What does it take to be a ballerina? | Qualities you need to make it pro!
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2024
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Today we are talking about 11 things I think that a ballerina needs to possess in order to succeed and make it professional.
These qualities stem from physical attributes to having a specific mindset to deal with pressure.
I have learned from my own wins and losses what is really required!
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About Me
Hello everyone! my names Isabella.
I am the first British graduate of the Vaganova ballet academy in Saint Petersburg Russia. I was a soloist working with the Mikhailovsky Ballet and Eifman ballet.
Now I live in London as a full time coach
Here, on my channel I am sharing my passion with you all about the Vaganova technique amongst many other things related to ballet we all love.
It's a hard industry so I am here to help with my insights and knowledge to make it a little easier for you all, as well as to hopefully entertain you with my content.
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Isabella xo
You are such a pure soul Isabella. Thank you for sharing all your deep thoughts. From Russia with love
Thank you Isabella, I've learned so much from you. I'm a recreational ballet dancer, not having started until I was 50. I'm now 63 and have achieved more than I could have ever have imagined. I've actually progressed to pointe in centre and continue to see meaningful improvement in my confidence and technique since finding your channel. 💜 🩰
Thank you, Isabella! We have spoken about these beautiful qualities of being a ballerina over the years, and you have done a great job of educating us and inspiring us to be better in ballet and life. Brilliant!!!❤❤❤
You are so wise. Thanks! This is useful for ballet and beyond!
I feel like I had many of the qualities you mention: desire (neverending), musicality, capacity to listen and apply, flexibility, artistry... But I lacked the physique du rôle, if you know what I mean (yes, I mean extreme thinness) and because of this shortcoming, on which I did work on through dieting, I was allowed to go only so far by teachers. This broke my heart forever!
These days sometimes I see dancers with a body more similar to mine and I feel conflicted, isn't it funny? Part of me rejoices that times are changing, part of me doesn't like it.
When I watched the latest vaganova exam you showed us (year 7, I believe) and saw those "unusual" bodies I'm ashamed to say felt a little let down. I think it's because we're not used to seeing those kinds of shape, but also I instinctively thought "why yes to them and no to me?"
Sorry for the rant, Isabella and everyone else ❤
Terpsichore takes all whether classical ballet teachers like it or not.
No one is entitled to the life of an artist, no matter how much you may want it.
Don't blame yourself, I'm sure you did your level best, but sometimes life in this world can be that way - a jeer. We are a competitive species, no matter how good we do ourselves, there will always be someone else arriving to show us down. It may hurt, break the heart, but don't allow it to define you forever. Dance, like any art, is highly subjective. I do not know you, but I feel if you really worked your tail off on your craft and made your due sacrifices, it's in and of itself a trophy.
P.S. just my personal, subjective thought: I do not find that specific "physique du rôle" so standard in this industy all that wondrous, neither does much of the non ballet world, to be perfectly frank.
I wish you all the best to continue finding avenues and expressions for your own particular ballet art. ⚘️
@@emhu2594and no one is entitled to dictate whom can and can't feel entitled to what. But here you're sitting here behind your keyboard doing that very thing, sneering at others. Whew.
@@PeachyMushroom what are you even talking about at this point.
Thank you Isabella for sharing your huge knowledge of ballet and your deep and beautiful thoughts about life! You are an example of respect, kindness, beauty and grace to me!
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Thank you for this video. I am writing a book about a ballerina and this is great insight. Thank you.
Perhaps related to desire, artistry and soul; a need to search, a constant curiosity that reaches for the music and pulls the music and searches for emotion held in the body - something is connected and then searches to reach out beyond oneself. Again to connect. A constant cycle of searching, connecting and reaching. Allonge. But we're not grabbing. We're not keeping -rather we feel a presence as it passes?
This made me cry. There is a couple things that I feel are extremely important. Visualization. Seeing and feeling every little detail. Truly Loving all of it, so the joy you feel reaches and touches the people your dancing for.❤
EXCELLENT COMMENTARY! I believe that your wonderful guidance and lessons will help shape many future ballerinas! Keep up the Good Work, Isabella! 🌹🌟🌹🌟🌹🌟🌹🌟🌹🌟🌹
I just started your BWI trial; returning to ballet again as an adult because I have never stopped loving it and wanted to learn the Vaganova method/style.
Even with 15 years experience from my younger years, I have started at the very, very beginning. And I cannot believe how much new I have learned already about proper/better form.
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Thank you for your very thoughtfol comments, especially those on "intelligence" and seeking true understanding of an artform!
This relates to a question I ask myself very often as a recreational musician and dancer, namely: Where does artistic expression start? Is it when an audience watches or listenes to you not only out of mere politenes (thinking of recreational performances)? When people start to take something away from your performance? Or if they are ready to pay for your art?
Ultimately, a performing artist's goal is to move something within his or her audience. So, especially as a recreational performer: How can I utilize my limited skillset to achieve this, to come as close to true artistic expression as possible? I would love to hear your thoughts on that!
I was the opposite, I had ALL the desire and ALL of the discipline but ZERO facility 😭😭😭 so painful!
You’re so pretty! 🤍🩰
Of course she is. I am now 47...and I have yet in my lifetime to see a ballerina that is something else than beautiful. It is quite rare to see a non-beautiful bellydancer too.
Amazing!
After Isabella introduced herself I started wondering where her Vaganova classmates are dancing🤔🌷
Aloha, Isabella! May I know the first aritist you mentioned? Mahalo!
Hi! could you analyse the 3rd shade variation from la bayadere?