- Hello everyone!
Welcome back to the Miss Auti channel.
This is my best friend Corinne.
- Hi.
You guys, we're going to be teaching you ballet
for the complete beginner.
We're going to be breezing through
a whole bunch of things, friend.
- Yes.
It's gonna be good.
Ready, five, six, seven, and.
(laughs)
But first,
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- Yay.
- Felix, (speaking a foreign language)
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but seriously,
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(Auti blows kiss)
(Corinne claps)
We're going to be starting out
with the ballet feet and arm positions.
So, Coco,
if you could go to first position, please.
First position, your cute little heels are together here.
She's going to step out to a second position,
gorgeous.
Your arms come out to a nice, rounded position
and you want to make sure they're not behind you like this.
You're pulling them in so that your ribcage can go shoop.
Beautiful.
Take whichever foot you want to third position.
So in third,
your heel comes to the inside arch
of the opposite foot
and let's go ahead and wrap this right arm
into a third, beautiful.
Then from there,
we'll take our arm up to a fourth position,
and our foot out.
Good.
So, fourth position has a little bit of space right here.
What is this, like 12 inches?
- Yes.
12 inches, everyone. - [Corinne] It's a foot.
- I got a measuring tape. - [Corinne] One.
- One foot, one whole foot.
About 12 inches of space.
You want to make sure your toes are nice and turned out.
Then Corinne will go to a fifth position with her feet.
Take your arms to a fifth on O,
and we're holding here.
Gorgeous!
(high five clap)
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Back to your regularly scheduled programing.
All right, guys, so we are at barre now.
We're going to start in first position.
You're going to prepare your arms up to the barre,
beautiful.
We'll start with our demi and grande plie.
So she'll go demi plie,
and stretch, beautiful,
and then a four count grande plie,
we go four,
down three, push your heels down two,
and one.
Those are your demi and grande plies.
Movin' on quick into your tendus.
We'll take two tendus on your right foot side
and then two on the left.
So you brush your foot,
close back to first, good.
And brush,
close back to first, beautiful.
Left side, straight knees,
close first,
straight knees,
close first, gorgeous.
Just a couple cues, you guys.
Her chin is lifted, beautiful.
Her shoulders are pressed, her tummy's in,
her booty and her core are squeezed and lifted and engaged,
her legs are straight.
There's a lot of things to think about,
but we're doing good.
You guys, we're still at the barre, bring it over.
We're doing degages.
Degage means to disengage from the floor, darling.
So you're going to disengage with your right foot up,
and come back down.
And up,
and come back down.
Switch those feet.
Left, up and come back down,
and up, and come back down.
Corinne is making those as sharp as a tack.
Is that the saying?
Sharp as a Dorito.
The edges of a Dorito, yes?
Are dangerous, if they get caught in your throat,
we've all been there, okay?
Bring it back to your ballet class,
your dégagé is not this little noodle.
She's gonna do it again so sharp.
Ready, and, (snap)
and close, beautiful.
And up (snap) and close, left foot out,
and close
and stretch and close, gorgeous.
(laughs)
What was this?
(claps)
- Lemonade, that one?
- Lemonade?
- [Camera Man] We're filming a vlog.
(laughs)
- Okay, guys, we're moving on to our rond de jambe.
So, your rond de jambes
have to brush through a first position
to start the next one.
So, Corinne is starting in first.
Preparing to the barre, she tendus devant,
so, to the front.
That toe stays on the floor as it goes around,
and to derrière.
She brushes through first position,
tendu devant,
rond de jambe around, good.
And all the way through. You can try it full tempo,
front side, back, and again.
Front, good,
closing first position,
arm pump bras bas,
and hold.
Yeah.
Three strikes and you're out baby.
Just kidding, you won't be out in this class.
We're doing frappes,
your frappé means to strike, okay.
What your gonna do is prepare in first,
and Corrine will lift up her heel,
to touch the opposite foot's ankle.
Or the opposite leg's ankle, yes.
Now, to strike,
she's gonna hit the pad of her foot on the floor,
and brush straight.
Come back to a bent flex,
strike the side,
out, good.
And this one,
if you noticed,
her heel is now in the back of that foot,
because we're gonna go derriere.
So she strikes back again,
and flex,
and side switch to the front.
Good. Lets try it again you guys,
prepare in the first position,
arms on bras,
we'll prep up,
and
up to your flex,
strike front,
flex side,
to the back,
strike,
and side
good, closing first position,
and finito.
Okay, so we are gonna do our developpe.
Your developpe means to develop,
and it goes through four different positions.
You can do these to the front, to the side, to the back,
ecarte,
whats the other one?
- [Corinne] Efface.
- Efface, Croise, all the A's.
Okay, but for today,
oh my god that is a terrible joke.
Today we're just gonna be facing,
the outside of the room,
so that you guys can see all the positions.
So Corinne is gonna start in fifth position,
which is where,
your heel was touching the supporting legs toe,
okay?
I almost forgot the word for toe.
You're gonna come to a coupe devant.
So coupe is here, your toe is touching the front
of the ankle of the supporting leg.
Keeping your knee nice and turned out here.
She's gonna zip this up to a retire
and then its gonna extend out,
keeping your knee lengthened to an attitude devant.
And then its gonna stretch,
into the final developpe.
Lets rewind it back to an attitude,
back to a retire,
pull it down to a coupe,
close fifth position.
Lets try that again a little faster.
Five, six , seven, and,
coupe,
retire,
attitude,
extend,
attitude,
retire,
coupe
and finish.
So good!
(laughs)
Alright guys go ahead and face to the side of the bar again.
In a nice first position,
heels are kissing,
take your outside arm to your hip,
the other hand to the bar.
We're gonna do our grand battements.
Your grand battements are a progression,
from the tendu and the degage,
but they're gonna lift even higher.
Lets aim for like, a 45 to 90 degree angle,
maybe like a 60, yes?
Here we go,
five, six, seven,
brush to the front,
closed first,
side out,
closed first, beautiful.
And brush back,
close first,
and side,
and close to first, that was lovely.
If you notice,
Corinne is brushing through her entire foot,
then its lifting with a sharp power,
but it floats down like a little feather.
Let's try it one last time.
Five, six, seven,
lift up,
brush and close,
side out and close, good,
lift your chest here friends,
and side and close,
arms off, head away.
You're stunning!
We have moved on to center,
we're gonna start with our tombe pas de bourree.
This is a crucial movement that's in a lot of combinations.
It's kind of a transition step,
wouldn't you say? - Mhm.
- Yes (laughs).
We go from a first position,
you're gonna step on which ever foot you like,
Corinne and I are gonna do our right foot.
So you plie up,
roll through your arches,
you're gonna step to the back,
to the side, close first.
In a nice demi plie.
Rewind.
Ready five, six, seven,
and plie releve,
and back, side first.
Its a balance baby moment, ready?
- Yes.
- From first position,
you're doing our rocking step.
So that right foot's gonna lift up,
we're gonna step onto it.
And out,
plie, rise up, lower down, developpe,
out, rise up, lower down, keep going,
ba-dump, and your knee,
straighten your knee.
Good, sis is gonna keep going.
So when you step up,
you wanna make sure you're pushing up onto a high releve.
That front leg straightens, good,
and then she developpes after,
beautiful,
right then straight,
and out,
Gorgeous!
And closing in a nice first position
and plie.
Triplets baby (laughs).
We're doing our down, up, up.
This is progression for eventually your waltz.
But Corinne,
is gonna show us how to get there.
You're gonna put your cute little hands,
on top of your shoulders,
that way it reminds you to keep an open chest.
Chin up, shoulders down.
Ready, six, seven,
and we step,
brush,
one, two, three, plie brush,
let's back it up baby.
(feet shuffle)
- (laughs) Help, wave to the people.
Six, seven, and step brush,
rise, rise, rise, plie brush,
up, up, up, plie, brush,
Yes!
Let's see what you just did.
Up,out
plie back,
up,
aww I miss dancing with you,
so fun!
- Oh so pretty.
- (laughs) We are stalling.
Pirouettes,
five, six, seven,
and arm, tendu,
plie,
pirouette and lunge.
Starting out in nice first position,
arms on bras your arms come to fifth en avant.
Arms to second,
tendu to the side as well.
That rond de jambe, remember your toe stays on the floor,
goes to a fourth position, plie.
Both heels are down, your arms are wrapped in third.
When you do press up,
your arms are gonna come to another fifth en avant,
you're gonna turn over your back legs direction,
land lunge, beautiful.
Can you go to back to a retire for me?
- Mhm.
- From this pirouette,
this leg shoots back into your lunge,
and your arms open up to an arabesque.
Shoulders are pressed,
her chins lifted,
and her eye line is over that front fingertip.
Sautes baby.
Saute means to jump.
You can go literally in any position,
but we're gonna do first and second today.
So Corinne has her glued feet.
Her glued heels together,
her arms on bras,
she's gonna take a plie and soute.
Good!
Pretty dang straight forward.
When you do jump,
you wanna make sure you zip you inner thighs together.
And your legs are stick straight.
Lets try two,
five, six, seven, eight,
jump one jump two, beautiful.
Open up to a second position,
same thing here you guys,
but don't stick that booty out, yes?
Keep your booty underneath yourself.
Five, six, two jumps here we go,
and one,
and two,
gorgeous!
Darling!
Stunning!
You made it to your almost last thing,
its your chassshosheshah,
also known, I don't why I'm English today.
Its your chasse step saut de chat you guys.
Your saut de chatis is your jump of the cat,
and its your big gorgeous leap.
Let's just try it girlfriend.
- Yeah.
- So she's starting in a fifth,
we are ouvert meaning,
our upstage, foot
is crossed over our downstage foot.
So there's an open space,
right here.
Yeah, she's in tendu devant.
Opposite arm forward as leg,
so right leg is forward,
left arm's gonna go forward.
Stop after the chasse for me,
so she goes in gallop,
step together.
She's gonna step forward with her left foot,
arms come to a fifth en avant,
beautiful.
And then as she leaps,
it is a developpe,
so you bend your leg to straight,
her right arm is gonna come forward,
and she's gonna have this big span gorgeous leap.
(laughs) Her face was like no thank you.
- That was it.
- (laughs) That was it. That was my leap.
Here we go tendu devant, I'm gonna get out of your way.
This is not about me!
Here we go five, six, seven,
and chasse, step seven, shot up,
so pretty!
And as swift as you can be.
(laughs)
You guys the very last one that you do is your reverence.
Your reverence, so come on out.
We'll just do a really simple one.
Arms on bras,
take a nice tendu to the side,
curtsy in B plus,
tendu over to the other side and a curtsy.
And always do a little B plus curtsy to your students,
or your teacher.
And you clap.
(claps) - Thank you teacher!
- Thank you guys so much for watching,
and a big thank you to my BFF Corinne,
for coming on and doing all of our demos.
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- Yes.
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And she's just getting started on the page right?
- Yes! - Yeah.
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- Okay, (laughs)
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That's your words of wisdom.
- Yes.
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