- You guys, I'm wearing the same outfit.
Why you ask?
- [Bray] Why?
- Because this is part two of the same video
and we're still here. (laughs)
Just filming it a couple of minutes later.
So, buckle up cowboys.
Okay, so we really are here for the intermediate series
part two, we're back at the barre, you've done so many
things at the barres now, you guys are professional
ballet dancers, so we're gonna keep moving on, alright?
We have our feet in first position,
we're gonna learn our frappes.
Our frappe lifts to a flexed foot,
a flexed foot she said?
A flexed foot in ballet, okay so we're gonna start here.
- Hi.
- Di you wanna be in this video also?
- Mm hmm. - Okay.
- I'm back baby.
- Okay, so like I said,
now Matt's here so you can watch him too.
- Hello, I'm still here.
- Oh my god.
So we'll go to a flex foot in the front.
The reason it's flexed is because it's going to strike
out on the ball of your foot.
So we lift with the flexed and we strike the ball
or the pad of our foot first and then it extends
to a full degage.
And flex, extend, flex, extend, flex.
I always tell my kiddos, it's kind of like you have
a piece of gum on the bottom of your shoe
and you're just trying to get it off.
Ba-dum, ba-dum, and frappe means to strike.
Which totally makes sense.
You can do frappes to the front, to the side, to the back,
to the front.
(laughing)
- Oh sorry. - For once, I was not serious.
- I was ready.
- Okay face the barre for me,
so Matty will lift to a flex left foot front,
he's gonna strike to the front, oh! (laughs)
- 90% leg.
- Imagine he breaks his toe on the very first practice.
So he flexes and he strikes to the front,
come back to the flexed foot, also going to the side,
now he goes flex in the back, he strikes derriere,
and close flex, to the side, out and close flex.
Beautiful, so you guys depending on which foot's stronger,
your frappes are gonna feel kind of weird on the weaker foot
so for me, my right foot is stronger and my motor skills
are more developed on the right side,
my left foot, it still takes a little, a little moment
to get down there to figure out what the heck I'm trying
to get it to do.
So again, don't get discouraged, just keep focusing
on the strike, you don't want to have any space,
that's not a frappe, at least not for today, yeah.
So we hit the floor, flex, hit the floor, flex,
you can hear it.
(foot thumping)
Okay, his is louder, whatever.
- I think I actually broke something.
(Auti laughs) Ow.
- Alright, so if you guys remember your rond de jambes,
your round of the leg, those ones stayed on the floor,
which is called a terre but today we're going to take it
en l'air which means in the air.
The French like to rhyme.
- How we do that?
- So, these are your rond de jambes on the floor,
we go all the way around, we come through a first,
tendu, rond de jambes,
your en l'airs are gonna lift, and it's gonna go around
with a space from your foot to the floor,
back to a first position, tendu, rond de jambes en l'air,
now your hips and your deep alter rotators are gonna be
screaming at you right now.
- Yeah they are. (screaming)
- So the way you combat that, is lifting through your torso
again, making sure there's no curve in your spine,
pull your lower abs in, hands on your hips to make sure
they're staying nice and level.
When you tendu and your leg lifts, you need to pull up
even more, see how I just grew like and inch or two?
Same thing here, be careful not to hike your hip up.
Keep it nice and square, and extend to the back,
lift your chest, lift your chest, first down,
on more time, rond de jambes, lift, lift, lift, lift,
and first, same rule as a lot other things you guys,
keep it low and technically sound, then when you're strong
enough there, then lift it to a higher level, okay?
That's the best way to train.
Okay so we went over our arabesque in the last video
for part one, today we're gonna show you, how to do
your attitude, so an attitude is just a bend in, arabesque.
So, we'll go from a first again, you tendu derriere,
lift up to a little baby arabesque.
I'll turn so you guys can see, Matty you can stay towards
the barre. - You got it.
- And they can see from the back.
You bend your knee in, and that's your attitude, okay?
Eventually it'll get higher but the key part of your
attitude is to have your knee above your foot.
So what does that mean Miss Auti?
Well, thank you for asking.
Your knee is above your foot, as apposed to this.
Ew! (laughs) It's not cute right Bray?
- [Bray] Mm. - Even Bray knows.
Knee above your foot.
Okay so Matty go ahead and show, beautiful,
our hip is dropped and it's square to the front,
our knee is above our foot, and our evertors are working
to lift our pinky toe up. - Yeah they are.
- That's beautiful Matty. - Thank you.
- And then eventually, we'll lift, lift, lift,
we'll have a higher attitude right here,
again, keeping your knee above and we'll lift our arm.
Alright my friends, we have not done this before
but it is our adage in the center.
And I... - Hello.
- Matt needs attention. (laughs)
I actually really love adage but it does take a lot of
breath, the last thing you wanna do in an adagio is to just,
hold your breath, because guess what friend,
you're gonna pass out. Okay. - It's not gonna be fun.
- So we're gonna start in a position called croise.
It's your fifth position,
I'm facing straight forward right now,
I'm gonna shift to the diagonal of my back foot.
That is croise, our arms are gonna extend,
we're gonna go port de bra forward,
one, two, keeping your legs straight,
lift, three, arms up,
we do a baby cambre back,
ba-dum, shift to square forward, arms open,
our developpes guys, are coming back,
coupe, passe, arms open to second,
attitude, extend, passe,
to the side, extend, passe,
shift on the ball of your foot to the other diagonal,
lift this passe leg to an attitude,
extend to an arabesque, tendu,
whoa, you're done on that side.
We're gonna show you the left side for this,
because it's a little more complicated.
And open, start with a forward bend, one, two,
flat back, three, four, head opens to the outside,
shift, developpe, coupe, posse,
attitude, extend, passe,
and extend, passe, shift to the other diagonal,
attitude, arm is up,
straight arabesque, hold, tendu, close fifth.
And die. (laughs)
Oh my god, that is your adagio,
ladies and gentlemen. - My sweet spine.
- Friends, as the combos get more complicated
the vocabulary might seem a little intimidating
but the best thing to do,
actually the best thing to do would be to a,
just to get ballet vocabulary book,
I'll link it in the video description.
- Very helpful. - I have a great book,
just so you can review.
A lot of times you get into class and the teachers like,
and glissade, jete, pas de bourree, changement,
entrechat, and you're like, what is happening?
But you know the movement, you just don't know the words
and that can kind of stop you from progressing.
So, do your homework at home, be a little vocab nerd,
and study all the words that when you get into class
it doesn't stop you from advancing, okay?
That being said, this combo sounds kind of complicated
but you know the movements from these vlogs.
So, we'll start in a beautiful first,
and we're gonna start with your waltzes.
We go, waltz, and waltz, into your balances again,
bum, ba-dum, a tombe, pas de bourree fourth,
your pirouette, land lunge,
now a new part is a pique arabesque.
It's a fancy way of saying, step up on your releve,
into your arabesque, hold.
Yeah, that's the combo.
So altogether it's waltz and a waltz,
balance, balance, tombe, pas de bourree, pirouette,
land lunge, pique arabesque.
Now can you see what I mean if someone just said that to you
it would be super overwhelming?
But you know the movements, so do you homework so class
is a little bit smoother for you.
We'll show it again, let's go like uptempo this time.
- Cool.
- Six, seven, and waltz, waltz, balance, one, two,
tombe, pas de bou fourth, pirouette,
land lunge, and pique arabesque.
That's it and then try on your left side.
We're learning a new jump.
- Oh yeah, get excited. - Oh yeah.
- It's is called and entrechat quatre,
an entre-sha-what?
And entrechat quatre, okay?
These start from your fifth position.
Please, please, please, if you have not done these before,
try them at the barre.
Rule of thumb, any time you learn a new jump,
try it with some sort of support before you throw
yourself into the center.
Just so that your body gets the mechanics of it,
and then you'll be safe, okay?
So come on over to the barre. - Join us, won't you?
- Join us over here.
You guys, your entrechat quatre, we're gonna start
without jumping first.
You plie sus-sous, what's gonna happen in the air,
is your front foot is gonna be in the back,
and then it's gonna go back to the front, plie.
It looks really scary at first, but have faith,
we can teach you.
Sus-sous, beat back, close front.
Six, seven, and sus-sous, beat back, close front.
Last time, six, seven and sus-sous, beat back, close front.
Okay, now do you wanna see the jump?
Yes! (cheering)
We're here, six, seven, eight,
plie, beat back front.
You're like, what even happened woman? (laughs)
It's such a quick jump, and a subtle movement
but since Braydon is super fancy, fancy pants,
we're gonna slow it done for you in the center
with Matt lifting me, so that you can actually see
what the heck happening but one more time,
let's try at the barre. - Blink and you'll miss it.
- Here we go, six, seven, and plie, feet back front.
Let's show them in the center. - Cool.
- [Auti] I'm in a plie when I go up in the air,
I'm gonna squeeze my feet together,
I'm gonna be in the back, and I'm gonna close in the front.
Luckily Matt can lift me up so you guys can see what is
happening with my feet.
Ready, six, seven, eight, plie, feet back, close front.
Let's try it one more time.
Six, seven, eight, plie, feet back, close front.
Yeah. - Yeah.
- Okay friends so you guys actually already know
the movements that we're gonna do, it's just your arabesque
and your passe.
So your arabesque looks like this,
and your passe looks like this.
Your arabesque looks like this,
and your passe looks like this. (laughs)
Okay but just combining it with the word saute
and saute means... - To jump.
- To jump, so an arabesque saute is a jumping arabesque
and a passe saute is a jumping passe.
So we're just gonna, smoosh those babies together,
and do it.
So, let's go from a first position.
You're gonna step jump, step jump,
that arabesque foot is gonna come in the front,
now guess what my back foot's ready to be lifted in a passe.
Let's bring it back.
These are hard to demonstrate in slow motion.
- It's hard to do this, we can everything.
- I feel like, very heavy.
Okay, so we go, step, jump, step in front,
lift your back leg up,
step jump, step in front, lift your back leg up.
Jump, and jump.
- I can't do that slow you guys.
- Now, I know.
Your arms for this are simple, arabesque, fifth en avant.
Arabesque, fifth en avant, una mas,
Arabesque, fifth en avant, okay?
Now, you're gonna combine that, they're like,
woman, we're already tired.
We're gonna combine that with our tombe, pas de bourree,
glissade, saut de chat, your big fancy leap, okay?
I'm just gonna show you what it looks like first,
and then we'll break it down.
- Quick rosin situation.
- Fun fact, this is rosin,
rosin, it's a powder basically but it comes in these
like crystal chunks, you step on it, and you squish them
under your shoes, and they become a powder,
and they make your shoes stick,
not terribly but if your feet are slipping around
you put your little flat shoes or your point shoes
in rosin-- - Or socks.
- And you have more grip.
- Rosin. - Ballet facts.
Alright so we're here, six, seven, and lift,
lift, tombe, pas de bourree, glissade, up.
Let's try that, yeah?
Break it down.
Alright, broken down you have step arabesque, jump.
Step in the front, lift your back leg up passe.
My back leg is now gonna step tombe,
back side front, a glissade, and your big leap.
Okay, rewind that a couple times
so you have all the little intricacies,
we'll show you one more time full out.
- Here we go.
- Six, seven, and.
(laughing)
And out the door. - And we're done.
- We'll see you guys later, thanks for watching.
- [Matt] See ya, it's been fun.
- Oh my gosh, we almost fell down the stairs.
Good job everyone.
- Nice work.
(laughing)
- But seriously, be so proud of yourself for getting
through the beginner series,
and now the intermediate series.
So keep your eyeballs peeled,
you know what comes next, after intermediate.
Das advanced. (laughs) - Das advanced.
- I'm really excited to be dancing with you guys
and with my friends. - Me too.
- Remember we have a new dance vlog every single Wednesday
and a new choreography video the last Friday of each month.
So thank you so much for being here with us,
we love you guys and we'll see you next week!
- Goodbye!
- How did I know he was gonna do that,
because I was gonna do the same thing.
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