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  • OH MY GOD! It takes DECADES to make that work! LOVE IT!

  • you shouldn't care about what people say, im a dancer and i admire you so much! you both are amazing :)

  • Wow....the comments were extreamly "interesting" the world of ballet seems a harsh place. I was taking an adult beginners class just for fun and that's exactly what it was fun! These two seem to be having fun and are in my not professionally trained eyes very good! I wish I had taken up ballet at 4 and could have been as good as her at her age. Dancingjenna are you still dancing? Smile, enjoy and don't listen to the haters or bullies, they're not worth your time. :0)

  • heya!!! ok first of i'm no ballet dancer or dancer in general, but i love the nutcracker ballet. And i think that your dance was brilliant!!! and you both looked like you had fun. the lifts were beautiful and well all of it was. i was just looking for the song, and well all the different dances came up and i found this via other video and its great =] glad i watched this video =]

  • Excellent. I found this after watching Bejart ballets version. Your lifts were beautifully executed.

  • very good job!!!!!!

  • well i personally think she did amazing,

    and he was pretty amazing too.

    im a ballerina, and im not fucking toothpick thin either. Ha, so fuck off assholes and stop talking shit to a prettty great dancer.

    but anyways. i think you did amazing, those attitude turns were so pretty! <3

    i want to dance with someone to this so badly! its so beautiful haha and sometimes brings tears to my eyes. anyways you guys are great!

  • heey u 2 are great!! i like it :)

  • your dancing is pretty ^^

  • To: dancing jenna19

    I think you have met your objective of "get(ting) some feedback". Probably more than you wanted, actually. "Thanks for sharing," but I believe the time has come for you to gracefully back out and remove this video from youtube. Granted, you have the right of free speech (and free video posting), but unless you want more pointless controvery between the "anyone at all can try to dance" faction and the "don't even try unless you're thin and pretty" camp, bury it.

  • I hope that you feel ashamed for the things you have said and in the

    future will rethink your every move. If this paragraph here be a glimpse of who you are, I

    think you ought to head back to the drawing board . The one quality that people will

    forever admire in another is kindness, not hatred, not vulgarity, not rudeness, not how

    outgoing you are, not bluntness, no the one timeless trait most desirable in another is kindness.

  • Do you

    remember how it made you feel? Remember that feeling, and ask yourself why on earth

    you would choose to inflict this on another person, who you dont even know. This girl

    did not once make fun of you, yes to put a video of yourself on you tube puts yourself in a

    vulnerable situation, but no matter who you are professional ballerina or not, you have

    absolutely no right to bring down another human being for being brave enough to try

    something different.

  • I do not know who you think you are, but as a human

    being you are not respecting on a whole life as a general statement. That is pretty bad,

    and I hope you are in fact still young and have time to recuperate from your embarrassing

    mishaps such as this, before life passes you by. Remember the time when you were young

    and everyone laughed at you, when your self esteem was so low and people kept trying to

    put you down, remember when you cried because you thought no one liked you,?

  • Dear Mr. Jamesthobaker

    I do not know who you are, so i will try very hard not to pass too harsh a

    judgement on your character, but i find your personal critique upon this dancer to be quite

    offensive, along with unintelligent, and in the end embarrassingfor you. You are quite

    lucky you are able to hide behind your computer screen and make judgements upon other

    people without actually showing your face, very brave of you, a true statement of your

    obviously kind hearted character.

  • She is a nice dancer, definitely NOT fat ( : i think so long as she is enjoying it, what is the problem? She is enjoyable to watch ( sorry for bad english ) and that is good, i like it ( :

  • Listen, morons. I have to put up with fat women taking class at the studio where I study ballet, and I find it "udderly" revolting. If the studio weren't so desperate for income (or afraid of discrimination lawsuits), the instructors would be more selective as to whom they admit. To see a fat slob post a ballet video on youtube makes me want to vomit.

    As I noted in my earlier post, there are other forms of athletic activity that medium-to-heavy people can engage in, other than ballet.

  • wow all you guys are such fucktards. do you even value clean technique? hello, thats clean technique. whatever cookie cutter definition of a ballerina youre thinking of is long gone. and i guarantee you all e-assholes would love to dance half as good as this chick. k, bye.

  • "Normally" shaped girls should not do ballet. There are plenty of other sports available to them, e.g., field hockey. Just like "normally" shaped guys shouldn't do sumo wrestling. Sorry ladies, but if you're not toothpick-thin, you simply do not belong on stage in a tutu.

  • wow, i can´t believe how offensive people can get in here, this is not a runway honey or a model kind of thing!

    As a dancer, a trained one, a real one, with a real carreer on the field, owner a of a major dance company in Mexico and 3 studios at age 25, I studied in Mexico, USA, France and London

  • I learned in the good way that art is more than bodies, specially ballet, and unlike you (for what I can see thanks to your language) I had amazing parents that gave me a great deal of integrity for me and all that surround me, and also provided me with the best education I could get; the rest was my job. I encorage you to review why you are so poorly educated and change that, it will benefit you for your whole life. And as we say in Mexico: Vive y deja vivir!

  • Wow, mysoginist AND racist.

  • I'm the girl dancing in this video. You're all right in many ways. This video is messy and Im not toothpick thin. I'd also like to point out the fact that this video is almost 3 yrs old. We put this up simply to get some feedback for choreography. This was done for an amateur ballet company and for me, ballet was a passion. It was not something i pursued as I knew I was not the typical ballerina in both shape and technique. All I ask is that critics check out our actual performance.

  • I'm glad you replied here but you have no need to justify yourself to these jerks. I hope you are still enjoying dancing in some form!

  • It's very nice. That being said, the only thing I think would make it better is if you took your time to do movements. Think of almost being late. Like in the beginning, when you bow to your partner, delay the movement- it makes it look more royal? regal? along those lines for royalty. and right after that, with your develope. do each step with a purpose-it makes it more powerful.

  • she does not have a dancers body. I am NOT saying she is fat, just she doesn't look like the typical dancer.

  • i thought it was lovely.. to the people who are saying shes "overweight" or "fat", go find something better to do. when i look at her i see developing muscle, NOT fat, which is more than any of the anorexic ballerinas can say. what makes you guys forget that this is just a practice, not the final performance? its obviously a rehearsal. i thought it was great.

  • I do not know this dancer. She is not "fat." Generally, this is what women look like; they have breasts and hips. This young woman displays these features typical of the female of the species.

    Why not Youtube the Paris Opera dancers? Not to imply or suggest a comparison, but the PO dancers all look like humans and are the finest dancers and artists on the planet.

  • Lovely pas - I thought you were both great. Not all of the choreography is (what I would recognise as) traditional - did you work it out for yourselves or did someone make it for you? It works really well for you. Seriously, ignore the bitchy comments on here - they're from the kind of people who give dancers a seriously bad, uptight, up-their-own-arse, image problem. The soul of dance gets sucked out by these robots. Keep doing what you're doing, for the right reason - the love of it.

  • she needs more extension to make it look better im not saying it's not good, it's just that it could be better

  • Oh and also, I personally think this janitor guy, if he really is a professional dancer, should not be one. Dancers who take it as a profession do so because they love to dance and they can appreciate the heart that EACH dancer puts into their work. Petty remarks and a competitive attitude display low self-esteem. Nobody really cares if you are better than the rest of us, at least we dance because we enjoy it, not because we want to be the top dog and rub it in people's faces.

  • how old were you when you did this?

    you arent fat by any means. male dancers should know how to lift any dancer, as this one does, and female dancers should know how to be partnered and jump for their cavalier, as you do.

    I do think turnout and flexibility need work but there's a very good technical aspect to the pas.

  • Nicely done. it could use a tiny bit more work but other than that I thought that you two work very well together. She's not fat all. You must be crazy just to even think that. Nicely done.

  • What. The. Hell.

    Where are you getting this idea that she's fat.

    Even if she's not a stick, she makes up for it with really nice dancing.

    I thought it was beautiful, even if it could use some polishing up.

    Furthermore, I thought that they worked very nice together.

  • That was really awesome.

  • good control and head positioning i enjoyed watching

  • wow i cant believe how mean some people can be!!! i thought it was pretty nice!

  • Wow, you ALL need to get a life. Do you think me or anyone else in this world cares about what YOU think we should improve on or how well we look in a STUDIO REHEARSAL?..not at all. But I encourage all of you, know-it-all pre-teen divas that will not ever have a professional dance career, to post some of your own dance videos, I promise the entire world wont laugh at your pathetic attempts at dance. come on now...video responses

  • Pretty. And for all of you saying she's fat, shes not and I would like to see you do that!

  • Sorry hunny..shes not the right size for the boy..period. It looks painful and I hope that boy has med insurance b/c hes going to need it if he keeps on partnering with her.

  • The girl is too fat to dancer, and too tall for that boy. What's that? The Planet of Apes??

  • Dont you think some of you are being super rude? She may not be "skinny" but she sure isnt fat. I thought that it was an ok dance, but it does need some work.

  • Where to start...Weight is an obvious issue, but so is technique. It wouldn't be so bad if she knew how work with her body. I see turned in legs, half pointed feet, and bent knees...

    Hate to burst a dream but I would suggest college over a future dance career

  • loose some wait hun

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  • brave young man ...did you hear him go "oouf!" one time when he was catching that flying cement mixer?

  • She is not fat, by any means. There is a word, though that used to be used. I'm not sure if it is used anymore, though. It's called HEALTHY. And that's what she is. Have you ever heard of it?

  • maybe the girl should work her armes , sometimes they look some odds. but beautyful pas de deux though

  • She is a bit bigger than what ballerina's are 'meant to be'.. does she take it serisouly?

  • Well it wasn't the most amazing pas de deux I've seen but definitely not deserving of all the criticism it's received.

  • Oh my goodness...I can't believe that someone would say she is overweight. Perhaps that wasn't the right word for it...maybe healthy would better suit her. They were both great, and I think we should stop judging people by looking at their size...talent is much, much more important.

  • I loved them! =)

  • I think they are great! good job!

  • the first problem is not tecnique or weight...the problem is HEART.If you don't use it,this pas de deux loose all its charm,and all your clean turns haven't any meaning.

  • very well done. i was worried at first cause you guys looked a little mismatched but you work together almost perfectly. keep it up.  and that girl is not too big, companies don't think like that anymore, they look at what you can do especially in contemporary ballet.

  • i think both dancers did a great job. the turns in the end were really clean and the lift was soo pretty.

  • I agree with you cizzzam. A lot of these people go around passing judgment on everyone's technique when they have nothing to show for themselves. Ignore any harsh comments and keep up the good work, both of you! =)

    And regarding any weight comments... Kudos to her for being a healthy dancer.

  • hahahah these comments relly make me laugh...the one about the choreo sucking hahahahaha youtube any other nutcracker pas..notice somthing...yeah there the same..and a side note...really annoying how ppl are such great critics when they dont even have a single video of themselves for us to critique..i wonder why that is???

  • If any of this offends anyone then you will never survive in the dance world. Back to the dance....too flitty....not enough tradition and very girly...esp coming from the boy. Other than that..its ok. Keep going to class and girl....unless you are going to double major in something other than dance you must get smaller and stronger period.

  • hm, kinda lifeless? Maybe this was at the end of the day and you weren't putting 100% in.

  • im not a huge fan of the choreography, repetition makes this dance loose its power. its not bad, im sure that i could never make up anything like that so keep on goin

  • there is no heart in this, its completely soul less

  • hmm yes the arms need work and the ballerina needs to lose a bit of weight.

  • wow, that's low. I think they are amazing. Well done guys, keep it up.

  • I didn't mean to be rude at all. I have the very same problem. I need to lose some weight. A skinny ballerina looks much more graceful and the movements are more powerful and stand out more on a skinny ballerina.

  • Well I disagree in this case. If you saw the show, you wouldn't think that. She was amazing and had so much more passion for the dance then just another stereotypical ballerina.

  • Dont really like arms on turns, I can see great calf muscles! And need more posture seems like. The guy is very good.

  • you're rather turned in.

  • I know personally that if a girl is alittle bigger then I wont lift her. Its not ment to be. Ballet Pas is suppose to be graceful and weightless and effortless...not weightlifting.

  • Dude if you think she's too heavy you either need to eat more yourself or else you're doing your lifts wrong ...

  • No but only because I made the choice not to in favour of getting paid to sue people! Grow up kiddo.

  • Good thing you don't live in the real world then eh?!

  • You are so pathetic...you actually replied back to a message that was 3 months ago....looks like you need to grow up kiddo

  • Yeah it's so pathetic of me not to be on youtube all day every day waiting for you to post your rude comments! I revel in my pathos!!!!

  • quit replying back loser...get a real job!

  • Hey if you don't like people replying to your idiotic comments maybe you shouldn't keep posting them. I'm not about to cowtow to an immature nincompoop who can't stand to be contradicted.

  • haha immature nincompoop huh? How old are you? I bet i'm older than you and I let this stupid argument with a wanna be dancer go over 3 months ago but apparently you cant live without drama. Just because you hate your job or w/e doesnt mean you need to criticize a critic. I have to creds to give my professional advice so go back to your 9-5 and collect your Social Security

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  • Both dancers are good. Technique looks good. But more flexibility in the ballerina(i guess its you) can be better. With a little more flexibility it will seem very very good i guess. If you are not going to pilates...try it. It really helps. Anyway i liked it. Keep on going...

  • Both dancers are ok...Some stuff is 'decent'. Thats it. Yes they look very tired and lifeless....but why tape something if you are going to dance that lifeless. Sorry to be mr negative but yes she needs to lose weight. Stereotypical or not she will not get a prof. job at her size and guys wont want to dance with you because they wont want to get hurt picking you up.

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