- I almost said good morning.
It's morning where I am.
But welcome back to the Miss Auti Channel.
If you're new, welcome.
If you're not new,
(whispers) I love you.
If you're new, I also do love you too.
Today, we are doing easy ballet exercises.
We're gonna do plies, tendus,
degages, rond de jambes, chaines, piques,
sautes, chasses, leaps, and probably more,
but my brain cannot remember.
You guys, these exercises are good for beginners.
They are also good for those who are experienced
and just wanna go back to the fundamentals.
If you have a chair or a barre
or a friend that will be able to help you stand up,
grab them, grab some space,
and let's do some (snaps) ballet.
(laughs)
Okay, so the first thing we're gonna do is our plies,
our demi and our grand.
Your demi is your half plie
and your grand plie is your big one.
So we'll have it start in a nice first position.
Our arm will go to the side.
We'll take demi plie,
arm comes down.
Demi plie,
arm goes side.
grand plie,
six,
up, seven,
eight, breathe, up to a forward bend,
two, come up, three,
four,
rise up, five,
six,
tendu second position.
Repeat, demi,
arm down,
your heels stay on the floor,
even in your grand plie,
and seven, eight, into the barre,
one,
two,
up, three,
four,
eleve,
and lower,
tendu,
first, arms off.
Hmm.
(laughs)
I'm gonna go on this side.
Hello.
We are doing our tendus and our degages.
So starting in a nice first position,
your hands are lightly at the barre.
You're gonna tendu devant, one,
close first, a la seconde,
close first, derriere,
close first,
degage off the floor,
other foot tendu,
close first,
side one,
close first,
derrier one,
close first, degage,
degage.
Again,
one,
close, you brush your whole foot on the floor.
Make sure it's behind you.
These lift off the floor.
Other side, one and two,
three and four, light grip.
(humming)
And finish.
Okay, your rond de jambes are your little half circles,
Now pro tip really fast,
your legs need to stay stick straight the whole time
and it goes (snaps) front, side, back, first.
Starting again in a first position.
Light grip at the barre,
we tendu one,
glide it along the floor,
keeping your legs straight, close, first, tendu.
Rond de jambe, close first.
We're gonna break
it
down.
First rond de jambe,
rond de jambe,
other foot and brush,
side,
back,
first.
Keep your hips square to the front.
Now break it down,
front,
side,
back,
first,
rond de jambe,
close first, and finish.
(laughs)
Welcome.
We're doing chaines and piques across the floor.
Chaine is your chain turns
and your pique means to prick,
just like Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on a spindle.
Spindle, Brayden?
Little pokey guy?
We don't know.
Let us know in the comments
if you know what Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on.
(clears throat)
Tendu devant, arms in a third position.
Your chaine is your tight, tight turn
and your arms open to the front,
close to the back.
So we open,
close, open,
close.
Your piques,
still spot with your eyeballs,
start with a nice tendu,
you're gonna plie.
You're gonna step onto the foot that's extended
and lift the other guy up into a passe.
Your arms comes to,
comes, your arms comes,
your arm comes to fifth en avant,
right in front of your chest.
Six, seven,
and pique,
pique,
pique.
Now, my foot got stuck to the floor.
We're gonna do chaine, pique, chaine, pique.
You have to know when you're bending
and straightening your knees.
You might feel a little weird at first,
but you'll get it after you practice a couple times.
Six, seven,
and chaine,
plie,
pique,
chaine,
plie,
pique.
Great job, everyone.
Don't do the end part.
(laughs)
We're doing our sautes.
Our saute means to jump.
(pants)
Sautes can be in almost any position,
but we're gonna do first and second.
So your arms are en bas,
the are below you.
There's a nice lift in your elbows.
You wanna make sure your arms
are never behind you, like this,
unless you're choreographed to do so.
Bring everything in,
shoulders down, chest lifted and open, okay?
Your sautes start at a nice first position.
You plie,
you're gonna jump straight up like a little jumping bean
with the straightest knees that you got
and you're gonna land in another plie.
So it's (snaps) plie, jump, plie.
Six, seven,
and plie, jump, plie.
Six, seven,
and plie, jump, plie.
Good.
Now, second position,
it's about hip-width apart, I would say.
If you're a little bit taller,
you can separate your feet more.
If you're more on the petite side,
bring your heels closer together.
Same thing here, but arms in second.
Plie, knees go over your toes.
Make sure they don't go in front.
You go plie,
jump, plie,
jump, plie.
Now, we're gonna go (snaps) two jumps in first,
two in second, two in first,
two in second, close first.
(sighs) Ready for this cardio, Bray?
- [Brayden] Mm-hmm.
- I was talkin' to myself. (laughs)
Here we go, six, seven, and jump,
jump, jump, jump,
first,
second,
and finish.
(sighs)
Last thing, chickadees,
we're doing chasse step leap.
For those of you who are more advanced,
we're not gonna do
tombe pas de bourree glissade saut du chat.
If you're like, "What did you just say?",
learn what I'm about to teach you
and it'll be fine, okay?
A chasse is just your little gallop.
It means to chase.
So point your toe out in the front.
Straighten those knees, pull everything up.
You do a step-together.
Step-together.
In the air, my toes point,
(swooshes) and then come together.
Now, the same foot is in front at the end
that started in the front.
So, also that was more complicated way of saying
don't change feet.
Six, seven, and step, together.
Now, from there, you're gonna take one step,
and you're gonna jump onto this back foot.
Your arms are gonna come to an L.
The L is also your arabesque
and it's the opposite arm forward as leg forward.
So if I have my right leg coming forward for the leap,
I'm gonna have my left arm forward
for the actual jump. (jumps)
Let's bring it back.
So it's a three parter,
a chaise, a step, and a leap.
We'll go in slow motion again.
Seven,
and step, together,
step,
leap.
(laughs)
That was a little baby version.
Now, graduate your arms from your hips
to a fifth en allonge and let's try it.
Six, seven,
and chasse,
step, leap.
Good.
Get it from a low position to a higher leap eventually.
That was not my highest leap,
but that's just a small version of it
that you can learn...
I just lost my train of thought.
(laughs) So that you can learn the progression,
and eventually will get you to a full ballet prep
with all the fancy footwork and gorgeous leaps.
(Laughs) Oh my God!
You guys, you're like Milo.
You have no personal space.
Also, I realize I'm becoming a total mom,
where I only talk about my children.
But I just love him so much
and everything reminds me of him, so.
(sighs)
Anyways, he's at home,
chewin' on a bone, probably.
Hopefully not the electronics.
Sorry to my boyfriend.
Milo ate his PS4 charger.
No one was harmed,
except for probably my boyfriend's heart.
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Just enjoy your day.
Happy dancing and we'll see you next week.
(blows kiss)
Or later this week.
Depends. (laughs)
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