OMG I cannot even EXPLAIN how frustrating it is when people underestimate how smart and quick your mind has to be in order to pick up the combinations, stay in line, stay with the music, have the right arms, and more ALL on top of trying to look good!! This whole video was super relatable thank you!😊❤
You haven't been looked down on till you you enroll your son in ballet. My guy friends think I'm crazy but now he's 10 a grabbing acceptances to great schools around the Country!
Duane Bradley great for him. other people shouldn't matter to him when he's going out and doing things that make him happy and making accomplishments and they are sitting at home watching their son play t-ball
I happened upon this video randomly but I am an actor and so many of these are true for us too! People ask me if I'm famous all the time. Not even close, lol! I also have people talk down to me constantly and ask me when I'll get a "real" job. So frustrating. I think many people in arts professions experience this lack of respect for what we do. it's like the people who talk down to us don't realize that the people providing them with the movies and plays and concerts and dance performances they enjoy are actually humans too. Thanks for sharing your experience!
if you're not a ballet dancer, i recommend seeing First Position. That was the movie that really opened my eyes to how difficult ballet is. That was before i started ballet, of course. Now i get to feel all the lovely pain i heard all of those dancers talking about in First Position.
That last point is so important! I started in ballet when I was 4 and I still dance today but I am more committed to pursuing a professional career in circus and my apparatus is trampoline. I come from a family of doctors and scientists and many people act like I'm throwing away the genius brain that I inherited by dedicating myself to acrobatics. What they don't understand though is that I remember every bit of choreography I've ever been taught. They don't understand that my brain and my body are as in-sync as humanly possible. They don't get that when I'm in the air on the trampoline and I realize that my flip or twist is just a tiny bit over-rotated, I have less than a second to consider 5 different landing options (back drop, pencil drop, hands and knees drop, front drop or feet), choose the safest one, and get in position to land that way (which can vary between just getting my body into the right position, twisting completely in another direction, untucking early to stop my rotation or tucking to gain more rotation) and I do it every time. I also work drills in which my instructor may call out a trick either moments before I hit the bed of the trampoline (for twisting-related tricks) or while I am in the apex of a jump (for flip and drop-related tricks) and I have to act the exact moment that the words leave their mouth. Performing in dance and in acrobatics is the epitome of quick thinking! The sheer amount of choreography memorized takes serious brain power!
I love how aware you were of what you were saying as you spoke, so that you did keep any generalizations in check, as well as constantly remained grateful and understanding. I absolutely love that you were reflective and did keep a positive mindset. Great video, amazing personality!
joyful4jello Thank you so much. That means a lot to me! I find that too many people these days throw away the meaning behind words and don't understand the power of truth and clarity in speech. I want to bring that back!
This was so interesting!! I'm a classical musician, and we deal with our own barrage of pre-conceptions and people making comments (asking things like if we have a 'real job', it must be nice to just be 'playing' all of the time, do we have enough money to eat etc...) Thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad it resonated with you! I'm sure most artists feel the exact same way. People often take for granted how much the arts enrich their day-to-day lives, so they naturally under-appreciate the people who create the things like music, images, designs, and videos that they regularly enjoy.
I can relate so much! Specially on the food topic, I'm a type of person that stays skinny even if I eat a ton of food and Macdonalds I will stay the same weight and one day a family member told me " Wow youre super skinny, you should eat! I don't know what they tell you in your ballet planet but you should eat !" I was like woah man I do eat ! BALLET DANCERS DO EAT we do not prevent ourselves to eat just to stay skinny because it is what it takes to be a dancer, no ( and tbh that is so much stereotypical to say all ballet dancers should be skinny like wth)
Just randomly came across your channel, as a young Opera singer, I can relate to a ton of these, except most people assume we eat anything and everything 😂😂😂
I am really impressed by your honest speech. everyone that talks you down should wear a pair of pointe shoes and let them only try to stand for a tiny moment on point....That might cure them. I always wished I was a Dancer, but my life just took another direction. so at the age of 51 - though fit and pretty pliable - I am taking beginners classes, that teaches respect for your profession.....Go on like this👍👍👍👍
my first and last initials are e.d. in 6th grade art class, we had to incorporate something that we love with our initials. so naturally, I drew the letters e and d inside of a pointe shoe. I showed it to my art teacher and she made me change it because she said e.d. might interpret to stand for eating disorder because it was in a ballet shoe. all in all, she made me start over and put my full intials which are e.p.d.
thank you for making this!!! I really want to share this with my extended family so they will stop driving me nuts over the holidays. If I had a dollar for every time someone has made a comment on my eating or diet I could probably pay for my tuition. I'm so done with people trying to convince me to go to college and get a "real job." I am still just a student but I spend more hours in the studio than some of the people who make those comments to me!
The last point was great and just the tip of the iceberg... much more detail could be touched upon for the individual who believes dancers aren't bright or believes an intelligent person shouldn't "waste" it on dancing. Would love to see them participate in a ballet class, professional audition or rehearsal or creative process... then let's have a chat.
I came across this video by accident when I was looking for a video that gives the reasons why others like the ballet. But nevertheless I found this video very interesting that’s presented by a young lady who is quite delightful and beautiful like Margot Fonteyn. I am at the early stages of being an appreciator of the ballet and I have the preference for Swan Lake and the Nutcracker which is so lovely to me that I can watch it over and over again by various companies, although I have my favourites. The music, the sets, and the dancing and the costumes are so beautiful. I do believe that a good dancer needs to be a light hearted person. I find the ballet very lifting. Also I find that the ballet is terribly supportive and encouraging mostly happening unwittingly to the astute observing audience, who are free of those impediments which might impede their capacity to appreciate all that this great art has to offer. The ballet should be for everyone but alas many will be denied its pleasure, as I once was, for the beauty they are yet to see is being denied them as they have to view life through a distorted lens. Mores the pity. It is for the refined. Those who appreciate it are the cream of the crop. The cream of society.
Glad you brought up the eating topic. As a male ballet dancer, it is so frustrating to hear ignorant comments about what I eat or how much I eat or even things such as I can eat more because I'll just burn it off. I wonder, do pro athletes hear such comments? I would think not because their body and what they do in life must be so fine tuned... dancers are the same. We must be in our optimal conditions to do what we do... for the same amount of time as a pro athlete if not longer actually.
I agree with every single one of these points. You are such an amazing dancer and you inspire me so much. I hope that one day I will be as good as you. Love from South Africa xxx
Although I'm not a dancer and never danced at all in my life (though I think Ballet is wonderful😊), I could relate so much, regarding my own job. I work in the publishing industry and people are all the time surprised that it actually is a pretty hard job sometimes! Of course, it's not rocket science nor brain surgery, but you do have to know your stuff too and it can be super stressful because there are deadlines all the time. I feel like people tend to consider jobs having to do with subjects that are not as "important" as food and health and daily objects everyone uses on a super regular basis more easy than others. I try not to, but I sometimes get offended if people are truly surprised that I work long hours every day and say "but why, it's just books?! Can't be that hard, can it??" Er, yes it can. I imagine, it's kind of similar with dancing (or other art forms), right? ☺
These are so accurate and I so appreciate somebody actually making a video about it. This might just be me, but it really annoys me when people imitate ballet dancers to be funny. It's so frustrating because they make it seem like we just flounce around in tutus all day. I don't know, maybe it's just me.
I think a lot could be said for different professions and non as well. (working moms vs. stay-at-home comes to mind.) I, for one, am fascinated with dancers! Not one myself, but if I knew you, I'd be in awe and asking you all sorts of questions. Anyway, I'd love to see a post about dancers aches and pains, etc. Or what it feels like to be on pointe. (how the feet feel too) I've heard dancers are always in pain, and I wonder if that is just while they're dancing or even when not. Does the pain carry over into later life as well? I hope this makes sense, as I've always wondered about that. And how you mentally work through that pain. (I work out, but when I'm in pain, I listen to my body, and take time off. -- NOT saying you should be doing that, rather, when I'M in pain, working out is the last thing on my mind, even though I want to.) Hope that makes sense! Thanks!
ahhhh black swan..i love that movie because of how well it represents what I interpret as schizophrenia but i'm always wishing people didn't think ballet companies are all like that lol
Have you seen the new show Flesh and Bone? Makes ballet companies look really nasty. Almost every character is a total asshole. I was hoping it would be more balanced than Black Swan and show some positive attitudes and behaviour. www.bustle.com/articles/122045-how-accurate-is-flesh-and-bone-to-the-ballet-world-its-realism-may-surprise-you
+Cessily Well, it was about a struggling company, and going through serious transitions. It would make sense that people were stressed. I don't think that the goal was to represent for all ballet companies, and ballerinas, but to tell of a specific tragedy.
Yes, of course one story doesn't represent everything or everyone it encapsulates, but I'm saying that it adds to a negative view of the ballet world that is already out there (as evidence by the article I linked to - a lot of people already think, and I quote: "there's often such a dark world behind the beautiful costumes and the images of women smiling..."). And the characters were not portrayed as just stressed. They were often unprofessional and largely had awful personality traits.
+Cessily I summed up their being unprofessional, and having unsavory personalities, as products of stress. Of course there were a few petty characters, that didn't seem to have anything to be stressed about. But they weren't the focus. It was the girl escaping a twisted home environment, with little more than the clothes on her back, the woman with a drug problem, who's desperately trying to hold onto her ending career, the girl with a deadly disease, and the people struggling to keep the company afloat, and their pride intact. Being involved in ballet is only portrayed as PART of their issues; not the root of all evil. It's a drama/tragedy. Not a reality show, or comedy. Of course the main focuses are gonna be the hot messes, who are more likely to meet tragic ends. But if it makes you feel any better, you can imagine everyone besides them, being tight-knit, normal friends. But that wasn't the artistic direction production wanted to go. I know it must suck for ballerinas who want a different kind of representation, but it is what it is. Anyone can complain about film portraying their professions a certain way. Like construction workers portrayed as perverts, or lawyers portrayed as cold-hearted bullies, who don't actually care about the truth. And they're portrayed that way in the media, way more than ballerinas being depressed, with eating disorders are. There's like only Black Swan, and Flesh and Bone (and this short-lived reality show called "On Pointe"). Want to change the perception?... Make your own movie/show. The perception's already changing with ballerina vloggers, like this, and Teen Vogue doing multiple series' on ballet, that makes it look fun.
A happy medium between "fun" and f**ked-up would be nice. Drama is fine, but realistically grounded in a more balanced or pragmatic view of the ballet world.
Hi! I was wondering if you could do a video about going to college and still being able to get a professional dance company job? My parents are very concerned about this and I'm not sure what to do about it.
I enjoy your vids. Perhaps some of the "ignorance" about ballet and ballet dancers is because many people have never attended a performance and don't know anyone who is a professional dancer. They believe what's in films or TV, or rumors, etc. Like dancers starve themselves and exist on cocaine, coffee and cigarettes. lol I know that this isn't true, but many still believe it is. Or that all male dancers are gay. Do you know what I mean? The assumption that you're famous is sweet and funny! HAAHA, I thought "troupe" was for circus performers! I love what you said about people who don't understand what you do, and they don't want to understand. Most professional dancers are elite athletes, imho. It takes immense mental and physical strength, it's truly amazing. Well, this comment is already WAY too long, so thanks, Happy Thanksgiving, and kisses to Alice. :D
Bonnie Mei there's some girls at my school who can't stop talking about how excited they are for their first pair toe shoes. i don't know where they got it from, but it hurts my ears everytime ^^
When I first heard her say "toe shoes" I immediately pictured those shoes that have separate sections for each of your toes that many people wore last year (2016) I think. Pointe shoes are really pretty, and I think that I would die if I had to wear them.
I really hate when I say I dance and that I’m a ballerina people think that I was on dance moms and it makes me so mad! 😒 But, lately, I don't care anymore so just be nice and be caring to ballerinas and other people
I realized how many of these assumptions I held about ballerinas once I actually started learning ballet. Now I have nothing but awe and respect for ballet.
A little note on possibility: the sweet spot between hardcore and unattainable. I've always had the view of ballet as being hardcore, and it has been a surprise to me to learn that not everyone holds this view. Some of the things you went over in this video (thinking that ballet is not intelligent or difficult, or that it's infantile etc) is just insane to me. People believing that Natalie Portman could dance en pointe (of course it was her body double doing that) after just 1.5 years as an adult learner, also insane. I've actually had to learn that ballet is not as impossible as I thought it was. I thought that adults with no prior experience couldn't even take up ballet lessons (which I found quite sad, because I find the art/craft/discipline of ballet to be so admirable and beautiful) and have only recently discovered that that just isn't true: there are adult beginners, some of whom even make it onto pointe after a number of years. Amazing. The world just opened up for me in a way (at a stage of my life when many things seem to be closing down).
Thank you for clarifying your focus in eating! Your body is dependent on the fuel you provide it for best performance ... but there are times when you can splurge a big as well.
OMG YOU WERE A SWIMMER!!!! I'm a swimmer too and I've always wanted to learn ballet!!!! Could you please make a video about your experience as a swimmer? ILY SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
thanks for this lovely video and it really speaks to me slot even though I have been starting late in my early 20s and I'm always talked down being told these exact words I find it offensive or hurtful. I still want to be considered a pre pro ballet dancer regards of anything as well age. but really this was really helpful
Can you do a video Of how far you can point your toes ,what your shoes look like and what kind of padding you use and this video is so awesome because I have no idea what it is like to be a dancer, I want to be one but i really really want to
I used to call them toe shoes, but now I call them pointe shoes (because it's more professional and the accurate name). Unfortunately, my mom still calls them toe shoes.
I took ballet for 3 years, from age 6-9. Not a long time. I miss it so much. Hopefully next year or the following year I'll be able to take classes again 💕
I’ve been dancing for 7 years (since I was 3) I’ve done gymnastics, ballet, modern, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, and tap. I love it and want a career out of it but just know, you may not be taken seriously for a while. It’s terrible how ballet dancers aren’t taken seriously even though ballet is very hard sometimes. But it is amazing and you really should do it again!
Oh my goodness! I have the issue where I go out to eat or I eat with people and they assume that I don't eat sweets. It's annoying, I'm often like ahhhh I was gonna eat that, but ok.
ballet is probably the most masculine of things. for example- the balance between very masculine and very feminine choreography in a pas de deux is beautiful.
Any tips for improving reaching a full split in grand jetes? As well as achieving a high develope. Also, do you have any excersizes for improving core strength and back flexibility? love your videos, thanks
Sasha M I try to stretch everyday and I have my splits on the ground, I have the flexibility just not the strength to hold it in the air! Thanks for the tip though
Grace M. I love Kathryn Morgan's channel!!! I've been watching for almost 2 years now, still need to work on my strength, thanks for the suggestion though :)
Have you ever wanted to give ballet up or had struggles with it? I was in a professional training program for 4 years and I have recently moved on from it because of mental illness and being unhealthy for so long... All I ever wanted was to be a ballerina but now I don't want it at all and I've had that thought in the back of my head for a long time now aswell:... Is that okay that I'm starting a new journey when ballet has been my life for such a long time!!??? Help :) xx
Amy Talbot I'm in the same boat! I just recently walked away from pursuing a career in ballet due to my health and battle with mental illness. Walking away from ballet is what I needed to do in order to get to a healthy place, although I do miss it so much and am still sad that I lost it.
Abby Stansell I can relate on so many levels, I've been grieving for a while, I treated ballet like a marriage and we just got a divorce after years of an abusive yet passionate, loving relationship haha it will hurt for a while but we will be alright in the end I'm sure girl!
I want to start ballet but I'm kinda embarrassed about telling my parents or anyone they will say it's for girly girls but I can trust my best friend but my mum said it might be too late but after that I haven't said anything I'm a bit embarrassed but I do love ballet
Amelia Shields I’m pansexual and am a ballet dancer. I’m anything but feminine although pretending is nice, and the actual dance part too. I hope your family understands
It's never too late to start dance classes. I know lots of people start ballet really early and you might have younger girls thrown into the classes, but it's never too late for you to start dancing. :) Also, ballet is a very athletic and taxing thing to do, so it's not really entirely girly. I hope everything works out between you and your parents.
One thing is ballet can be expensive sometimes! Also DO NOT use cups on your feet for pointe shoes! Just saying. If you want to start it, just slowly and express your interest by maybe dancing around the house or try to have her catch you watching ballet videos a lot. Just slowly express your interest by your actions and not by your words. When you think she is starting to notice your interest just wait for the right time and ask. This may take 1 or 2 months. You aren’t going to start of en pointe. You have years to go before that. You have to start off with your basic positions and gaining strength in your ankles. It will take time an sometimes you might not want to do it. But if you quit just because you are to bored or tired of it for one day, you’re going to regret it trust me. Just keep going! Hope this helped! Also gear is very expensive too! Good luck!
the last one. So I was the valedictorian in my graduating class and everyone told me like see you in college have fun at Harvard and becoming like a world famous scientist, and I just say no that's not what i want to do. I'm going to dance and they're all like oh interesting, like wouldn't you rather go to college and be a scientist or like my dad said he liked my idea of scientist or you should have a back up plan and I just wish people understood that we're not stupid competitive starving little girls but we're hard working people.
Thank you! I totally agree with you. I even feel like there are times when I accidentally speak of being girly in a negative way because I want to distance myself from the image of weakness that is associated with being a girl. That makes me even more sad because I want women to feel empowered no matter what their personality is! I'm very sorry if I came across that way in the video.
I believe that ballet is good for the body. ALTHOUGH I would never do it myself. I see it as a more of a feminine art, because all my life I have associated it with women. I also think that the whole dancing on stage to tell a story is weird. I see that the training and practice is very rewarding when accomplished. But it would be hard to convince me to do ballet and perform on stage.
David bravo that’s absolutely fine, no one is making you do ballet, however it is not a feminine art, and it’s not weird to tell a story on stage, it’s really fun a lot of the time
I was on the train sitting with two girls going to ballet by the looks of it, and it was extremely annoying because they were crazy up themselves whilst talking to one another, and I was getting a lot of dirty looks. I love ballet even though I don't do it but that just really annoyed me.
this video would have been way more interesting if you would have shortened it and talked about every thing for 2 minutes, bce it just gets repetitive and boring. i do understand that you don't have so much time to put all of yourself in these videos, since you're a ballet dancer, and fully understand it since im a dancer myself( though I'm not a professional, but still I've worked with and dance with few ballerinas). But it seriously would help your content and bring you more subscribers if you made your videos short, quick and clear. I truly respect what you're doing and i could only wish to achieve something in the future with ballet. You're seriously amazing.
Aiste Norkute Thank you, I really do appreciate he feedback! I agree with you. I honestly think my discipline has been slipping a bit with my content since I've had less time to focus on it recently. My goal going forward is to hopefully put more time into prepping my content so that it will be more concise while also focusing on editing a bit more on the post-production side. Again, thanks for your feedback and support!
Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the evil in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love. Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans . The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom. If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us into His image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. We cannot purify ourselves, but Christ lived that perfect sinless, pure life and then allotted it to our "account". That's where our righteousness comes from. Not from any good, works that you or I could do. It is not based on the amount of good works we do. God starts the changes, He carries it on, and He completes it in those who let Him. It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him, again, through His power and instruction). He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if YOU had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place. He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, forgiveness, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it. He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way. NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER If you have any questions let me know xx
OK, 21 min of talking abt, we're nice, don't talk about food, fame, bias, taking class, companies not troupes, pointe shoes not toe shoes, we are NOT childish, being talked down to, and finally, I am intelligent! Yeah, I'd call that a rant and YES I'm rolling my eyes!!!
Unfortunately, the truth is, you are your own worst critic. When you go out in public, the only person thinking about you and ballerina issues, is you. Humans are selfish. Just be you, you seem awesome!!!!
Stop right now ! Stop making ballet "easier to understand for dummies", coz no need to make things easier than they are, ever. Ballet must be a Mystery, a personal discovery as a part of Your life. If it's not happend in your entire life ---- pass aside, it's not yours... For me, I'm not a bit of any kind of dancer, - for me Ballet is a Mystery which origins I still can't explain entirely. Almost nude women, explicit moves, few clothes ? Yes, but not core thing, something at the edge and fainting away when I get to the core, which is a Dance itself, a Talk going through body, originally programmed to very tight moves... I do not know. Definitely it's not a sexual thing. It's about me, a human of feelings, but not specially of sex or something like that (which is downgrade of feelings). Rather it's about All, above all... And it's breathtaking. A Mystery behind glass. Let it be there, don't touch it, if you do it'll break apart and melt away in your hands... (any kind of backstage in ballet is evil)
EXCUSE ME?! I AM SO TIRED OF THINGS LIKE THIS. OK, SO YOU ARE TIRED OF PEOPLE MAKING FUN OF BALLET. THERE ARE MUCH WORSE THINGS IN THE WORLD. I HAVE ADHD, ANXIETY, OCD, DYSGRAPHIA, AND TOURETTE SYNDROME, AND HERE YOU ARE BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT HOW AWFUL YOUR LIFE IS BECAUSE YOUR TIRED OF ALL THIS INACCURATE TALK ABOUT BALLET?! THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WITH ADHD, BEING TOLD TO PAY ATTENTION, AND CALM DOWN! THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WITH ANXIETY, WHO ARE BEING TOLD TO STOP WORRYING, WITH ALL OF THESE FEELINGS, AND PROBLEMS WITH THE WORLD, JUST FALLING ONTO YOUR BACK AS IF YOUR DESTINED TO BE SOME HERO, BUT YOU KEEP FALLING DOWN AND DOWN, UNTIL YOU FEEL LIKE EVERYONE WILL HATE YOU. AND YOU CANT CONTROL IT. YOU HAVNT FELT LIKE THIS BEFORE. YOU HAVNT BEEN ABLE TO ACTUALLY FEEL DESPAIR. TO FEEL LIKE EVERYONE HATES YOU. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO EVEN HAVE POSTED THIS VIDEO. YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON.
Of course there are worse things in the world, and those issues you brought up are certainly terrible! I am sorry you felt that this video belittled those problems, but it is quite clear that there were absolutely no comparisons made between ballet being misunderstood and living with a disorder. This is primarily because that is totally irrelevant from the subject matter of this video, but also because there is so comparison. I never suggested that people misunderstanding ballet is higher up than anything in a hierarchy of problems that exist in the world. I believe I made it quite clear that this was just a light hearted discussion and that I do not pity myself in any way just because I occasionally receive belittling comments about my profession. I also want to remind you that you do not know me, therefore, you cannot make assumptions about what hardships I have experienced. It is clear that this tone of video touched a nerve for you, and I am sorry for that. Just know that this was not at all the intention and to believe so is to misconstrue the truth.
OMG I cannot even EXPLAIN how frustrating it is when people underestimate how smart and quick your mind has to be in order to pick up the combinations, stay in line, stay with the music, have the right arms, and more ALL on top of trying to look good!! This whole video was super relatable thank you!😊❤
strange that people who choose a career in classical dance get so much criticism. In Japan classic arts are treated with respect.
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I do agree that it should be treated in respect
You haven't been looked down on till you you enroll your son in ballet. My guy friends think I'm crazy but now he's 10 a grabbing acceptances to great schools around the Country!
Duane Bradley great for him. other people shouldn't matter to him when he's going out and doing things that make him happy and making accomplishments and they are sitting at home watching their son play t-ball
My 10 years old son also dance ballet (among other things). Small steps, i say.
Your son is taking a great roll in life. Ever seen the guys in the nutcracker? That could be your son!! 😊😊
Ugh people need to parent their OWN children, what you do with your son that makes him happy should be no one else’s business!
I happened upon this video randomly but I am an actor and so many of these are true for us too! People ask me if I'm famous all the time. Not even close, lol! I also have people talk down to me constantly and ask me when I'll get a "real" job. So frustrating. I think many people in arts professions experience this lack of respect for what we do. it's like the people who talk down to us don't realize that the people providing them with the movies and plays and concerts and dance performances they enjoy are actually humans too. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Well said, I completely agree! Thank you for the comment! :)
if you're not a ballet dancer, i recommend seeing First Position. That was the movie that really opened my eyes to how difficult ballet is. That was before i started ballet, of course. Now i get to feel all the lovely pain i heard all of those dancers talking about in First Position.
oh my goodness "ballet muggles" that was brilliant! also very well said! so necessary :)
Hahaha I'm glad you appreciated that ;) Thank you!
That last point is so important! I started in ballet when I was 4 and I still dance today but I am more committed to pursuing a professional career in circus and my apparatus is trampoline. I come from a family of doctors and scientists and many people act like I'm throwing away the genius brain that I inherited by dedicating myself to acrobatics. What they don't understand though is that I remember every bit of choreography I've ever been taught. They don't understand that my brain and my body are as in-sync as humanly possible. They don't get that when I'm in the air on the trampoline and I realize that my flip or twist is just a tiny bit over-rotated, I have less than a second to consider 5 different landing options (back drop, pencil drop, hands and knees drop, front drop or feet), choose the safest one, and get in position to land that way (which can vary between just getting my body into the right position, twisting completely in another direction, untucking early to stop my rotation or tucking to gain more rotation) and I do it every time. I also work drills in which my instructor may call out a trick either moments before I hit the bed of the trampoline (for twisting-related tricks) or while I am in the apex of a jump (for flip and drop-related tricks) and I have to act the exact moment that the words leave their mouth. Performing in dance and in acrobatics is the epitome of quick thinking! The sheer amount of choreography memorized takes serious brain power!
B I G W O W !
I love how aware you were of what you were saying as you spoke, so that you did keep any generalizations in check, as well as constantly remained grateful and understanding. I absolutely love that you were reflective and did keep a positive mindset. Great video, amazing personality!
joyful4jello Thank you so much. That means a lot to me! I find that too many people these days throw away the meaning behind words and don't understand the power of truth and clarity in speech. I want to bring that back!
This was so interesting!! I'm a classical musician, and we deal with our own barrage of pre-conceptions and people making comments (asking things like if we have a 'real job', it must be nice to just be 'playing' all of the time, do we have enough money to eat etc...) Thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad it resonated with you! I'm sure most artists feel the exact same way. People often take for granted how much the arts enrich their day-to-day lives, so they naturally under-appreciate the people who create the things like music, images, designs, and videos that they regularly enjoy.
I've noticed that some people even pre professional students call pointe shoes "toe shoes" I think it's just sort of a slang thing in different areas
I can relate so much! Specially on the food topic, I'm a type of person that stays skinny even if I eat a ton of food and Macdonalds I will stay the same weight and one day a family member told me " Wow youre super skinny, you should eat! I don't know what they tell you in your ballet planet but you should eat !" I was like woah man I do eat ! BALLET DANCERS DO EAT we do not prevent ourselves to eat just to stay skinny because it is what it takes to be a dancer, no ( and tbh that is so much stereotypical to say all ballet dancers should be skinny like wth)
Just randomly came across your channel, as a young Opera singer, I can relate to a ton of these, except most people assume we eat anything and everything 😂😂😂
I am really impressed by your honest speech. everyone that talks you down should wear a pair of pointe shoes and let them only try to stand for a tiny moment on point....That might cure them. I always wished I was a Dancer, but my life just took another direction. so at the age of 51 - though fit and pretty pliable - I am taking beginners classes, that teaches respect for your profession.....Go on like this👍👍👍👍
Claudia nawenberg it's never too late! Carry on with your passion mindless of what others say💕
my first and last initials are e.d. in 6th grade art class, we had to incorporate something that we love with our initials. so naturally, I drew the letters e and d inside of a pointe shoe. I showed it to my art teacher and she made me change it because she said e.d. might interpret to stand for eating disorder because it was in a ballet shoe. all in all, she made me start over and put my full intials which are e.p.d.
"Ballet muggles" got a huge smile and chuckle out of me, great video!
thank you for making this!!! I really want to share this with my extended family so they will stop driving me nuts over the holidays. If I had a dollar for every time someone has made a comment on my eating or diet I could probably pay for my tuition. I'm so done with people trying to convince me to go to college and get a "real job." I am still just a student but I spend more hours in the studio than some of the people who make those comments to me!
keep going!! (y)
The last point was great and just the tip of the iceberg... much more detail could be touched upon for the individual who believes dancers aren't bright or believes an intelligent person shouldn't "waste" it on dancing. Would love to see them participate in a ballet class, professional audition or rehearsal or creative process... then let's have a chat.
Here’s another one that kinda chaps me - we don’t do, “routines."
This! Ugh.
You are such a great speaker, Kirsten!
Aw thanks, Dylan!!!
P.S. Your videos are THE BOMB.
Gurl. You are ALLOWED to be pissed off. LoL! Thanks so much for sharing this :)
You are a magical brilliant person. Superb video. So graceful and kind they way you have put these important ideas forward. Love Sass
I came across this video by accident when I was looking for a video that gives the reasons why others like the ballet.
But nevertheless I found this video very interesting that’s presented by a young lady who is quite delightful and beautiful like Margot Fonteyn.
I am at the early stages of being an appreciator of the ballet and I have the preference for Swan Lake and the Nutcracker which is so lovely to me that I can watch it over and over again by various companies, although I have my favourites.
The music, the sets, and the dancing and the costumes are so beautiful.
I do believe that a good dancer needs to be a light hearted person. I find the ballet very lifting. Also I find that the ballet is terribly supportive and encouraging mostly happening unwittingly to the astute observing audience, who are free of those impediments which might impede their capacity to appreciate all that this great art has to offer.
The ballet should be for everyone but alas many will be denied its pleasure, as I once was, for the beauty they are yet to see is being denied them as they have to view life through a distorted lens.
Mores the pity.
It is for the refined.
Those who appreciate it are the cream of the crop. The cream of society.
Yay! Someone else who knows about Margot Fonteyn!
Glad you brought up the eating topic. As a male ballet dancer, it is so frustrating to hear ignorant comments about what I eat or how much I eat or even things such as I can eat more because I'll just burn it off. I wonder, do pro athletes hear such comments? I would think not because their body and what they do in life must be so fine tuned... dancers are the same. We must be in our optimal conditions to do what we do... for the same amount of time as a pro athlete if not longer actually.
I agree with every single one of these points. You are such an amazing dancer and you inspire me so much. I hope that one day I will be as good as you. Love from South Africa xxx
I'm so happy you made this video Kirsten! :)
This needed to be said!! Thank you!!
U can really tell she eats well, look at that glowing skin!
Although I'm not a dancer and never danced at all in my life (though I think Ballet is wonderful😊), I could relate so much, regarding my own job.
I work in the publishing industry and people are all the time surprised that it actually is a pretty hard job sometimes! Of course, it's not rocket science nor brain surgery, but you do have to know your stuff too and it can be super stressful because there are deadlines all the time. I feel like people tend to consider jobs having to do with subjects that are not as "important" as food and health and daily objects everyone uses on a super regular basis more easy than others.
I try not to, but I sometimes get offended if people are truly surprised that I work long hours every day and say "but why, it's just books?! Can't be that hard, can it??" Er, yes it can. I imagine, it's kind of similar with dancing (or other art forms), right? ☺
Omgosh I love your videos I just started ballet about a year and a half ago and your videos are really helpful!
That makes me so happy! Thank you!
Thank you for putting this video out there and for giving people an insight into ballet as a career.
These are so accurate and I so appreciate somebody actually making a video about it. This might just be me, but it really annoys me when people imitate ballet dancers to be funny. It's so frustrating because they make it seem like we just flounce around in tutus all day. I don't know, maybe it's just me.
Finally someone understands me!
I think a lot could be said for different professions and non as well. (working moms vs. stay-at-home comes to mind.) I, for one, am fascinated with dancers! Not one myself, but if I knew you, I'd be in awe and asking you all sorts of questions.
Anyway, I'd love to see a post about dancers aches and pains, etc. Or what it feels like to be on pointe. (how the feet feel too) I've heard dancers are always in pain, and I wonder if that is just while they're dancing or even when not. Does the pain carry over into later life as well? I hope this makes sense, as I've always wondered about that. And how you mentally work through that pain. (I work out, but when I'm in pain, I listen to my body, and take time off. -- NOT saying you should be doing that, rather, when I'M in pain, working out is the last thing on my mind, even though I want to.) Hope that makes sense! Thanks!
It really annoys me when ppl say ballet is easy
Mizz Mozz Same you’re so right!
Oml yes! No it isn’t easy to engage all your muscles while smiling and letting your arms flow
ahhhh black swan..i love that movie because of how well it represents what I interpret as schizophrenia but i'm always wishing people didn't think ballet companies are all like that lol
Have you seen the new show Flesh and Bone? Makes ballet companies look really nasty. Almost every character is a total asshole. I was hoping it would be more balanced than Black Swan and show some positive attitudes and behaviour.
www.bustle.com/articles/122045-how-accurate-is-flesh-and-bone-to-the-ballet-world-its-realism-may-surprise-you
+Cessily Well, it was about a struggling company, and going through serious transitions. It would make sense that people were stressed. I don't think that the goal was to represent for all ballet companies, and ballerinas, but to tell of a specific tragedy.
Yes, of course one story doesn't represent everything or everyone it encapsulates, but I'm saying that it adds to a negative view of the ballet world that is already out there (as evidence by the article I linked to - a lot of people already think, and I quote: "there's often such a dark world behind the beautiful costumes and the images of women smiling..."). And the characters were not portrayed as just stressed. They were often unprofessional and largely had awful personality traits.
+Cessily I summed up their being unprofessional, and having unsavory personalities, as products of stress. Of course there were a few petty characters, that didn't seem to have anything to be stressed about. But they weren't the focus. It was the girl escaping a twisted home environment, with little more than the clothes on her back, the woman with a drug problem, who's desperately trying to hold onto her ending career, the girl with a deadly disease, and the people struggling to keep the company afloat, and their pride intact. Being involved in ballet is only portrayed as PART of their issues; not the root of all evil.
It's a drama/tragedy. Not a reality show, or comedy. Of course the main focuses are gonna be the hot messes, who are more likely to meet tragic ends. But if it makes you feel any better, you can imagine everyone besides them, being tight-knit, normal friends. But that wasn't the artistic direction production wanted to go. I know it must suck for ballerinas who want a different kind of representation, but it is what it is.
Anyone can complain about film portraying their professions a certain way. Like construction workers portrayed as perverts, or lawyers portrayed as cold-hearted bullies, who don't actually care about the truth. And they're portrayed that way in the media, way more than ballerinas being depressed, with eating disorders are. There's like only Black Swan, and Flesh and Bone (and this short-lived reality show called "On Pointe"). Want to change the perception?... Make your own movie/show. The perception's already changing with ballerina vloggers, like this, and Teen Vogue doing multiple series' on ballet, that makes it look fun.
A happy medium between "fun" and f**ked-up would be nice. Drama is fine, but realistically grounded in a more balanced or pragmatic view of the ballet world.
Hi! I was wondering if you could do a video about going to college and still being able to get a professional dance company job? My parents are very concerned about this and I'm not sure what to do about it.
Great points, especially the last one. Love your videos! :)
Thank you! :)
Amazing video! I can understand a lot of the scenarios mentioned.
Your eyebrows are perfect. Truly. Best thing I’ve ever seen.
I enjoy your vids. Perhaps some of the "ignorance" about ballet and ballet dancers is because many people have never attended a performance and don't know anyone who is a professional dancer. They believe what's in films or TV, or rumors, etc. Like dancers starve themselves and exist on cocaine, coffee and cigarettes. lol I know that this isn't true, but many still believe it is. Or that all male dancers are gay. Do you know what I mean? The assumption that you're famous is sweet and funny! HAAHA, I thought "troupe" was for circus performers! I love what you said about people who don't understand what you do, and they don't want to understand. Most professional dancers are elite athletes, imho. It takes immense mental and physical strength, it's truly amazing. Well, this comment is already WAY too long, so thanks, Happy Thanksgiving, and kisses to Alice. :D
I hate when people say it's "Easy".
Madison Kanter ohmigosh yessssss
Madison Kanter exactly! People who say it’s easy, have no technique at all!
I wish people wouldn't assume I was a ballerina when I say I'm a dancer
And I wish people wouldn't think that pirouettes are called "twirls"
Hahaha yes I agree!!
Those two things are completely different. One is something you do when you're little and the other is a beautiful technique.
Dancer doesn't even have to mean ballet. I'm a "dancer"...I do tap and ballroom, not ballet.
Yessss
omg "toe shoes" is my biggest pet peeve
Bonnie Mei there's some girls at my school who can't stop talking about how excited they are for their first pair toe shoes. i don't know where they got it from, but it hurts my ears everytime ^^
When I first heard her say "toe shoes" I immediately pictured those shoes that have separate sections for each of your toes that many people wore last year (2016) I think. Pointe shoes are really pretty, and I think that I would die if I had to wear them.
When somebody says “toe shoes” I get so irritated I want to slap them into Jupiter.
My biggest pet peeve is when people say ballet is easy.
um okay learn a entire 40 min ballet or longer in less than an hour.
Easy huh?
I loved this! ❤️ Thank you for sharing!
when u say ur a dancer to someone and they ask questions about the relationship between u and Dance Moms 😫
I really hate when I say I dance and that I’m a ballerina people think that I was on dance moms and it makes me so mad! 😒 But, lately, I don't care anymore so just be nice and be caring to ballerinas and other people
I realized how many of these assumptions I held about ballerinas once I actually started learning ballet. Now I have nothing but awe and respect for ballet.
A little note on possibility: the sweet spot between hardcore and unattainable.
I've always had the view of ballet as being hardcore, and it has been a surprise to me to learn that not everyone holds this view. Some of the things you went over in this video (thinking that ballet is not intelligent or difficult, or that it's infantile etc) is just insane to me. People believing that Natalie Portman could dance en pointe (of course it was her body double doing that) after just 1.5 years as an adult learner, also insane.
I've actually had to learn that ballet is not as impossible as I thought it was. I thought that adults with no prior experience couldn't even take up ballet lessons (which I found quite sad, because I find the art/craft/discipline of ballet to be so admirable and beautiful) and have only recently discovered that that just isn't true: there are adult beginners, some of whom even make it onto pointe after a number of years. Amazing. The world just opened up for me in a way (at a stage of my life when many things seem to be closing down).
Yes please do a video on getting higher extensions
Thank you for clarifying your focus in eating! Your body is dependent on the fuel you provide it for best performance ... but there are times when you can splurge a big as well.
Amen!!
Great job explaining!
OMG YOU WERE A SWIMMER!!!! I'm a swimmer too and I've always wanted to learn ballet!!!! Could you please make a video about your experience as a swimmer? ILY SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Love it :) greats from Germany
malena.ballerina And from Austria :)
malena.ballerina and Australia
thanks for this lovely video and it really speaks to me slot even though I have been starting late in my early 20s and I'm always talked down being told these exact words I find it offensive or hurtful. I still want to be considered a pre pro ballet dancer regards of anything as well age. but really this was really helpful
Can you do a video Of how far you can point your toes ,what your shoes look like and what kind of padding you use and this video is so awesome because I have no idea what it is like to be a dancer, I want to be one but i really really want to
You are very intelligent and wise beyond your years.
I used to call them toe shoes, but now I call them pointe shoes (because it's more professional and the accurate name). Unfortunately, my mom still calls them toe shoes.
I love this video.. i'm a ballet dancer too .. when i watch this video i just 😎😎 yeah.. sooo truee
I took ballet for 3 years, from age 6-9. Not a long time. I miss it so much. Hopefully next year or the following year I'll be able to take classes again 💕
I’ve been dancing for 7 years (since I was 3) I’ve done gymnastics, ballet, modern, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, and tap. I love it and want a career out of it but just know, you may not be taken seriously for a while. It’s terrible how ballet dancers aren’t taken seriously even though ballet is very hard sometimes. But it is amazing and you really should do it again!
Oh my goodness! I have the issue where I go out to eat or I eat with people and they assume that I don't eat sweets. It's annoying, I'm often like ahhhh I was gonna eat that, but ok.
ballet is probably the most masculine of things. for example- the balance between very masculine and very feminine choreography in a pas de deux is beautiful.
Any tips for improving reaching a full split in grand jetes? As well as achieving a high develope. Also, do you have any excersizes for improving core strength and back flexibility? love your videos, thanks
Imogen Elizabeth stretch everyday for 15 mins you will reach the perfect split so soon
Imogen Elizabeth
Check out Kathryn Morgan's channel! One of my favorites and she has tons of workouts and tips for the things you mentioned.
You have to be able to achieve more than a split on the ground, then you will be able to do it in the air :)
Sasha M I try to stretch everyday and I have my splits on the ground, I have the flexibility just not the strength to hold it in the air! Thanks for the tip though
Grace M. I love Kathryn Morgan's channel!!! I've been watching for almost 2 years now, still need to work on my strength, thanks for the suggestion though :)
Have you ever wanted to give ballet up or had struggles with it? I was in a professional training program for 4 years and I have recently moved on from it because of mental illness and being unhealthy for so long... All I ever wanted was to be a ballerina but now I don't want it at all and I've had that thought in the back of my head for a long time now aswell:... Is that okay that I'm starting a new journey when ballet has been my life for such a long time!!??? Help :) xx
Amy Talbot I'm in the same boat! I just recently walked away from pursuing a career in ballet due to my health and battle with mental illness. Walking away from ballet is what I needed to do in order to get to a healthy place, although I do miss it so much and am still sad that I lost it.
Abby Stansell I can relate on so many levels, I've been grieving for a while, I treated ballet like a marriage and we just got a divorce after years of an abusive yet passionate, loving relationship haha it will hurt for a while but we will be alright in the end I'm sure girl!
A lot of this has been said to me and OMG it made me so mad but it pushed me to train harder 😏💪
You walk to the bar and someone comes up to you and asks you"do you remember that one amazing ballerina "what's the answer?
Look at the first word!💖
I want to start ballet but I'm kinda embarrassed about telling my parents or anyone they will say it's for girly girls but I can trust my best friend but my mum said it might be too late but after that I haven't said anything I'm a bit embarrassed but I do love ballet
Amelia Shields I’m pansexual and am a ballet dancer. I’m anything but feminine although pretending is nice, and the actual dance part too. I hope your family understands
It's never too late to start dance classes. I know lots of people start ballet really early and you might have younger girls thrown into the classes, but it's never too late for you to start dancing. :) Also, ballet is a very athletic and taxing thing to do, so it's not really entirely girly. I hope everything works out between you and your parents.
One thing is ballet can be expensive sometimes! Also DO NOT use cups on your feet for pointe shoes! Just saying. If you want to start it, just slowly and express your interest by maybe dancing around the house or try to have her catch you watching ballet videos a lot. Just slowly express your interest by your actions and not by your words. When you think she is starting to notice your interest just wait for the right time and ask. This may take 1 or 2 months. You aren’t going to start of en pointe. You have years to go before that. You have to start off with your basic positions and gaining strength in your ankles. It will take time an sometimes you might not want to do it. But if you quit just because you are to bored or tired of it for one day, you’re going to regret it trust me. Just keep going! Hope this helped! Also gear is very expensive too! Good luck!
Also ballet guys aren't all gay. Ballet is not just for girls.
celestiå but there’s nothing wrong with being gay. And some female dancers are gay too
the last one. So I was the valedictorian in my graduating class and everyone told me like see you in college have fun at Harvard and becoming like a world famous scientist, and I just say no that's not what i want to do. I'm going to dance and they're all like oh interesting, like wouldn't you rather go to college and be a scientist or like my dad said he liked my idea of scientist or you should have a back up plan and I just wish people understood that we're not stupid competitive starving little girls but we're hard working people.
Hi there - what lipstick are you wearing in your videos? I think it looks great!
Thanks! It's NARS Banned Red lipstick. It's my absolute favorite right now!
Love the video! But I think it's so sad, that being girly has such a negative connotation in society.
Thank you! I totally agree with you. I even feel like there are times when I accidentally speak of being girly in a negative way because I want to distance myself from the image of weakness that is associated with being a girl. That makes me even more sad because I want women to feel empowered no matter what their personality is! I'm very sorry if I came across that way in the video.
I believe that ballet is good for the body. ALTHOUGH I would never do it myself. I see it as a more of a feminine art, because all my life I have associated it with women. I also think that the whole dancing on stage to tell a story is weird.
I see that the training and practice is very rewarding when accomplished. But it would be hard to convince me to do ballet and perform on stage.
David bravo that’s absolutely fine, no one is making you do ballet, however it is not a feminine art, and it’s not weird to tell a story on stage, it’s really fun a lot of the time
I was on the train sitting with two girls going to ballet by the looks of it, and it was extremely annoying because they were crazy up themselves whilst talking to one another, and I was getting a lot of dirty looks. I love ballet even though I don't do it but that just really annoyed me.
neshreadsbooks I’m sorry they were crazy up themselves? What does that mean?
this video would have been way more interesting if you would have shortened it and talked about every thing for 2 minutes, bce it just gets repetitive and boring. i do understand that you don't have so much time to put all of yourself in these videos, since you're a ballet dancer, and fully understand it since im a dancer myself( though I'm not a professional, but still I've worked with and dance with few ballerinas). But it seriously would help your content and bring you more subscribers if you made your videos short, quick and clear.
I truly respect what you're doing and i could only wish to achieve something in the future with ballet. You're seriously amazing.
Aiste Norkute Thank you, I really do appreciate he feedback! I agree with you. I honestly think my discipline has been slipping a bit with my content since I've had less time to focus on it recently. My goal going forward is to hopefully put more time into prepping my content so that it will be more concise while also focusing on editing a bit more on the post-production side. Again, thanks for your feedback and support!
'Class' is just warm-up and maintenance.
What role are you in the nutcracker?
I'm doing Snow and Flowers :)
thank you
The fact that you distinguish people into two groups - ballet dancers and non-ballet dancer = normal - can be misleading
Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the evil in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love.
Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans
. The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom.
If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us into His image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. We cannot purify ourselves, but Christ lived that perfect sinless, pure life and then allotted it to our "account".
That's where our righteousness comes from. Not from any good, works that you or I could do.
It is not based on the amount of good works we do. God starts the changes, He carries it on, and He completes it in those who let Him.
It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him, again, through His power and instruction).
He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if YOU had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place.
He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, forgiveness, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it.
He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way.
NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER
If you have any questions let me know xx
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OK, 21 min of talking abt, we're nice, don't talk about food, fame, bias, taking class, companies not troupes, pointe shoes not toe shoes, we are NOT childish, being talked down to, and finally, I am intelligent! Yeah, I'd call that a rant and YES I'm rolling my eyes!!!
Sandra D I’m gonna take a wild guess and say you are not a dancer. And clearly, you have learned nothing here. So bye bye stupid
Unfortunately, the truth is, you are your own worst critic. When you go out in public, the only person thinking about you and ballerina issues, is you.
Humans are selfish.
Just be you, you seem awesome!!!!
Stop right now ! Stop making ballet "easier to understand for dummies", coz no need to make things easier than they are, ever.
Ballet must be a Mystery, a personal discovery as a part of Your life. If it's not happend in your entire life ---- pass aside, it's not yours...
For me, I'm not a bit of any kind of dancer, - for me Ballet is a Mystery which origins I still can't explain entirely. Almost nude women, explicit moves, few clothes ? Yes, but not core thing, something at the edge and fainting away when I get to the core, which is a Dance itself, a Talk going through body, originally programmed to very tight moves... I do not know. Definitely it's not a sexual thing. It's about me, a human of feelings, but not specially of sex or something like that (which is downgrade of feelings). Rather it's about All, above all... And it's breathtaking.
A Mystery behind glass. Let it be there, don't touch it, if you do it'll break apart and melt away in your hands...
(any kind of backstage in ballet is evil)
EXCUSE ME?! I AM SO TIRED OF THINGS LIKE THIS. OK, SO YOU ARE TIRED OF PEOPLE MAKING FUN OF BALLET. THERE ARE MUCH WORSE THINGS IN THE WORLD. I HAVE ADHD, ANXIETY, OCD, DYSGRAPHIA, AND TOURETTE SYNDROME, AND HERE YOU ARE BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT HOW AWFUL YOUR LIFE IS BECAUSE YOUR TIRED OF ALL THIS INACCURATE TALK ABOUT BALLET?! THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WITH ADHD, BEING TOLD TO PAY ATTENTION, AND CALM DOWN! THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WITH ANXIETY, WHO ARE BEING TOLD TO STOP WORRYING, WITH ALL OF THESE FEELINGS, AND PROBLEMS WITH THE WORLD, JUST FALLING ONTO YOUR BACK AS IF YOUR DESTINED TO BE SOME HERO, BUT YOU KEEP FALLING DOWN AND DOWN, UNTIL YOU FEEL LIKE EVERYONE WILL HATE YOU. AND YOU CANT CONTROL IT. YOU HAVNT FELT LIKE THIS BEFORE. YOU HAVNT BEEN ABLE TO ACTUALLY FEEL DESPAIR. TO FEEL LIKE EVERYONE HATES YOU. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO EVEN HAVE POSTED THIS VIDEO. YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON.
Of course there are worse things in the world, and those issues you brought up are certainly terrible! I am sorry you felt that this video belittled those problems, but it is quite clear that there were absolutely no comparisons made between ballet being misunderstood and living with a disorder. This is primarily because that is totally irrelevant from the subject matter of this video, but also because there is so comparison. I never suggested that people misunderstanding ballet is higher up than anything in a hierarchy of problems that exist in the world. I believe I made it quite clear that this was just a light hearted discussion and that I do not pity myself in any way just because I occasionally receive belittling comments about my profession. I also want to remind you that you do not know me, therefore, you cannot make assumptions about what hardships I have experienced. It is clear that this tone of video touched a nerve for you, and I am sorry for that. Just know that this was not at all the intention and to believe so is to misconstrue the truth.
The EMulator if you dont struggle with ballet, why are you here?
3.22 So true about the family and teamwork involved in ballet!