is not a mistake by the boy (5.41) but 3 mistakes by the girl! 1. her hand belongs on the boy's upper arm! 2. the take-off leg remains vertically downwards. 3. she must bend sideways so that his hand can lift under her ribcage. … Prof. Tappendorff
We do have spotters in the beginning of the process, but once the dancers get the hang of it we lose the spotters and try not to have any accidents (although, of course, they always do) 😉😉
No worries!! We’ll catch you sometime afterwards. We’re wishing you nothing but the best for your show and cheering u on!! You got this, go out there and kill it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The Cartwheel Duo was gold!!! The other day I realized not everyone can do a Cartwheel. Like what???!!! I can do them to both sides. That one dude threw the other one over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. The commitment! Bravo 👏🏻 😂
some of us (notably me) have rly bad spatial awareness and movement coordination and bad back strength i feel like the people i know who can do cartwheels could do them since childhood so they "always" had the back strength, or they learned it early enough to develop it without actively doing back strengthening exercises thats what i imagine anyways, because i know i would absolutely have to do back strengthening exercises before learning to do them
I had a funny fail. I’m not much good at turns and we were doing turns across the room. (FtM dancer here) I was doing a double, fell out of it and landed in a press up position. My teacher screamed and I couldn’t stop laughing for about 5 minutes
Thanks for the compliment. I have no idea how I did it! I was off balance and was gonna land flat on my face and wreck my glasses. I wasn’t about to pay for a new pair so I somehow managed to land in a press up! It was very funny
So me getting ran over by other kids during a maypole dance when I was ~5 and it actually got put on America's Funniest Home Videos from one of the other parents I know to the video is out there somewhere but I haven't been able to find it again.
It was a mixed age group and the girls behind me were a little older and a lot bigger than I. It was very tiny fiat against monster trucks at Nascar it was bad lol
I've never been a part of the ballet world apart from some lessons I remember vaguely from when I was like, 5, but I am so glad to be learning about this art form from you! Ballet is so gorgeous and looks so elegant, but seeing stuff like this reminds me of all my marching band fails. You commit to the bit and try not to get hurt! You've definitely earned a subscriber, I can't wait to learn more about ballet!
I’m doing good. I’m sore from yesterday’s double Recital and then I was super duper sick for 2 days before that but like we are gonna make today work. Thank you for asking!
ITS ALWAYS ARABESQUE ok so I’m my abt exam rehersal not too long ago we were doing our pointe across the floor combos and were on the left side I was in the last group and the end had an arabesque hold and I held it for so long and just as I thought to myself “wow u r really balancing well” I saw the floor right infront of my face AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I FELL I JUST INSTINCTIVELY CAUGHT MYSELF XD (I fell bc my supporting leg’s foot winged and so I was literally on the corner of the box)
I’m not a professional but I once landed a pirouette on my butt right in front of my teacher. Then there was the time we were working on cabrioles. I finally managed to get one to the back but then I forgot to separate my legs and crashed to the floor. My teacher said I was there and then I was gone. I didn’t know what had happened. I just knew I was suddenly on the floor. I didn’t even know I had succeeded in the cabriole until my teach told me I had gotten my legs together but hadn’t separated them to land it.
19:00 Girls - you have zero knowledge! Can’t you recognize, that the girl did not jump at all, kept her upper body straight, so he could not grab under the rip cage and on top: she let the working leg fly over 90 degrees and made the lift almost impossible… the man was a hero!
7.09: this is happened, when a girl falls to her standing leg in arabesque (common mistake). Don’t blame the poor partner, who has to lift this already falling girl!!!
Ohhh my goodness, so many dance fails over the years. One of the ones I remember most clearly is falling on my ass during tap class. I was Very Pregnant at the time and everyone in class was freaking out. And obviously the baby was fine, they're very well protected in there. (He's 18 now so I think we're good.) Pointe shoes are hecking slippery but so are tap shoes! Honestly, dancing was taking my life in my hands at every turn. (Pun: intentional lol.) Another one I remember was during a performance. I had to get to the other side of the stage for my next entrance and rather than my dance teacher just... choreographing that in somewhere? Nah. I had to run allllllll the way around. Except our theater had no crossover behind the curtain so I had to run offstage left, down the stairs, through the big band/staging room, past the dressing rooms, up the stairs, and over to stage right. Unfortunately, I fell - kind of hard - while running. But I didn't have time to check on myself even though I could definitely feel it in my ankle. Got up (and ignored the people who were like "are you okay?"" because I had To GOOOOO), kept running, and made it back on stage with not a soul knowing that I'd hurt myself until much later. I think I was like 15? 16? I'm 43 now and the thought of getting up and running after falling makes me lowkey wanna die LOL. But I guess with enough adrenaline, anything is possible. And (to wrap this LONG comment up), thank you for the check-in! I'm okay, though my vacation is ending and I have to return to work tomorrow. :(
Are y’all still doing Ballet Reign Academy? I’ve tried reaching out several ways and haven’t heard back in weeks, I was really excited to take a class when I saw y’all were so close to me!
FLASHING LIGHT EFFECT at 18:44-18:49. Sorry, but this is migraine-inducing and may cause seizures. Please give adequate warning within the video and the description and possibly a pinned comment. ... just like you did with the scream warning a minute later. That looked very painful. I'm really sorry! I've never said anything critical before but there has never been any need for that. The video is fantastic! Did you know that for some of these bloopers, I couldn't even tell that there was a problem? 14:05 literally crying with laughter! What is the name of the music at the outro, please? Thank you for the video! 🙏🩰🌂🦢🦆🍀🎶🌛
Thanks, we’ll pass that note on to the BR team. Glad you enjoyed the video and thought it was funny! The music for the outro is a polonaise from the sleeping beauty 🌸
Idk how yall always manage to use music from the exact pieces I'm learning at the time that the video comes out, I was watching this after rehearsal when I heard the maid of honor music from Sleeping Beauty which is the piece I literally just worked on...
14:35 i once had to do this with my acrobatic partner, it did not help i was almost a foot taller than her at the time (lucky though whenever we had to do partner work because i was taller i was always the base and we danced together since we were 2 and 3 so the trust you need for those tricks was already there) this was one of the few times she had to support me and luckily it was on a momentum based trick otherwise i don’t think she’d be able to do it 😅 we nailed it though but never did it again 😭
This is why Kathryn Morgan tells ballet students watching her YT vids. Do not practice your fouettes, pirouettes & other difficult stuff at home. The studio is a controlled environment. Your home with its concrete or hard wood floor & narrower spaces is not.
I LOVE a good fails video but I only enjoy watching the professionals failing. It gives me no pleasure to watch students or pre professional dancers struggling UNLESS they are like that badass dancer from Ohio who submitted her fail (btw, so much respect as I’d totally do that myself - but first make fun of thyself!). I recently watched a professional RUclips video of the Flames of Paris PDD and I wasn’t ready for it but this beautiful ballerina fell hard on me variation and as a professional, she got up and continued like the pro she is. Please, next time, make a compilation of professional ballerinas and danseurs. 25:12
Hi ladies, I love your content but I won't watch this one. I just can't watch fails in ballet dancing. It would break my heart. Alone the idea of people dedicating their life to the beauty of dancing and beeing so infortunate after so many hours, weeks, months and years of work and self discipline... I feel so sorry for them. But thank you anyway and keep on the good work. See you next week !
OMG I CANT BELIEVE YOU ACTUALLY REACTED TO MY VIDEO LMAO
also i am fine :)
You just got ballet nerded 😆😆. Seriously, thanks sm for sending it in! You handled it *exquisitely* and THANK YOU for the follow up lol 😂
You are so brave to submit your own video! I am very impressed! I’m glad that you were not injured! 🙏💜🍀🦋✨
That was fun! And like you, I hope everyone was able to get up and carry on without injury. Otherwise, I’d feel bad about laughing!
I’ve done Nutcrackers in many different countries and I’ve never escaped ONE ☝🏻 season without a blizzard situation. People don’t realize how slippery it can get. Once, we were doing grand jetés en manège and the girl in front of me fell and I leapt over her like a horse jumping over an obstacle course. It was in Romania 🇷🇴 and I was fresh out of the academy…😂🇧🇷🇵🇹🇺🇦🇷🇺🩰
Yes! That snow is so unpredictable Lol ballet mishaps are so common and dancers share them like war stories we’ve survived 😂💗
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A Production isn't a Production without at least one SNAFU 🩰 😂
I watched all three of your Fails Reaction videos last night while recovering from exhaustion after a four day migraine and the laughter was so what I needed!
That music mishap reminds me of an incident former British ballerina Antoinette Sibley mentioned while performing LA Bayadere in Brazil:
"We were using a stage up one end, but they'd sold tickets right round the whole stadium. So there were 2000 or 3000 people who had tickets & weren't being allowed in because these seats could no longer be occupied because they were backstage. There was hysteria outside. We had begun the performance, & they were still trying to get into the theater. They'd paid for their tickets, black market lots of them, & the police still wouldn't let them in; they were coshing them on the head & putting them in vans. Well, the noise was so much that it drowned the music.
"Now if you can imagine 32 girls coming down the ramp to no music! How do they know when to do it? We only know by the music, and not by anything else. So Anthony [Dowell] went one side, I went the other, & we counted it for them, singing the counts. Well they came off & burst out crying from the strain, & then it was the pas de trois and we sang all their bit for them. And of course we came to go on & there was nobody to sing for us, nobody at all. They were all hysterical. We were by ourselves. We came on with no music & nobody to sing to us & Bayadere's hard enough anyway! We were in such a state afterwards I don't think we ever knew what we'd done & what we hadn't done. You see, we didn't know if people were getting killed out there. We didn't know the tickets had been sold. We thought it was a revolution going on. For us, it was just bloodcurdling screams."
5:41 you know that girl’s life was flashing before her eyes for a few moments there. Not a dancer but falling upside down is still the scariest thing ever 😂
That one had us like 😱😱
last nutcracker during snow so much snow fell in the ending that half of us fell out of our poses 😭😭
Oh no!! Nothing like a good snow dump 😅😅❄️❄️
I do ballet with Pacific Northwest Ballet, and I was a Polichinelle for 2 years. But in the 2023 Nutcracker season, Mother Ginger’s pantaloons were too long, and so we were trapped under the skirt when Mother Ginger fell, and the crew had to lower the curtain and help us out.
Mayara Magri fell on her ass in the Don Q act 3 PDD in November. That was being live streamed to cinemas around the world and the king and queen were in the theatre. I felt so bad for her, but she bounced right back up and kept going.
we saw! She recovered remarkably quickly and sold the show till the end 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
is the live stream available anywhere?
I was watching that livestream, with the king and queen there, and I didn't even realise she'd had a fall. Such professionalism!
man, i wish i knew how much pros messed up when i was still doing ballet. my perfectionism (and the perfectionism drilled into me by my studio) REALLY screwed me up and made me feel bad for not being able to be some incredible prodigy who got things the very first try. this is strangely comforting!
also the pointe shoe asmr from the swan lake mishap >>>>>>>
OMG. GRACE! You’r knee!!! Ouch
My first year on point, when I was warming up for the recital, one of the little kids in the academy's tumbling class ran by, knocked into me, and I went from on point to on the floor in half a moment. Went ahead and danced the recital, sat through dinner with my family, and on the way home, "Hey mom, my ankle is bothering me, I think I need to go to the ER." Ended up with a bad sprain that took 10 weeks of PT to get back under control...
OH NO 😥😥sprains are nasty, but glad you recovered… PT is very helpful ✨
The Dutch National Ballet’s reenactment of the Mean Girls Trust Fall scene though…
“She doesn’t even go here.”😂
Sooo many of these are *exactly* the reason why I glued suede tips onto my pointe shoes!
I had something similar to video #1 happen to me during "Anything Goes". The guy didn't catch me... I had a bruised tailbone for a week.
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14:42 FORWARDDDD
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14:46 “support ur local minions today” got me dying 😂😂😂
23:35 i’m doing great thx for asking 😊😊
HAHA 🤣🤣 thanks for laughing with us today!
I loved watching this video and I had so many laughs! I totally agree that every year SOMETHING happens during snow scene! This year I was snow queen and on my opening night there were some set issues, so the curtain closed WHILE I was dancing! We were all safe and it went great when the curtains reopened, but seeing the curtain close when your turning is something I never thought I’d ever experience! 😂
LOL 😂😂 thanks for sharing your story, that must have been so surprising! Glad to hear the show went on and that everyone was ok 😆😆
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omg yeah when i was in snow corps, my ending pose i was in the splits at the front of the stage and every time the curtain closed it would close OVER MY FRONT FOOT.
the director wouldnt let me move back so i just had to time perfectly to pull my foot in without the audience seeing
The snow dumping at once was so funny…no one could straight face after that! Some of the others were terrifying…gravity can be scary! When the woman hit the wall I yelled “expletive deleted” her knee.”
Just found your channel ,loving it ,as an older once was ballet dancer ,gives me such laughs,anything can happen lol
the first one is SO ironic..."I'm giving up on you" as the guy totally abandons her 😂😂😂
Even without the music running it still looked very Dramatic.
Right? The show must go on I guess ✨✨
You can tell that group is very tight knit
I love how they were just😱 in the background 14:41
If I was a ballerina and the male dancer forget to catch me (see 0:54)....I would struggle with my anger.
Me too…it’s that darn trust thing. You really have to feel him, trust him. And if I wasn’t caught, yes…I’d be angry too. But only for a while. It wouldn’t happen again, that’s the relief
@@cbass2755 I have discovered in life if we fail to forgive...it is we ourselves who carry the burden....not the perpetrator.
That’s a very profound statement. Thank u for sharing ☺️☺️
I've always wondered how the dansuer doesn't get punched by the woman he drops!
Top tier captioning as ever! "Now they're mute swans" really tickled me. 😆
Hehehe so glad you enjoyed that 🤣🤣🦢🦢
Thank you Grace for being such a good sport!
Absolutely! Huge shout out to Grace! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😆😆
Heyyyy I”m Grace and I still go back to watch my fall for the laughs LOL
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Oh my goodness, girls! 😂 I love all your reactions! 😂😂 I also really love how you how you explained the reasons behind the fails and not shaming the "mistakes" that happened 🥹 Because in truth, learning comes from mistakes and it's just an another opportunity to move forward. I rarely comment on RUclips videos but I just find you two girls so charming that I couldn't resist!❤ Thanks for your videos! ❤❤
By any chance, would you two review other ballet animations like "Princess Tutu" or "Dance Dance Danseur"? Princess Tutu is a fairytale anime with ballet elements (and gorgeous classical musics) while Dance Dance Danseur is more serious take on a boy who wants to become a Danseur (with some romance). Maybe you girls can review how real these animations portray ballet moves or where these moves come from? And perhaps for Dance Dance Danseur, you girls can explain what's it really like to be a student who's aiming to become a professional ballet dancers! Maybe do episode by episode review like how those RUclips doctors reviewing "Cells at work" episodes. 😂 It's just a suggestion but I'd really appreciate it if you do decide to do it. 🤩 Thanks again, J&E! ❤
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment! We’re happy u liked the video. Love what u said about making mistakes; they always open opportunities for learning and going forward stronger 👏🏻👏🏻
We have received many requests for reviewing ballet anime and we would love to look into it! Stay tuned 😉😉
@@balletreignOh my!!😍 How exciting!! Now my anticipation for your next video is in another level!🤩 Thank you girls for your consideration and I hope to see you guys release another video soon! ❤ Have a wonderful day~
i just had a mishap with me le corsaire grand pas lift 😭😭😭 watching this made me feel so much better ❤️❤️
Aww ❤️ you’re def not alone! It’s a natural part of the process and it’s ok 🫰🏻🫰🏻
there are two famous prima ballerinas' falls on YT : Sylvie Guillem in Sleeping Beauty, and Svetlana Zakharova in Giselle, they both fell on their own but in both cases, the stage looked slippery af......and they get back on their pointe shoes very gracefuly🤪
YES we reviewed the Giselle one in a previous ballet “fails” video, that one was hardddd 😓😓 being proficient in executing perfectly and also recovering from errors is what makes a pro ✨✨
Omg, I’ve had so many music mishaps like that last one. Once it started before we were on stage, a couple of times it’s stopped in the middle of it, sometimes the wrong music has played or it’s been too loud/quiet and we just had to stand there and look like it was all ok lol. I’m terrified if it ever stops and we continue and then it starts in its old place 😭 I guess that’s what we get for being a small studio without the best sound tech tho!
I saw Jewels performed at the Lincoln Center Festival by the New York City Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet performing Rubies, Emeralds and Diamonds respectively. What a fabulous experience. I went twice.
Someone fell during Rubies and crawled off the stage. The Corp formed a group and did the pony step around her while the Principles went to the front and did some spectacular moves. The live music didn't miss a beat!
Later on the subway, I asked others if they had seen it and no one had. A ballet miracle!
That's the thrill of a live performance. When me and my son go we are nudging each other when we see tiny mistakes.
I would love to see a video on bad pirouette turns by male dancers. Some wind up so far in the other direction and they don't hit the fourth position. This is my pet peeve. Once I started noticing it I saw it everywhere!
I really appreciate the scream warning ❤
I am not a ballerina, far from it and I love your commentary. I see a bright future ahead of you. Thanks, ballet is amaizing.
This made our day! Thank you sm for your kind words 🥹🥹. So glad you enjoy our videos!
Jordan acting scared for the thumbnail
God the thing with the Barre also happened to me it was so funny😂😂😂😂 everybody was so scared for me while i just laughed😂😂😂😂
lol we would have been screaming 🤣🤣 glad u survived to tell the tale 😆😆
This one had you in hysterics.
we couldn’t stop laughing 😂😂
I wish it was recorded but during rehearsals for our spring production last year I had an entrance with two other dancers and we had to run in from stage right into upstage center and as I was running upstage I slipped and fell. There was a slick spot on our marley and I didn't know it but I sure felt it lol. Our teacher stopped the music to ask me if I was alright but all I could do was laugh.
THIS STARTED 1 HOUR EARLY AND I MISSED THE START. I WILL START AGAIN
LOL it’s daylight savings here in TX 😂😂 we’re still here and glad to have you watch with us this weekend 😆😆
@@balletreignwait y’all r in tx??? me tooooo
RUclips would not let me reply so I hope you see this:
you’re 100% right and I meant no disrespect or was being mean. You nailed it: I started doing cartwheels, climbing the furniture, the walls, the trees… I was like a little monkey 🙈 always doing weird stuff with my body to freak out my parents and frankly because I wanted to see if I could. Thankfully they put me in ballet academy in Moscow and I became a professional ballerina 🩰
It never occurred to me that I was the crazy one until I randomly showed my new husband that I could cartwheel to both sides and I asked him to show me HIS cartwheel. He’s a football player and looked at me like I was nuts. For me record, I have zero hand eye coordination. Melo wlw
Kudos on the video! It went above and beyond what was anticipated in both content and delivery.
Funnily enough, Where's Waldo was my first exposure to the Nutcracker :) I had a themed book that I loved a lot!
Score : 14. I either laugh or cringe in pain :P
About the last one. We once had a defaut cd and the music was accelerating, decerelating, skipping counts. We dance the entire 3 minutes choreography on sync with a interesting music piece. Our dance director made us redance it right away on the proper music (backup cd) fing proud of that moment with our dance group. So in SYNC!
The fact that these girls could have half an hour of Contant just from my falls, this past year is very humbling for me
Wonderful seeing you two again!
Likewise! Thank u for watching 😆
@balletreign always a great pleasure!
We tried a new kind of snow for our nutcracker this year and we uh. are NEVER using that snow again oh my goodness. it got in the dancer's eyes and got stuck there, making it hard for them to see- you get some of that all the time but this snow was so small and it was this weird plasticy stuff that was hard to get out of things- NOPE!!!! i was so worried one of the girls would inhale some and start choking, or get a scratch on her eye from it
End pose story: I talked! Like I messed up something and at the end I was just like “SH*T I messed up!” 😭😭 not ballet tho but we’re still supposed to like, not talk😂😂
I love you two! I try to watch your videos as soon as they come out.
Ladies again you have been inspirational. My 3rd book is currently in the writing process and the girls involved are beginning to learn Pas De Deux so I might put a couple of these fails in just for fun
Probably the scariest lift I've ever seen was from the tv show Find me in Paris. One of the characters actually was so injured in the story he could never dance again, ended up following his choreographer dreams.
Aww that’s tragic 😓😓 but glad he found another route in choreography! ✨✨
Sorry girls - This is not a mistake by the boy (5.41) but 3 mistakes by the girl! 1. her hand belongs on the boy's upper arm! 2. the take-off leg remains vertically downwards. 3. she must bend sideways so that his hand can lift under her ribcage. … Prof. Tappendorff
I can't believe they don't have spotters for lifts in rehearsals...
We do have spotters in the beginning of the process, but once the dancers get the hang of it we lose the spotters and try not to have any accidents (although, of course, they always do) 😉😉
I have a performance and I have to leave my house at this time so I can't watch live 😢
No worries!! We’ll catch you sometime afterwards. We’re wishing you nothing but the best for your show and cheering u on!! You got this, go out there and kill it 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@@balletreign Thank you! It went well
The Cartwheel Duo was gold!!! The other day I realized not everyone can do a Cartwheel. Like what???!!! I can do them to both sides. That one dude threw the other one over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes. The commitment! Bravo 👏🏻 😂
some of us (notably me) have rly bad spatial awareness and movement coordination and bad back strength
i feel like the people i know who can do cartwheels could do them since childhood so they "always" had the back strength, or they learned it early enough to develop it without actively doing back strengthening exercises
thats what i imagine anyways, because i know i would absolutely have to do back strengthening exercises before learning to do them
That one had us 🤣🤣🤣🤣 their persistence was remarkable 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@melowlw8638 we all have our unique strengths and weaknesses! We just need to stay focused on ourselves and try not to compare ourselves to others ❤️
naw tho bc this came at the perfect time since i fell in class earlier in the week doing pique turns en pointe-
Oh no! hope you are ok! 😅😅 Thanks for watching todayyy 😆😆
@@balletreign dw im fine luckily
I had a funny fail. I’m not much good at turns and we were doing turns across the room. (FtM dancer here) I was doing a double, fell out of it and landed in a press up position. My teacher screamed and I couldn’t stop laughing for about 5 minutes
We would’ve been screaming too! Good recovery tho, impressed by the end pose u chose lol 😂😂
Thanks for the compliment. I have no idea how I did it! I was off balance and was gonna land flat on my face and wreck my glasses. I wasn’t about to pay for a new pair so I somehow managed to land in a press up! It was very funny
This looks good. Is it on Saturday teatime again ? Do you have a regular upload time ? Or is it just off the cuff ? You guys are terrific 💙
Yes! Our regular upload time is 12pm CST every Saturday. So glad you enjoy our videos, see you tomorrow! ✨✨
So me getting ran over by other kids during a maypole dance when I was ~5 and it actually got put on America's Funniest Home Videos from one of the other parents I know to the video is out there somewhere but I haven't been able to find it again.
NO WAY 🫣🫣 getting run over in a maypole dance feels like getting run over in a merry go round 😅😅
It was a mixed age group and the girls behind me were a little older and a lot bigger than I. It was very tiny fiat against monster trucks at Nascar it was bad lol
The live started while i was i ballet class loll
hope to see others aside from Grace saying "i'm fine" in the comments!
I've never been a part of the ballet world apart from some lessons I remember vaguely from when I was like, 5, but I am so glad to be learning about this art form from you! Ballet is so gorgeous and looks so elegant, but seeing stuff like this reminds me of all my marching band fails. You commit to the bit and try not to get hurt! You've definitely earned a subscriber, I can't wait to learn more about ballet!
I am a big fan of your channel
Great to see some humor mixed in to the art form
Loved your reacts and experiences🙂❣️
I’m doing good. I’m sore from yesterday’s double Recital and then I was super duper sick for 2 days before that but like we are gonna make today work. Thank you for asking!
ITS ALWAYS ARABESQUE
ok so I’m my abt exam rehersal not too long ago we were doing our pointe across the floor combos and were on the left side I was in the last group and the end had an arabesque hold and I held it for so long and just as I thought to myself “wow u r really balancing well” I saw the floor right infront of my face AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW I FELL I JUST INSTINCTIVELY CAUGHT MYSELF XD (I fell bc my supporting leg’s foot winged and so I was literally on the corner of the box)
I’m not a professional but I once landed a pirouette on my butt right in front of my teacher. Then there was the time we were working on cabrioles. I finally managed to get one to the back but then I forgot to separate my legs and crashed to the floor. My teacher said I was there and then I was gone. I didn’t know what had happened. I just knew I was suddenly on the floor. I didn’t even know I had succeeded in the cabriole until my teach told me I had gotten my legs together but hadn’t separated them to land it.
19:00 Girls - you have zero knowledge! Can’t you recognize, that the girl did not jump at all, kept her upper body straight, so he could not grab under the rip cage and on top: she let the working leg fly over 90 degrees and made the lift almost impossible… the man was a hero!
Just found this channel, you are great!!
Welcome!! So happy to have u here! 🥳🥳
All of these videos look so painful! I hope they're ok!
We hope so too ❤️❤️
7.09: this is happened, when a girl falls to her standing leg in arabesque (common mistake). Don’t blame the poor partner, who has to lift this already falling girl!!!
Ohhh my goodness, so many dance fails over the years. One of the ones I remember most clearly is falling on my ass during tap class. I was Very Pregnant at the time and everyone in class was freaking out. And obviously the baby was fine, they're very well protected in there. (He's 18 now so I think we're good.) Pointe shoes are hecking slippery but so are tap shoes! Honestly, dancing was taking my life in my hands at every turn. (Pun: intentional lol.)
Another one I remember was during a performance. I had to get to the other side of the stage for my next entrance and rather than my dance teacher just... choreographing that in somewhere? Nah. I had to run allllllll the way around. Except our theater had no crossover behind the curtain so I had to run offstage left, down the stairs, through the big band/staging room, past the dressing rooms, up the stairs, and over to stage right. Unfortunately, I fell - kind of hard - while running. But I didn't have time to check on myself even though I could definitely feel it in my ankle. Got up (and ignored the people who were like "are you okay?"" because I had To GOOOOO), kept running, and made it back on stage with not a soul knowing that I'd hurt myself until much later. I think I was like 15? 16? I'm 43 now and the thought of getting up and running after falling makes me lowkey wanna die LOL. But I guess with enough adrenaline, anything is possible.
And (to wrap this LONG comment up), thank you for the check-in! I'm okay, though my vacation is ending and I have to return to work tomorrow. :(
Are y’all still doing Ballet Reign Academy? I’ve tried reaching out several ways and haven’t heard back in weeks, I was really excited to take a class when I saw y’all were so close to me!
Hi! We will forward your message to front desk and have them reach out to you. Excited to hear from you!😊♥️
FLASHING LIGHT EFFECT at 18:44-18:49.
Sorry, but this is migraine-inducing and may cause seizures.
Please give adequate warning within the video and the description and possibly a pinned comment.
... just like you did with the scream warning a minute later. That looked very painful.
I'm really sorry! I've never said anything critical before but there has never been any need for that.
The video is fantastic! Did you know that for some of these bloopers, I couldn't even tell that there was a problem?
14:05 literally crying with laughter!
What is the name of the music at the outro, please?
Thank you for the video! 🙏🩰🌂🦢🦆🍀🎶🌛
Thanks, we’ll pass that note on to the BR team. Glad you enjoyed the video and thought it was funny! The music for the outro is a polonaise from the sleeping beauty 🌸
@@balletreign thank you so much!! 🙏💕🦢
Idk how yall always manage to use music from the exact pieces I'm learning at the time that the video comes out, I was watching this after rehearsal when I heard the maid of honor music from Sleeping Beauty which is the piece I literally just worked on...
LOL the ballet nerd telepathy was strong. Sleeping Beauty is a great one to learn! You’re very privileged 🌸✨
$$$ donations for the subtitler to buy/make cookies!!! $$$ $$$ $$$ We all love u, thank you for making Ballet Reign videos even better
Awww thank youuu we’ll pass this one on to subtitler, they’ll def feel the love! (and get some cookies) ❤️🍪
14:35 i once had to do this with my acrobatic partner, it did not help i was almost a foot taller than her at the time (lucky though whenever we had to do partner work because i was taller i was always the base and we danced together since we were 2 and 3 so the trust you need for those tricks was already there) this was one of the few times she had to support me and luckily it was on a momentum based trick otherwise i don’t think she’d be able to do it 😅 we nailed it though but never did it again 😭
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Where's Eden 😛
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This is why Kathryn Morgan tells ballet students watching her YT vids. Do not practice your fouettes, pirouettes & other difficult stuff at home. The studio is a controlled environment. Your home with its concrete or hard wood floor & narrower spaces is not.
14:04 which ballet is this?
I LOVE a good fails video but I only enjoy watching the professionals failing. It gives me no pleasure to watch students or pre professional dancers struggling UNLESS they are like that badass dancer from Ohio who submitted her fail (btw, so much respect as I’d totally do that myself - but first make fun of thyself!). I recently watched a professional RUclips video of the Flames of Paris PDD and I wasn’t ready for it but this beautiful ballerina fell hard on me variation and as a professional, she got up and continued like the pro she is. Please, next time, make a compilation of professional ballerinas and danseurs. 25:12
Hi ladies, I love your content but I won't watch this one. I just can't watch fails in ballet dancing. It would break my heart. Alone the idea of people dedicating their life to the beauty of dancing and beeing so infortunate after so many hours, weeks, months and years of work and self discipline... I feel so sorry for them.
But thank you anyway and keep on the good work. See you next week !
most are more funny than painful!
I can’t watch. This hurts more than my heart.
A girl has at least to do basic things - your comments are unfair!
Ok. Now…just STOP REPLAYING HER CRASHING DOWN.
you kinda have to if you want to understand how it happened