Tore three ligaments doing an entirely different sport a few years ago, and the experience just flashed before my eyes, right down to the having "guns" after the first two weeks on crutches. I'm not a dancer, but it's very heartening to hear that you were able to end up a soloist despite having the injury so early in your career.
I love these Once Upon a Pointe stories! It's so fun to get a peek into the world of SAB and NYCB. Your perseverance is so inspiring and encouraging. Thank you!
It was good to see you back again and I think it would be interesting to hear company stories. Also I have sort of a Q and A question 2 actually one is have you experience Character dance while continuing your ballet training and how to deal with people who don't understand what being a dancer means to you?
Do you think you could do a video about corps de Ballet work? The hardest thing for me is dealing with the long stands in large ballets like Swan Lake or Les Sylphides. Do you have any tips for that? Loved this video!!
I would love to hear more about when you were younger! I always love hearing about professional dancers past and who inspired them to become the dancers they are now💗
I actually find it really comforting that a pro shares having an “achilles heel” with me. I’m only 13.5, and my left kneecap already got dislocated twice. Besides my mulling over injuries, great video! These are very interesting! I’d personally love to hear about the company stories first, since it was asked.
I know this is random but I am in love with the color and finish of your new pointe shoes! It's such a silvery toned opaque pink and I cannot stop looking at them. IMO they're much more attractive than the salmon colored pointe shoes with a shiny finish. But great entertaining video as always!
Oddly enough, my freshman year of school I had a severe sprain in my right ankle and I was out of ballet for 4 months and thought I was out for good. However my sophomore year I auditioned in January for the summer intensive with Joffery ballet, and I got in! It really goes to show how it may seem like 1 injury is the end but it may not be.
Loving these videos! I'm off injured at the moment with a back and an ankle injury and it's so hard, especially when everyone else is dancing and you're sat out :( But it's so nice to hear your stories and have a peek into the ballet world :)
Love these , so inspirational and uplifting . Hard work always pays off even after failure work harder till you succeed. It's easy to quit it's harder to fight .
I think it would be lovely if you could alternate your starting ballet videos and your company videos, but name then as two different series! Love you xx
I ruptured my right calf muscle landing a grand jete in 2012, and it still plays up to this day. I was in a cast for 7-weeks & the muscle wastage I suffered not using it has caused my calf to now look like a shelf! My students think it is so funny 😂 They call it my twingy leg.
Wow I can’t believe that this video came out today!! Yesterday I re-watched all the other Once Upon a Pointe videos and was wondering when this video would come out!! I love these videos!!
I also sprained my right ankle this fall but luckily it healed really well and I've been fully back for a while. I'd be really interested in hearing what happened next!!
I love these story time videos! I know you mentioned that the adoption story was on hold because something happened, which is 110% understandable! Will that still be happening? You’re just a fantastic storyteller! Also, are you still doing vlogs on the other channel? 😊❤️
Company Stories please!!! Also, I have a question... I am 17 years old, and inmy junior year of highschool and i still train at a small local ballet studio and im trying to get into a major ballet school, do you think it is too late for me? Thank you! ❤️
For girls night awhile back, we watched Center Stage. I know that it probably has very little truth in it. Have you ever watched it? What do people who have attended SAB think? What strikes you as the funniest/most annoying parts?
I would love to hear about your journey as a tinny dancer and how you came to be! I have a young dancer right now and love to hear how professionals went about growing and learning before making it big!
I would love to see how you started off at ballet, as if I remember you started at a older age? and I feel like it would help a lot of people that are in the same situation you were in and how to progress! xxxxx
I would like to see what it was like for you when you were 13, 14 years old because that is my age and I am interested where you went for summer and stuff like that! Love ya ❤️
Oh my goodness! I had the same thing happen for one of my group routines my senior year of high school. A girl couldn't perform (I can't remember why), and I had to take her spot which did all of the steps in the opposite direction, as well as changing where I was on the stage (by a lot!). This was the Monday before the performance on Saturday, and we didn't have any practices in between. It was terrifying!
Your videos are so inspiring! I would absolutely love to start ballet, but I'm already fifteen and any classes I try to get into have eight and nine year olds in them. I think I found a good academy and I'm going to start taking lessons this summer. Is there any chance that I could get into SAB in the future?
Love these videos as I do all your vids! I'd definitely love to hear more company stories and have a request- can you do a video explaining what petit allegro jumps can beat and how do to them? Maybe even exercises to help? We don't do a lot in my adult classes and those who know go for it, and I'd like to go for it too! (eventually haha)
I love your channel! I just started one to share my dance journey too. Just finished a contract with The Met. Thank you for sharing your experiences. It is so helpful to fellow dancers who want to do the same someday
Hi Kathryn, can you do a video about how to improve musicality in terms of dancing? It's something I really struggle with, even outside of dancing I just generally have no rhythm
I actually got the exact same injury on my left foot almost two months ago by doing brises. I had just been cast as Clara for my final nutcracker too. I took two weeks off, going to acupuncture and physical therapy almost daily. I was able to perform as first cast still but the injury is definitely still an issue unfortunately.
I would love to see and hear you go backwards in time for a bit! I would be delighted to hear your early stories again, and in a little more depth. Nothing too personal, but a glimpse of you and your family and what they thought about this thing over time. Like the first time “Uncle Henry” actually saw you dance! And little girlfriends you had that maybe you shared dance with. And perhaps when you became an adolescent ballerina. Ballet helped me so often, so often in my life. ..when little, whenever I had a bad dream (I was frightened of spiders). I dreamt of them sometimes. What worked after the folks settled me down was, I would imagine myself in the center of the stage, with big, soft golden curtains, and bright spot light. I would see myself in a short, soft, tutu standing in the center with a bright circle of light all around me. The spider could not step in to the light. And he would stay away and outside until I fell safely asleep. And that was just one of the ways ballet saved me... I’m sure it saves other small boys or girls! 😘❤️✨Thank you Katie.. you just make my day some times! Hope you and the girls and hubs are all well and fine. Marty.
can you do how you started ballet when you were little? Loved this video!! Much love! I am so glad I watch your video! They are so informative and AMAZING!💖
I'm a part-time teacher and a conversation with my students about discipline and punishment yesterday prompted a couple of questions I'd love to have your answers to. I was wondering- how was disobedience or being unprepared to work or any stuff like that handled at SAB? I kind of can't imagine a whole bunch of teenagers never ever stepping out of line. Even if you're set on a goal at that age students probably aren't always perfectly behaved... I'd love a comment on what was expected of the students in general and what the consequences were for misbehaving... like not showing up to class, not doing your school work not checking out when you left, disrupting class, being cheeky... maybe if you did another Q&A you might be able to cover that
I am the last person in my friend group to get point shoes, and I am doing my exercises twice a day. I REALLY want my point shoes, and my teacher says that I need to work on alignment, toe strength, and ankle strength especially. Do you have any tips? Please help!!!!!
Dear Katie, I have a teacher who makes at least one student cry after each class. She laughs at us when we do a step incorrectly. How do you deal with a teacher like that? I feel like she is helping me improve immensely, but she creates a hostile environment. Please help! Emma
That's a strict teacher , it's good it might seem harsh but that's why you see improvements the ballet world is tough you'll be laughed at and told worse things once you become professional.
I would find a new teacher. You don't want to be in therapy years from now trying to recover your self-esteem. If you look at Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir who just won Gold in ice dancing, their coaches are super nurturing and kind, yet they are the best in the world. If you are internally motivated you don't need a mean teacher to whip you into shape. It's just not worth the potential toll on your psychological health. It doesn't sound like she's just being strict but that she has personal issues that she's taking out on the children. ruclips.net/video/VQYFdxailzg/видео.html
what did you used to do on your free time to stay in such shape/get into really good shape ? what sort of diet did you follow and what exercises (besides class) did you do ?
Dear Katie, I have a request for a technique video: I am struggling a lot with soutenues on pointe. My feet are looking super weird and not pointed when going up. It would be awesome to hear some tips from you! I hope you're doing well :)
Do you have any tricks to strengthening when you're not in class? I only have about four classes a week and feel worried that I won't be able to be a professional of I don't start now. It's become hard to believe I can go pro when I'm seeing people who are already pro at not much older than I am
Uggh we must never dwell on hypotheticals, but imagine if Kathryn never had a thyroid issue and got to continue her career with NYCB... Kathryn morgan sounds like a household american ballerina name
Afew months ago i rolled my ankle, it popped and tore 2 ligaments too... and i was on a boot for a month and in still not abl to dance 😢 . I keep going for physiotherapy and it still didnt work 🤔 Any tips?
I'm not a dancer, but you're at the beginning of a long road, OngNiel... but you can get there! Don't give up on the regular physical therapy - it's going to take longer than a few months, but this is the most important time to keep it up.
OMG once I had a dance also reversed just before the actual show so everything to the left was to the right and everything to the right was to the left and I was so confused!!!🤣
Hey thank you for your videos!! if you can make a video about Cabriole , I searched all the youth and no one has made a video about it And exercises for feeling the feel of the cabriole
Hi, I love your channel, I am 15 yrs old and just starting ballet, I was wondering would it be possible to quickly learn pointe and possibly become a company dancer.
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If you have any of them, you should make a video of you showing all of your old tutus and costumes
Company stories please!
Definitely!
Definitely another company story please! Love the once upon a pointe chalk board how cute. I look forward to these videos so much 😍
Tore three ligaments doing an entirely different sport a few years ago, and the experience just flashed before my eyes, right down to the having "guns" after the first two weeks on crutches. I'm not a dancer, but it's very heartening to hear that you were able to end up a soloist despite having the injury so early in your career.
I love these Once Upon a Pointe stories! It's so fun to get a peek into the world of SAB and NYCB. Your perseverance is so inspiring and encouraging. Thank you!
It was good to see you back again and I think it would be interesting to hear company stories. Also I have sort of a Q and A question 2 actually one is have you experience Character dance while continuing your ballet training and how to deal with people who don't understand what being a dancer means to you?
Do you think you could do a video about corps de Ballet work? The hardest thing for me is dealing with the long stands in large ballets like Swan Lake or Les Sylphides. Do you have any tips for that? Loved this video!!
Company stories please! And also if you have any old tutus and costumes, I think that would be very fun to see.
I would love to hear more about when you were younger! I always love hearing about professional dancers past and who inspired them to become the dancers they are now💗
I actually find it really comforting that a pro shares having an “achilles heel” with me. I’m only 13.5, and my left kneecap already got dislocated twice. Besides my mulling over injuries, great video! These are very interesting! I’d personally love to hear about the company stories first, since it was asked.
I know this is random but I am in love with the color and finish of your new pointe shoes! It's such a silvery toned opaque pink and I cannot stop looking at them. IMO they're much more attractive than the salmon colored pointe shoes with a shiny finish. But great entertaining video as always!
Just got confirmation that my Kathryn Morgan Hall will be here on Monday!!! I can't wait. Thank you so so much!
I would love to see all of your old costumes and tutus!!
Oddly enough, my freshman year of school I had a severe sprain in my right ankle and I was out of ballet for 4 months and thought I was out for good. However my sophomore year I auditioned in January for the summer intensive with Joffery ballet, and I got in! It really goes to show how it may seem like 1 injury is the end but it may not be.
Loving these videos! I'm off injured at the moment with a back and an ankle injury and it's so hard, especially when everyone else is dancing and you're sat out :( But it's so nice to hear your stories and have a peek into the ballet world :)
I would like you to do the company stories please! These videos are so interesting and also very helpful!💕😊
i‘d love to hear company stories next! xx
Love these , so inspirational and uplifting . Hard work always pays off even after failure work harder till you succeed. It's easy to quit it's harder to fight .
I love these stories and I would love to hear company stories! I have a sprained ankle so I'll be on crutches for a few days 😑
Company stories please!! And if you could do a updated stage makeup routine that would be great. Thanks!!!!! Love your videos💕
Go way back and unlock the mystery of getting into a good school and getting into auditions and getting into a school like SAB.
Company stories!!! Also, can you do a video about foot types and how to work with/improve what you have???
Love these story time videos! I think more company stories next! 😊
Can you do a video on some of your favourite company memories please!!! Love you 💕💕💕
Yay! Love there #onceuponapointe videos Katie! Please do more soon!
I will!
I think it would be lovely if you could alternate your starting ballet videos and your company videos, but name then as two different series! Love you xx
Please do a once upon a pointe video on the first time you got your pointe shoes
I ruptured my right calf muscle landing a grand jete in 2012, and it still plays up to this day. I was in a cast for 7-weeks & the muscle wastage I suffered not using it has caused my calf to now look like a shelf! My students think it is so funny 😂 They call it my twingy leg.
Wow I can’t believe that this video came out today!! Yesterday I re-watched all the other Once Upon a Pointe videos and was wondering when this video would come out!! I love these videos!!
Please make a video on how to correct sickled feet. This is a huge problem for me
I can’t wait for more of these!! Been rewatching them all lately :)
later on in the company for sure!
Stories when you were little and how you started! :)
Can we request BOTH Baby Katie and company stories?? #OnceUponaPointe is the best!
Company stories next please!! dying to hear these!
I also sprained my right ankle this fall but luckily it healed really well and I've been fully back for a while. I'd be really interested in hearing what happened next!!
I love these story time videos, thanks for sharing them!! Please do company stories next!
Loved it!!! I wanna hear company stories next please!!
I love these story time videos! I know you mentioned that the adoption story was on hold because something happened, which is 110% understandable! Will that still be happening? You’re just a fantastic storyteller! Also, are you still doing vlogs on the other channel? 😊❤️
Company Stories please!!! Also, I have a question... I am 17 years old, and inmy junior year of highschool and i still train at a small local ballet studio and im trying to get into a major ballet school, do you think it is too late for me? Thank you! ❤️
ballet company stories!
Company stories please. I love your videos and channel!!!!
For girls night awhile back, we watched Center Stage. I know that it probably has very little truth in it. Have you ever watched it? What do people who have attended SAB think? What strikes you as the funniest/most annoying parts?
Do a video talking about your first year in the NYCB ✨
I would love to hear about your journey as a tinny dancer and how you came to be! I have a young dancer right now and love to hear how professionals went about growing and learning before making it big!
Company stories next please!! Love you Katie!!!
I would love to see how you started off at ballet, as if I remember you started at a older age? and I feel like it would help a lot of people that are in the same situation you were in and how to progress! xxxxx
Later on would be so great to hear from you!!!
I would like to see what it was like for you when you were 13, 14 years old because that is my age and I am interested where you went for summer and stuff like that! Love ya ❤️
Dominika Afanasenkov watch part 1 of this , she talks about her beginning ballet there at age 13
Kayla Flowers thank you 😊
I love to hear your stories! Thank you for sharing them:)
Oh my goodness! I had the same thing happen for one of my group routines my senior year of high school. A girl couldn't perform (I can't remember why), and I had to take her spot which did all of the steps in the opposite direction, as well as changing where I was on the stage (by a lot!). This was the Monday before the performance on Saturday, and we didn't have any practices in between. It was terrifying!
definitely stories of being in the company...thanks!
How does the company feel about you being so open about your time there? Thanks for the stories!
I’d love to hear about both!
Your videos are so inspiring! I would absolutely love to start ballet, but I'm already fifteen and any classes I try to get into have eight and nine year olds in them. I think I found a good academy and I'm going to start taking lessons this summer. Is there any chance that I could get into SAB in the future?
LOVE these videos!!
Company stories please
Love these videos as I do all your vids! I'd definitely love to hear more company stories and have a request- can you do a video explaining what petit allegro jumps can beat and how do to them? Maybe even exercises to help? We don't do a lot in my adult classes and those who know go for it, and I'd like to go for it too! (eventually haha)
Company story next!! ❤️❤️❤️
Company stories would be awesome!!!!
Company!
I love your channel! I just started one to share my dance journey too. Just finished a contract with The Met. Thank you for sharing your experiences. It is so helpful to fellow dancers who want to do the same someday
PS Company stories!
company stories!!
Little Katie stories! I think if you tell those first we would understand the company stories better or differently.
Baby Bambi Katy!!
Company stories!!!!!!
Can you do a video on how to tell when your pointe shoes are dead?
I'd love to hear about how you staretd ballet! : ) Looking forward to more vlogs. xx
Hi Kathryn, can you do a video about how to improve musicality in terms of dancing? It's something I really struggle with, even outside of dancing I just generally have no rhythm
I actually got the exact same injury on my left foot almost two months ago by doing brises. I had just been cast as Clara for my final nutcracker too. I took two weeks off, going to acupuncture and physical therapy almost daily. I was able to perform as first cast still but the injury is definitely still an issue unfortunately.
Oooh 😰 take good care
Company stories!!!💕
Company stories! Also could you do some more summer intensive videos I loved the ones that you've done❤️️❤️️
I would love to see and hear you go backwards in time for a bit! I would be delighted to hear your early stories again, and in a little more depth. Nothing too personal, but a glimpse of you and your family and what they thought about this thing over time. Like the first time “Uncle Henry” actually saw you dance! And little girlfriends you had that maybe you shared dance with. And perhaps when you became an adolescent ballerina. Ballet helped me so often, so often in my life. ..when little, whenever I had a bad dream (I was frightened of spiders). I dreamt of them sometimes. What worked after the folks settled me down was, I would imagine myself in the center of the stage, with big, soft golden curtains, and bright spot light. I would see myself in a short, soft, tutu standing in the center with a bright circle of light all around me. The spider could not step in to the light. And he would stay away and outside until I fell safely asleep. And that was just one of the ways ballet saved me... I’m sure it saves other small boys or girls! 😘❤️✨Thank you Katie.. you just make my day some times! Hope you and the girls and hubs are all well and fine. Marty.
Would love if you did stories on your time in the company!!!💓
kathryn please do more advanced ballet class videos please ❤
can you do how you started ballet when you were little? Loved this video!! Much love! I am so glad I watch your video! They are so informative and AMAZING!💖
I got into the Joffery Ballet at NYC Ballet, will you be teaching at all this year?
going on into the company... I'd love to hear what your career was like. Loveyou
I love these videos! Keep it up!
Would love to hear company stories!
I'm a part-time teacher and a conversation with my students about discipline and punishment yesterday prompted a couple of questions I'd love to have your answers to. I was wondering- how was disobedience or being unprepared to work or any stuff like that handled at SAB? I kind of can't imagine a whole bunch of teenagers never ever stepping out of line. Even if you're set on a goal at that age students probably aren't always perfectly behaved... I'd love a comment on what was expected of the students in general and what the consequences were for misbehaving... like not showing up to class, not doing your school work not checking out when you left, disrupting class, being cheeky... maybe if you did another Q&A you might be able to cover that
I am the last person in my friend group to get point shoes, and I am doing my exercises twice a day. I REALLY want my point shoes, and my teacher says that I need to work on alignment, toe strength, and ankle strength especially. Do you have any tips? Please help!!!!!
I never hear dancers mention acupuncture or getting sprains cupped. It's wild to undergo cupping from old sprains.
Dear Katie, I have a teacher who makes at least one student cry after each class. She laughs at us when we do a step incorrectly. How do you deal with a teacher like that? I feel like she is helping me improve immensely, but she creates a hostile environment. Please help!
Emma
That's a strict teacher , it's good it might seem harsh but that's why you see improvements the ballet world is tough you'll be laughed at and told worse things once you become professional.
I would find a new teacher. You don't want to be in therapy years from now trying to recover your self-esteem. If you look at Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir who just won Gold in ice dancing, their coaches are super nurturing and kind, yet they are the best in the world. If you are internally motivated you don't need a mean teacher to whip you into shape. It's just not worth the potential toll on your psychological health. It doesn't sound like she's just being strict but that she has personal issues that she's taking out on the children. ruclips.net/video/VQYFdxailzg/видео.html
@@kaylamarchbanks1836strict and a bully are two very different things
what did you used to do on your free time to stay in such shape/get into really good shape ? what sort of diet did you follow and what exercises (besides class) did you do ?
Dear Katie, I have a request for a technique video: I am struggling a lot with soutenues on pointe. My feet are looking super weird and not pointed when going up. It would be awesome to hear some tips from you!
I hope you're doing well :)
Do you have any tricks to strengthening when you're not in class? I only have about four classes a week and feel worried that I won't be able to be a professional of I don't start now. It's become hard to believe I can go pro when I'm seeing people who are already pro at not much older than I am
Uggh we must never dwell on hypotheticals, but imagine if Kathryn never had a thyroid issue and got to continue her career with NYCB... Kathryn morgan sounds like a household american ballerina name
How you started plz
Afew months ago i rolled my ankle, it popped and tore 2 ligaments too... and i was on a boot for a month and in still not abl to dance 😢 . I keep going for physiotherapy and it still didnt work 🤔 Any tips?
I'm not a dancer, but you're at the beginning of a long road, OngNiel... but you can get there! Don't give up on the regular physical therapy - it's going to take longer than a few months, but this is the most important time to keep it up.
@@BlackAcesBlackEights g
OMG company stories!
OMG once I had a dance also reversed just before the actual show so everything to the left was to the right and everything to the right was to the left and I was so confused!!!🤣
Company stories!
I love these videos!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks Victoria!
Hey thank you for your videos!! if you can make a video about Cabriole , I searched all the youth and no one has made a video about it
And exercises for feeling the feel of the cabriole
Lets hear more about your time at mobile ballet!!
Way back!!!
Hi, I love your channel, I am 15 yrs old and just starting ballet, I was wondering would it be possible to quickly learn pointe and possibly become a company dancer.
Hi Kathryn! Are more people accepted from the Winter term audition that happens in September, or being brought in from the summer program?