You've forgot another critical factor "spotting". When the ballerina leaves her head and quickly whips back to the same position, it also helps with the momentum.
I'm a dancer and it does help because when you whip the head back to its original spot, it forces the completion of the movement by helping you finish the turn.
And how does she prevent herself from getting dizzy and disoriented? By spotting: keeping her eyes focused on one single area of the audience as she turns, and then whipping her head around at the last possible moment to a forward position again - unlike what you see in this video. The body may turn at a fairly steady rate, but the head is rotating in a punctuated way, at twice the speed or more, but pausing in between each rotation. UPDATE: Please everyone stop commenting that this is called "spotting," I know, I was just trying to avoid getting technical with ballet jargon.
The fondue is more for have energy to start and after, you have to keep it. (plié is not really wong, because you have to do a plié in every case, on one or two foot)
I thought this was very interesting and well explained. People need to calm down: it's not supposed to be a ballet lesson, it just explains physical dynamics. Also his pronunciation of fouetté was very good, and I'm French, so stop being stuck up about it.
Ganychan I agree :) And sorry to be annoying but is your profile pic Hoseok?? 0.o I always feel like I'm the only existing human who likes ballet and BTS xD
Last year I was in the Antelope Valley Ballet Swan Lake!! I was a jester and got to see all of act 3!!! Watching Odile(the black swan's name) dance was amazing!!! It's like her dancing made the music play.
Correction, the hardest move in ballet is always the ending pose of a variation, when you are most tired. It is also one of the most important poses because it is what people will remember you for.
.....HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE! ....And also : no ballerina thinks about the laws of physics when dancing! Quite the opposite, the high level of art creates its own laws , more like a divine inspiration!
There are so many comments regarding "spotting." Spotting has nothing to do with the physics of the turn itself. It is used to keep focus and/or balance and because it looks good. Once en pointe, which is where the head whip occurs, you cannot add to the angular momentum of the turn. You lose some to friction, then regain it from the leg whip during flat foot. If one were to twist one's head from a standing still pointe position, the body would simply twist accordingly in the opposite direction, since angular momentum is conserved. Ballet teachers say certain things because they may be helpful cues, but that doesn't mean they are technically correct physics-wise. The same can be said for tour en l'air (or even regular pirouettes). It is impossible to jump up straight, then spin around. You need to gain angular momentum by "cheating" during the plie and jump.
Its ruining rather than just running... Covering the physics of everyday tasks at which the majority of people are involved in is way more interesting than covering some special tasks a lot of people dont even come by in their lives. You are better than this TedEd.
+The GamerzX Channel The task performed can be of little relevance when discussing the science behind it. In this video they discuss several different forces and how they interact, momentum along with the fact that seemingly small movements can create a relatively large force. You don't have to be interested in ballet to find that interesting.
+Lily En Pointe think about this, lets say you like planes, so you want to know more on physics about planes, you would preffer a planes video because it interests you. Now its really simple and self explanitory also simple social engineering that all the stuff you do on a daily basis is more apealing to you and would like to know in detail, like how your body functions, rather than things you are not connected too. I did not say the video wont get audience, it will however get way wider audience who appeal to this specific task, like ballet. If you dont understand this dont try to negate it like it is not true, you can compare views really simply after a fee days/months with a video which covers daily basis tasks and you should spot the difference in the view count. Simple ;)
+The GamerzX Channel I get what you're saying and I agree, it won't get as many views or appeal to as many people as a video on an everyday task would. However I still disagree strongly that they are ruining their channel. This video was of good quality and just because not everyone will click on this video, does not me that their channel is ruined.
+Lily En Pointe that was more a phrase because the strings look alike, they arent ruining it per se but it would be better to watch a video the majority of people like for what they subscribed in the first place. Its allright but a fee videos lately are highly connected to art.
Coming from a dancer myself and a science nerd, this video only partially true. In a turn like pirouette, one never "replenishes." That contradicts what he says in this video. A dancer's natural ability to take a deep plié also needs to be factored in. So when a dancer does 30 pirouettes, it is all because of the plié, not replenishing
As a dancer, I wouldn't call this necessarily the "hardest move" in ballet. I mean, it is very difficult to master, but at the end of the day it's a repetitive motion and after you master doing 5 fouettes you can just slowly build up that number. Also, you're not learning fouettes on pointe but rather in flat ballet shoes first, and then adding that extra challenge once you've mastered it flat-footed. I personally find doing many pirouettes much harder just because you never get that plie position to regain balance, gain momentum, recenter your focus etc. Plus you have to gauge how much force to exert for the turn before you push off, and that's it, there's never another chance to gain more momentum to complete more turns. Btw I'm talking about fouettes in general not the 32 turns in Swan Lake because I understand that's incredibly difficult and impossible for most dancers. Anyways that's just my two cents, thanks for reading :)
Everyone, stop touched about spotting, expertise, how he prounounce it and just - for once, sit back and enjoy the science of the hardest ballet move!😶😶😶😶😑😶😶🐦🐟
It's not magic that makes fouettés possible it's hard work... and physics (Newtons laws, friction..) is just there as is geometry and of course gravity that can help or hurt you
Olivia M. On pointe, I can only do 2. Maybe three. And that's only on my right. Left leg and on pointe? I'll be lucky if I can do 1. So don't worry. You're not alone. :)
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky I always find that it ruins the magic. Also i'm absolute garbage at math and physics scares me because of that. Which is why I prefer chemistry (even though they are very heavily intertwined).
Forewarning: I am a professional ballet dancer who teaches calculus. Neither of the options discussed as means of maintaining momentum are things that dancers do while doing these turns because they are not considered technically correct. 1. It is not considered a valid option to leave your leg out for longer to increase momentum. 2. It is also not an option to lower the leg to a position by the ankle to get more turns. The dancer must maintain a "passé" position with the foot at the knee. With the foot at the knee, pulling arms in to the chest does very little in increasing momentum. The two things that are actually done by dancers to get multiple pirouettes out of a string of fouettes are the following: 1. The gesturing leg and the opposing arm (*her* left in the video above) are coordinated so that they close very quickly at the same time, a rapid transition from an extended position to a streamlined one, increasing angular momentum. The harder that left arm pulls in, the more possible it is to do multiple pirouettes, but it must be done in tandem with the right leg. 2. This is combined with a lifting, rather than a dropping of the passé position (when the gesturing leg is at the knee in the turning position). By pulling the passe higher, the length of the body that deviates from a strictly vertical position has decreased, increasing the speed of the turn. I'm not sure where TED got either of the ideas for this video. If you watch any reputable dancer's performance, neither of the physical concepts presented in this video are used. TED - please employ the expertise of professional dancers next time. Thank you!
+Michelle Brochmann There are *very* rare instances where a choreographer changes how these are done. In this case, the standard 16 or 32 in a coda for Swan Lake, Don Q, Nutcracker, etc. we are not changing our passé; to a coupé; and we are not allowed to discernibly leave our leg out for longer because we cannot open it early (it will look over crossed to the front) or bring it in late, in which case it is now splaying the hips and too far to the side. This is a video about the basics of how this step is performed, and it cites two techniques to add multiple pirouettes, neither of which are used...
+Kate Penner yeah, talking about those options seems motivated by a discussion of physics and what might be possible. It's nice that you describe what is actually used in practice, although a bit difficult to understand not having done it.
Cheers! 진아 이야.♥ you really shouldn’t be “whipping” the leg. If you do it too fast, your leg will go past second position and knock you off balance. I might be interpreting this wrong so please, no one attack me lol.
+LadyAlizabith There is also a trick for that one - more easily said than done though! It's called spotting. Basically you always aim to look at the same spot in front of you and whip your head as soon as possible in order to keep that spot in sight. It's when you lose sight of that spot that you lose your balance.
this fucking channel, I swear all the random things you either don't care about or are plain ignorant about, presented in such beautiful, fascinating way I fucking love TED-Ed
This video showed a fantastic explanation of a Foutté, but I believed you missed one important part. To not get dizzy, us dancers, do this thing called, 'Spotting'. You focus at one spot while you're turning, and once you are back to the audience you quickly whip your head going back to that spot. This makes it easier to turn as well as limiting the dizziness so we can easily continue our dance.
+Vika Gresova they mention spotting at 1:05 I believe it wasn't emphasized because, dizziness aside, the movement of the legs is what matters to physics
Bethan Jenkins Not at all correct. If you don't spot you can fall all over the place. Doing a triple en pointe, I wasn't spotting correctly, and I fell and almost broke my tail bone. It is not just to keep from getting dizzy. Of all my years of ballet, I have never once thought spotting is to keep a danger from getting dizzy.
I would like to do two saults de basque and go straight to fouettés including triples and more and finish it with another sault de basque and relevé to arabesque.
+Denzel Sugayan Albert Einstein is quoted as to having said "dancers are the acrobats of God" ooops My bad, Thanks to VYVATUKAS TIUKAS : ) for pointing out Albert Einstein is quoted as to having said "dancers are the athletes of God"
One point is, the narration specifies that the 'working' or 'gesture' leg (the one not supporting the dancer) unfolds every time to the front and then whips out to the side, before returning to the passé retiré position in which the actual turning takes place. That is true of a French fouetté, but in a Russian one, the leg unfolds straight to the side and back in. This is useful when the tempo is particularly fast, and creates a more flashy, less lyrical effect. In recent years, this Russian fouetté style is far less often used, but it can be quite effective, and it's nice to have the different dynamics of the two different types of fouettés.
AvalonMorley yes. If you do the French style, to the russian technique, it’s not fouettés, they’re gonna be simply a sequence of pirouettes temps releve (opening front and bringing to the side). Also is good to remind the the actual fouetté for the russian technique is more about closing the leg on passe back and bringing it front (fouetté) rather than turning.
"it is not magic that made it possible, it's physics." Oh come on, isn't physics the thing that's making the move seemingly impossible at the first place? Friction? Gravity? Anyone? I did enjoy the video though.
+Zachary Taylor as I said earlier, physics also made the movement impossible (gravity & friction), we are merely overcoming the limitations induced by physics by applying more physics (biomechanics).
This video is great, although it leaves out two of ballet's most important turning fundamentals: the fondu and spotting. Both create stored momentum by "resisting" the existing momentum of the previous turn. Your graphic shows the dancer lowering the heel of her foot without bending the knee between each turn. This is incorrect - there must be a fondu (single-leg, bent knee) in a externally rotated position between each turn. The fondu "resists" the circular rotation of the fully extended leg. The dancer waits until the extended leg is in second position (directly to the side) to push into the floor with the standing foot to rise to pointe and turn. And in spotting, a dancer leaves the head in a forward-facing position while the body is rotating. At the last possible moment, the dancer whips the head around to the same forward-facing position to create an unwinding spiraling down the spine, releasing the momentum.
He didn't mention spotting and spotting is a huge part of doing any type of turn
Hi Alexis!
Alexis Taylor no spotting is for the dancer...so that they don't get dizzayyyy
It's because spotting has nothing to do with the physics of the turn itself. It's a technique to keep focus, and it looks good.
Well, yeah, but still. It's a great explanation
jlushefski but if you don’t use spotting you will fall
You've forgot another critical factor "spotting". When the ballerina leaves her head and quickly whips back to the same position, it also helps with the momentum.
ikr? its one of the most important things! why you no mention dat.. why?
And it keeps them from getting to dizzy!
But it does though, it helps with your balance and momentum. Pretty sure those too are part of physics.
Amy Chen and also helps so you won't get really dizzy
I'm a dancer and it does help because when you whip the head back to its original spot, it forces the completion of the movement by helping you finish the turn.
Number 2 would never happen. The moment you drop your elbows or knee is the moment your teacher smacks you with a cane.
Thet Moe Khine or she smack and or throws a remote at you
Thet Moe Khine She smacks me with her bare hands and sometimes the air conditioning remote.
Thet Moe Khine 😂😂😂 or your prop
Exactly what I thought 😂 I would be counting down to the moment that remote smacks into my elbow hahahaha
Haha so true
And how does she prevent herself from getting dizzy and disoriented? By spotting: keeping her eyes focused on one single area of the audience as she turns, and then whipping her head around at the last possible moment to a forward position again - unlike what you see in this video. The body may turn at a fairly steady rate, but the head is rotating in a punctuated way, at twice the speed or more, but pausing in between each rotation. UPDATE: Please everyone stop commenting that this is called "spotting," I know, I was just trying to avoid getting technical with ballet jargon.
all that sounds very much dangerous if something goes wrong. Can you get hurt badly doing it?
aka spotting! :)
Yeah, I didn't want to get too technical here with the ballet lingo... :D
Spotting
"Yeah, I didn't want to get too technical here with the ballet lingo... :D" I was music director of a ballet company at age 23, erhem. :)
they didn't include plié , it's very important smh
The fondue is more for have energy to start and after, you have to keep it. (plié is not really wong, because you have to do a plié in every case, on one or two foot)
@Emily yes but it's not totally wrong. Plié mean not straight so... But of course, you are right, the word is fondue
I thought this was very interesting and well explained. People need to calm down: it's not supposed to be a ballet lesson, it just explains physical dynamics. Also his pronunciation of fouetté was very good, and I'm French, so stop being stuck up about it.
Ganychan I know right. I was about to say the same thing.
Ganychan I agree :) And sorry to be annoying but is your profile pic Hoseok?? 0.o I always feel like I'm the only existing human who likes ballet and BTS xD
YOU'RE NOT ANNOYING YES IT'S HIM AAAHHHHHH
I love dance in general, whether it's crazy Hoseok or ballet :)
Ganychan haha that's amazing!!! his dancing is perfect! * - * I love to watch him dance :) (although my bias is Jungkook ♥)
Kookie IS the golden maknae, but I love my golden horse
When spotting. Is. EVERYTHINGGGGGGG
don't forget about spotting...that's what stops the dizziness and turns overall
I'm a dancer and we do this all the time!!
Last year I was in the Antelope Valley Ballet Swan Lake!! I was a jester and got to see all of act 3!!! Watching Odile(the black swan's name) dance was amazing!!! It's like her dancing made the music play.
But the problem isn't momentum or force its balance...
This video was beautifully animated and effectively animated. Good Job, Ted-Ed.
Correction, the hardest move in ballet is always the ending pose of a variation, when you are most tired. It is also one of the most important poses because it is what people will remember you for.
Two months ago I took part in a production of Swan lake and it was unbelievable how many turns the principal dancers could do!
.....HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE!
....And also : no ballerina thinks about the laws of physics when dancing! Quite the opposite, the high level of art creates its own laws , more like a divine inspiration!
I've always have been good at fouettés. I like never really think about it.
That 32-point turn is probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to practice and I still can not get it. Some day though.
Me: Not even slightly interested in ballet.
Me: Not even slightly interested in physics.
Also me: OH COOL!!
The pronunciation of fouetté is wrong here. Consider the u silent when saying fouetté.
+Faith Kemp I know; this makes me cringe!
I am a dance teacher now, and I could do 41 turns when I was 11.
There are so many comments regarding "spotting." Spotting has nothing to do with the physics of the turn itself. It is used to keep focus and/or balance and because it looks good. Once en pointe, which is where the head whip occurs, you cannot add to the angular momentum of the turn. You lose some to friction, then regain it from the leg whip during flat foot.
If one were to twist one's head from a standing still pointe position, the body would simply twist accordingly in the opposite direction, since angular momentum is conserved. Ballet teachers say certain things because they may be helpful cues, but that doesn't mean they are technically correct physics-wise.
The same can be said for tour en l'air (or even regular pirouettes). It is impossible to jump up straight, then spin around. You need to gain angular momentum by "cheating" during the plie and jump.
He pronounced it foo-what-ay 😂 and it erked me so much.
it's not physics that makes this possible it's hard work and training on the dancers part!
The arms aren't just for balance, using the shoulders is very important to the turns
The best ted video ever
Is ballet a running theme now at TED hq?
Its ruining rather than just running... Covering the physics of everyday tasks at which the majority of people are involved in is way more interesting than covering some special tasks a lot of people dont even come by in their lives. You are better than this TedEd.
+The GamerzX Channel The task performed can be of little relevance when discussing the science behind it. In this video they discuss several different forces and how they interact, momentum along with the fact that seemingly small movements can create a relatively large force. You don't have to be interested in ballet to find that interesting.
+Lily En Pointe think about this, lets say you like planes, so you want to know more on physics about planes, you would preffer a planes video because it interests you. Now its really simple and self explanitory also simple social engineering that all the stuff you do on a daily basis is more apealing to you and would like to know in detail, like how your body functions, rather than things you are not connected too. I did not say the video wont get audience, it will however get way wider audience who appeal to this specific task, like ballet. If you dont understand this dont try to negate it like it is not true, you can compare views really simply after a fee days/months with a video which covers daily basis tasks and you should spot the difference in the view count. Simple ;)
+The GamerzX Channel I get what you're saying and I agree, it won't get as many views or appeal to as many people as a video on an everyday task would. However I still disagree strongly that they are ruining their channel. This video was of good quality and just because not everyone will click on this video, does not me that their channel is ruined.
+Lily En Pointe that was more a phrase because the strings look alike, they arent ruining it per se but it would be better to watch a video the majority of people like for what they subscribed in the first place. Its allright but a fee videos lately are highly connected to art.
This is for my homework LOL
same lol
This is how I teach my students torque and angular momentum.
It is almost impossible to watch these kind of stuf without thinking about physics 😂😂
that was the first time ever, I actually found physics interesting
I learned to do this when I was 12 I had a very strict teacher it was very hard to do and very stressful
Coming from a dancer myself and a science nerd, this video only partially true. In a turn like pirouette, one never "replenishes." That contradicts what he says in this video. A dancer's natural ability to take a deep plié also needs to be factored in. So when a dancer does 30 pirouettes, it is all because of the plié, not replenishing
As a dancer, I wouldn't call this necessarily the "hardest move" in ballet. I mean, it is very difficult to master, but at the end of the day it's a repetitive motion and after you master doing 5 fouettes you can just slowly build up that number. Also, you're not learning fouettes on pointe but rather in flat ballet shoes first, and then adding that extra challenge once you've mastered it flat-footed. I personally find doing many pirouettes much harder just because you never get that plie position to regain balance, gain momentum, recenter your focus etc. Plus you have to gauge how much force to exert for the turn before you push off, and that's it, there's never another chance to gain more momentum to complete more turns. Btw I'm talking about fouettes in general not the 32 turns in Swan Lake because I understand that's incredibly difficult and impossible for most dancers. Anyways that's just my two cents, thanks for reading :)
It's not necessarily wrong, however, you don't need your arms to maintain momentum. It's spotting that does that.
That is so awesome! Thanks for posting!
SPOTTING SPOTTING SPOTTING
That's what makes the turn
Crazy good animation
I sucked at fouettes on pointe, but I loved doing them flat footed
Everyone, stop touched about spotting, expertise, how he prounounce it and just - for once, sit back and enjoy the science of the hardest ballet move!😶😶😶😶😑😶😶🐦🐟
they can also be called second turns i just learned how to do them
Honestly that cartoons face is me everytime 😂
did anyone else cry a little every time he said "fou-et-tay" instead of "fwet-tay"? it's 2 syllables! great video though!
wow that pronunciation of fouetté😁😂
without spotting it wont work & he didint mentioned
Still doesn't explain the magic of dancers like Tamara Rojo
U don't always use pòint shoes u can use leather canvas also known as split shoes
the way they say it Foo-ette loool
It's not magic that makes fouettés possible it's hard work... and physics (Newtons laws, friction..) is just there as is geometry and of course gravity that can help or hurt you
My fave move ever
Consevation of Angular Momentum sounds like something that could make Beyblades more powerful!
Search "Black Swan fouettes" great 30 seconds video of Gillian Murphy.
Fun thing to hear about , beautiful to watch.
Awesome! Thanks :)
She's not even spotting 😒😂
My dance teacher would not approve 😒😂
+Hailey Floding neither would mine 😂
Anyone else see the girl that did 92 fouettés
Turning access, more like core
His/her bottom knee bends too!
They didn't talk much about the working leg, and it pulling in closer to your center provides less of a retarding force for the dancer
you should make a why are dreams so real video
This was kinda on the awesome side- even though I'll still hafta watch it a couple more times to *really* understand the physics of it. LOL
I would love to see a clip of a real dancer performing this
Actually, the hardest move in ballet is smiling while your feet are like chicken legs in the middle of a routine.
watch me fouetté, watch me nay nay
Amei demais😍
Melhor vídeo!
Eu na vida: balé e física ❤
I can only do like 4 fouettes I feel so ashamed.
Olivia M. On pointe, I can only do 2. Maybe three. And that's only on my right. Left leg and on pointe? I'll be lucky if I can do 1. So don't worry. You're not alone. :)
okay but how do they not get dizzy or show signs. is it just the self control
superb
Loved everything but how you said fouetté. Maybe it's pronounced differently in different places.
I'M SO CONFUSED 😲😲😕
Everything is always made more interesting when an analysis of physics is added.
+Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky I always find that it ruins the magic.
Also i'm absolute garbage at math and physics scares me because of that. Which is why I prefer chemistry (even though they are very heavily intertwined).
True
I love how you always comment on science videos. and I agree entirely, it adds a sense of beauty that appeals to your intellect.
***** Which is why I prefer chemistry.
Even if it entirely based off of math. It's more of a conceptual thing, at least to me.
the dancer model didn't spot- unacceptable
Ballet is a serious business
Randomgreninja YT Dang, that's must be terrible...
Randomgreninja YT Ouch that must have hurt how long we're u out of ballet for
*were not we're
I am so bad at (I'm probably spelling this wrong) fuetes while doing pointe
Evie the human *fouettes
Why is everyone crying because they can only do 4? I can only do 0 and that's fine with me
Remus Lupin I can only do 1
wolf star 😍😍😍😍
Vicki Vu Wolfstar is my otp 😍
hahahahahahahah ikr hahaha one is enough :v
you don't care because maybe ballet is not so important for you. But it's important for me
Fouetté secrets revealed =)))
now we can all turn flawlessly
-no not in real life, in our imagination 😄
+mydancetv yaay I know you!
this is really helpful for me. I have never been to ballet lessons. I just learned the moves off RUclips ballet videos. your ballet is amaxing
ballet madXxxxc can you give me the links, please ?
mydancetv subscriber here!
Forewarning: I am a professional ballet dancer who teaches calculus. Neither of the options discussed as means of maintaining momentum are things that dancers do while doing these turns because they are not considered technically correct.
1. It is not considered a valid option to leave your leg out for longer to increase momentum.
2. It is also not an option to lower the leg to a position by the ankle to get more turns. The dancer must maintain a "passé" position with the foot at the knee. With the foot at the knee, pulling arms in to the chest does very little in increasing momentum.
The two things that are actually done by dancers to get multiple pirouettes out of a string of fouettes are the following:
1. The gesturing leg and the opposing arm (*her* left in the video above) are coordinated so that they close very quickly at the same time, a rapid transition from an extended position to a streamlined one, increasing angular momentum. The harder that left arm pulls in, the more possible it is to do multiple pirouettes, but it must be done in tandem with the right leg.
2. This is combined with a lifting, rather than a dropping of the passé position (when the gesturing leg is at the knee in the turning position). By pulling the passe higher, the length of the body that deviates from a strictly vertical position has decreased, increasing the speed of the turn.
I'm not sure where TED got either of the ideas for this video. If you watch any reputable dancer's performance, neither of the physical concepts presented in this video are used. TED - please employ the expertise of professional dancers next time. Thank you!
More than one way to do fouettes... Depends on the choreographer!
+Michelle Brochmann There are *very* rare instances where a choreographer changes how these are done. In this case, the standard 16 or 32 in a coda for Swan Lake, Don Q, Nutcracker, etc. we are not changing our passé; to a coupé; and we are not allowed to discernibly leave our leg out for longer because we cannot open it early (it will look over crossed to the front) or bring it in late, in which case it is now splaying the hips and too far to the side. This is a video about the basics of how this step is performed, and it cites two techniques to add multiple pirouettes, neither of which are used...
I was waiting for somebody to point this out😂
+Kate Penner Yea I agree. The 'rules' are very 'strict'.
+Kate Penner yeah, talking about those options seems motivated by a discussion of physics and what might be possible. It's nice that you describe what is actually used in practice, although a bit difficult to understand not having done it.
I guess you could say she's- on pointe
i am using that on my sister who does ballet😂
Its En Pointe.
it's a joke.
Mo Ballet Vlogs I mean that's really not a hard pun is it. It's changed one letter.
CreativeChrono0 hush
as a dancer, this video is almost funny as I've never evaluated my turns like this
Mikayla Sinnott SAME
I know right
It's calling fouetté because you're whipping with your leg, not just because you're spinning ^^
Cheers! 진아 이야.♥ I was thinking that too! He kept calling them all fouettés when some were just regular pirouettes.
Cheers! 진아 이야.♥ Yeah I was thinking that! also I like your profile picture :D
Thank you. You beat me to it. ;)
Cheers! 진아 이야.♥ *turns ;) spinning would be figure skating
Cheers! 진아 이야.♥ you really shouldn’t be “whipping” the leg. If you do it too fast, your leg will go past second position and knock you off balance. I might be interpreting this wrong so please, no one attack me lol.
This is such a wonderful explanation of the fouetté - thank you Ted-Ed!
woah how did you get 694 likes yet no replies
so like everything in this video is wrong from a technical standard. no clue where they got any of this info. all of it is wrong.
Watching this video made my feet hurt a little.
Look up "ballerina feet"... They sure do go through a lot of pain to dance the way they need to. Truly dedicated people
As a ballerina, I will say my feet hate me lol
+Shortninja66 True. This is one function that the human body most definitely did not evolve to perform properly without damage.
+Lozen Robinson lol me, too!
same.....but that could also be from dancing on pointe for hours today and they are sore.....just a thought
the real magic is them not getting dizzy.
+LadyAlizabith There is also a trick for that one - more easily said than done though! It's called spotting. Basically you always aim to look at the same spot in front of you and whip your head as soon as possible in order to keep that spot in sight. It's when you lose sight of that spot that you lose your balance.
Zavedi234 yeah ive heard of that, but it's never worked for me... :/
You really get better at it by practicing:))
+Zavedi234 Spot Turns is what my dance teacher tells us.
only practicing haha
this fucking channel, I swear
all the random things you either don't care about or are plain ignorant about, presented in such beautiful, fascinating way
I fucking love TED-Ed
+zdulcun Same m8
Its gr8 m8 I'd r8 it 8/8 m8!
+zdulcun You certainly have a limited vocabulary.
zdulcun was about to fight ya but then I finished reading
This video showed a fantastic explanation of a Foutté, but I believed you missed one important part. To not get dizzy, us dancers, do this thing called, 'Spotting'. You focus at one spot while you're turning, and once you are back to the audience you quickly whip your head going back to that spot. This makes it easier to turn as well as limiting the dizziness so we can easily continue our dance.
+Vika Gresova was looking for commments on the missing point on spotting!
Thank you!! This is one of the most important factors to keep the balance while turning and they didn't even mention it... Glad you said it:)
+Vika Gresova they mention spotting at 1:05 I believe it wasn't emphasized because, dizziness aside, the movement of the legs is what matters to physics
That wasn't describing spotting, it just described that when the dancer is faced to the audience, she rises on her toes, etc.
+Vika Gresova I think that's more the physiology of fouetté...?
this guy's pronunciation of Fouetté makes me cringe.
Lol. Same
fooetay lol
That was the first thing I noticed and I haven't taken a legit ballet class for two years now :(
me to
What is the correct pronunciation then?
As a ballerina the fact that she is not spotting is hurting me. He didn't even mention that once and without spotting this wouldn't work one bit...
Spotting is also one of the main reasons how you keep balance while turning
Dance Moms Supreme it helps you turn too
no one never remembers to comment about spotting!!!
@@fausseteen7969 also to find the right axis
Dance Moms Supreme I
Any ballerinas here? You are awesome!
zoji rushi hey
dont forget the ballerinos too
Ouzé A ballerino isn't actually a thing. And a ballerina is only principle (prima, the best dancers).
well, the technical term would be just "ballet dancers" because only the principal role in a show is a "ballerina"
Btw, forgot to mention, I am a ballet dancer XD
He forgot about whipping their head around aswel
Spotting.
That mostly makes sure the dancer doesn't get dizzy, that's what my dance teachers told me.
Bethan Jenkins Not at all correct. If you don't spot you can fall all over the place. Doing a triple en pointe, I wasn't spotting correctly, and I fell and almost broke my tail bone. It is not just to keep from getting dizzy. Of all my years of ballet, I have never once thought spotting is to keep a danger from getting dizzy.
That is not entirely true. The spotting is done to produce speed and to keep the dancer very sharp.
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Physics and the skill of the dancer. You forgot that part.
+Daph Duck ..."physics and the skill of the dancer" plus endless hours of practice.
+Rachel Xavier the skill obviously comes from practice
Completely agree
I so agree it takes a lot of skill to stay up on pointe while doing fouettés and not falling
The pronunciation of fouetté 😂👌🏻 No but seriously loved this video. Gonna keep this in mind next time I go to class
You also forgot to spot witch helps them not get dizzy. Lol dancer tils
Tips*
*which 😊
Omg, sorry, I couldn't help it. 😄
Spectra329 i mean,,all dancers learn that at the age of like 5 lmao..
Lol yesss
Combining 3 of my favorite things: Ballet, Physics and Animation.
I love it!
+Duck moo
+Duck
Woof! Woof!
What a RUFF day...
Duck Norris
Get ducked on
I ate duck once looool
The one true origin of "Watch me WHIP. Watch me nae nae."
Same.
Preach lol
Lily Fiel .
Arushi Gupta yes
watch me whip, watch me chaine ;)
Hands up if your understanding of Conservation of Angular Momentum came from an office swivel chair? =P
I would like to do two saults de basque and go straight to fouettés including triples and more and finish it with another sault de basque and relevé to arabesque.
Ikr!! This animated ballerina is out of this world xD
Bravo Louise!
Also spotting and pliés. (Bending of the knee) or else this would be painful and impossible.
Albert einstein should teach ballet
+Denzel Sugayan
Albert Einstein is quoted as to having said "dancers are the acrobats of God"
ooops My bad, Thanks to VYVATUKAS TIUKAS : ) for pointing out
Albert Einstein is quoted as to having said "dancers are the athletes of God"
One problem, he’s dead.
I cringe at the way he says fouetté
why tho
Ellen Charlie fouetté is pronounced 'fweh-tey' not 'foo-eh-tey'
I'm French and it didn't shock me. He just separated the syllables a little, which helps with his pronunciation.
I was born and raised in france as well haha, I swear the way he pronounced it isn't wrong. completely agree with Ganychan (vive la france mdrr)
Ellen Charlie ouaiiiiis !
One point is, the narration specifies that the 'working' or 'gesture' leg (the one not supporting the dancer) unfolds every time to the front and then whips out to the side, before returning to the passé retiré position in which the actual turning takes place. That is true of a French fouetté, but in a Russian one, the leg unfolds straight to the side and back in. This is useful when the tempo is particularly fast, and creates a more flashy, less lyrical effect. In recent years, this Russian fouetté style is far less often used, but it can be quite effective, and it's nice to have the different dynamics of the two different types of fouettés.
thank you for this comment, as a ballet dancer, i didn't' even know this
AvalonMorley yes. If you do the French style, to the russian technique, it’s not fouettés, they’re gonna be simply a sequence of pirouettes temps releve (opening front and bringing to the side). Also is good to remind the the actual fouetté for the russian technique is more about closing the leg on passe back and bringing it front (fouetté) rather than turning.
Not only the physics, but also the insane stresses on the human skeleton & tendons...
"it is not magic that made it possible, it's physics."
Oh come on, isn't physics the thing that's making the move seemingly impossible at the first place? Friction? Gravity? Anyone?
I did enjoy the video though.
Lol true true
I don't understand what you are saying is wrong with the quote? Physics is certainly what makes the move possible.
+Zachary Taylor as I said earlier, physics also made the movement impossible (gravity & friction), we are merely overcoming the limitations induced by physics by applying more physics (biomechanics).
This video is great, although it leaves out two of ballet's most important turning fundamentals: the fondu and spotting. Both create stored momentum by "resisting" the existing momentum of the previous turn. Your graphic shows the dancer lowering the heel of her foot without bending the knee between each turn. This is incorrect - there must be a fondu (single-leg, bent knee) in a externally rotated position between each turn. The fondu "resists" the circular rotation of the fully extended leg. The dancer waits until the extended leg is in second position (directly to the side) to push into the floor with the standing foot to rise to pointe and turn. And in spotting, a dancer leaves the head in a forward-facing position while the body is rotating. At the last possible moment, the dancer whips the head around to the same forward-facing position to create an unwinding spiraling down the spine, releasing the momentum.
jeeze, ballet should be an olímpico sport!!
dresden agree!
dresden yes I do ballet and I hate it when people say that's cute coz what they don't know is that it's actually as hard, or even harder than a sport!
Elenovska Beli Ballet is a sport, and that's what people don't get :/
dresden Ballet is an art and there are not real ballet competitions.
Roxana then why is it so wide spread, with royal theaters and a living being made off of it