This video makes me feel good, because i am better than her, than she is in this video, and i'm only 13 :) makes me believe i can be like her when i grow up!
Actually, there are many ties between gymnastic and ballet, even if they are not the same. Isolation of one thing from another is a false purism...best to learn from everything you can, while staying focused on what you want to do. Also, variations in the style of alignment, here, diagonal vs. straight extensions, are sometimes taught for the purpose of creating a more pleasing visual line,and may also accommodate human structures which like hip joints are not orthogonals in all people equally.
@MlleOdilette Your an idiot if you think ballet and gymnastics doesn't have a similar correlation. Or you haven't been involved in either. I totally agree with dellaroux's comment.
@gabriellebulka u have to be talented i was in ballet school since i was three my entire life is ballet i eat drink and breath ballet maybe you just don't take classes enough how many times a week
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Im 14 y-old now, and i have been attending ballet classes science i was 4 , but i have got problems, I love ballet and if i could, i would dance like them !
OMG there wearing pointes all the time ! pointes are so soft... they look like ballet shoes !
Im 14 y-old now, and i have been attending ballet classes science i was 4 , but i have got problems, I love ballet and if i could, i would dance like them !
C'est fou, j'ai connu Sylvie Guillem j'avais 12ans j'étais petit rat pendant 2ans. Il s'avèrera par la suite que j'étais beaucoup plus intéréssé par la musique! J'étais entré à l'Opéra pour faire comme mon frère, qui lui est devenu danseur étoile. Pour ceux qui étaient là à cette époque, vous devinerez peut-être qui est mon frère..
I'm a fat musician so I can't say much technically about this (^^) but a friend of mine (who is a dancer) has really got me looking up this woman. She's really impressive a so so graceful!
the only thing disturbing me is the fact that their extensions are not sqaure (i.e. the arabesque is not behind them, their developpe to the front is not in front of them)
@SLYCoopaEatsChicken this studio is part of the Opera House (Palais Garnier). The School of the Paris Opera was located there before they moved to Nanterre. So the studios are like the opera - royal :)
She started at 12 and she is a proffesional now!! Wow. This just shows that if you really want to be a dancer or really want to be somthing you can be it if you work hard. She is so inspiration :D Love You Sylvie :]
Well it also must be noted that she was a gymnast at a young age before she decided to switch to ballet at age 11/12. So she already had attained the muscular training and balance to help facilitate her ballet training. Much harder for a person starting after the age of 10 with no dance or gym training at all (tho still very possible for them to excell). :)
She is very interesting ballerina I love watching her performe contemporary roles she has a lot of deapth in her characters she is a great artist and beautiful women!
yeah. btw am i the only one who thinks that the studio looks like a mansion... wish I got that...
I don't think that comparing gymnastics and ballet could ever be very accurate. they are like sisters. for both you have to be graceful, balanced, secure. the real difference is in the body. ballet is like gymnastics for tall people.
@theamazingsoter thanks i know, the comment has been really blown out of proportion. the misunderstanding is that i meant only to compare them as physical activities that focus heavily on the beauty of natural movement and grace. obviously though they are fundamentally and structurally different and i am well aware of that. srry for everybody not understanding metaphoric speech.
@icantpirrouette13 Metaphoric speech? You said "ballet is like gymnastics for tall people" - that's hardly metaphoric... and completely not true, anyway.
@theamazingsoter maybe metaphoric is not the right word. but regardless, i just meant that in a stylistic way not literally or about their fundamentals. I know that they do none of the same things or even close i just meant that they are both physically strenuous activities that are graceful and artistic at some level. I am a pre professional ballerina and I know that they are not in any way the same. actually I was calling out someone elses comment at the time who had said they were the same.
@icantpirrouette13 um just to clarify cause u all hate me i didn't mean to compare them structurally i am in a pre professional ballet program and i know what it is . ALL I MEANT TO SAY IS THAT THEY ARE BOTH PHYSICALLY STRENUOUS ACTIVITIES THAT ARE FOCUSED ON BEAUTY OF MOVEMENT. THAT IS ALL. PLEASE STOP HATING ON ME. although i stand by the fact that tall people tend to be better at ballet than gymnastics simply for a structural reason of fitting the apparatus with operating room.
"Sylvie Guillem, I'm in second division with miss Jaqueline Morreau. I'm 14 and I went to the Paris Opéra to learn gymnastic. But I have prefered ballet, which directly fascinated me" :-)
gymnastic should be gymnastics. Gymnastic is the adjective. Like saying it looked gymnastic in the way she moved. Gymnastics is the noun, as in I went to the paris opera to learn gymnastics.
The music is louder than her voice, so I'm not certain, but it sounds like she specifically says that she's "on a sports scholarship to study gymnastics." I wonder if her height influenced her to make the transition from gymnastics to ballet.
DUHHHHHHHH thats sylvie guillem!!! she stumbles hella much cause she didnt neet to start trying till like hellla days after that. cause she kicks ass.
it's probably more to do with her age and the fact that she's growing-it makes it more difficult for tall dancers as it takes time for the muscles to catch up with the bone growth.
i noe at the beginning..she said "pay attention" and while she was showing them the combination, she was giving them critiques like "toes on the knee" and "truned out foot" etc
must be nice, being able to get ur leg tht high... for some reason i just cant seem to do it :( i work my butt of in class and at home but... i just cant do it...
My pointe/ballet teacher literally comes over to you and turns your foot the way its suppose to be, or sometimes she just says it over and over until you get it right. My dance teacher is awesome, almost like an American version of this teacher [=
ok the teacher in this video is giving them corrections while they're dancing, and people can be naturally thin, or petite, alot of making or breaking for serious classical ballet dancers is body type I have to say, doesn't matter if your the best dancer ever if you have the wrong body type the big places wont take you.(SAB .ABT Royal Ballet, Paris Opera,) Just naming a few schools
for reallsss guys these girls danced everyday for 8 hours when they were growing up...now wonder their amazing cut urself come slake...no matter what dance anyway it may never be good enough for the world...but dance anyway :)
i dance ballet for 8 years..the 6 of them i had a teacher that didnt correct us in class she was just look at us and sayin nothing..the last 2 years i am to another scoole and i have some technicals problems because of her.
she took gymnastics before, so that'sd probably where she got her strength and flexibilty. but i agree. it's hard to master that degree of artistry in only two years.
I agree...I actually didn't start training seriously until I was 12 but I was able to improve extremely quickly and was quite strong, only because I'd been a rhythmic gymnast for many years prior. I have no idea if I'd ever have been able to achieve a professional level technique had it not been for gymnastics (even though I had to 're-learn' and undo many bad habits.
if the teacher doesn't correct you during the dance then you will have to wait to the next time to do it right. it's the opera, i don't think their teaching is bad...
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They're not THAT amazing when you put a few pounds on them, make their feet a bit less pointey and tighten their hamstrings a tad. It's like ALL flash. Look at their technique--it's not UNBELIEVABLE.
I'm not saying they're bad so don't bite my head off please, but they're not as dream-like as people make them out to be.
yeah don't worry. i get you, i may be the only one though as i see you got about 6 negative thumbs down lol. But its ok, cause sure they arent bad at all! But i think that since there are so many of them, its not very synchronized and it kind of takes away from the girl that there trying to focus on. And they are very very thin, i should hope that's just because of all the practice, and nothing else.
They're only 14! Oh my God! I'm 13, and not as good as them and I've been dancing since I was 2. And the things they could do on pointe. And their extensions. I just died.
I guess this is an excerpt of some video or maybe documentary, does anyone know where does this video come from? I would love to see the whole thing!! Shes is amazing!
god i wish i could do that. I'm fourteen too and I have been dancing since i was three. i wish i had that extension and their long legs! i'm so short! >:O
The "narrator person" is her own voice explaining that she's Sylvie Guillem 14 years old and that she entered the Opera Ballet school in a gymnastic sports study program but instantly preferred dancing to gymnastics.
I asked this things because I love ballet, but I know that I not excelent. So I prefer to be a good teacher than a bad dancer. Don't you think the same?
I didn't understand what you mean with : "believe me it's worth learning diploma's etc from highly regarded teachers that have taught it before".
I'm afraid at 16 your choices are quite limited. If you had a good teacher in technique then she would have spotted your potential herself much earlier on. You can still be a teacher, a good teacher and a good technician. But do it properly. Learn your stuff. I say this because my mother is one of the best Cecchetti teachers in Australia (Don't know if you have cecchetti method in France) but believe me it's worth learning diploma's etc from highly regarded teachers that have taught it before.
I think in the begining when a woman say something in french it sas that she used gimnastics but she prefered dance (i don't know if that was what she said) but tha think is that it maybe the why... just MAYBE!
Wow, you can see how she surpasses te others with flying colours! She has better feet, extention, hight, balance and a better sense of the music. Amazing!
The French know how to do it....!!!... wobbling and all she was marked from that tender age...many acomplished older dancers wobble too in class...it's allowed....!!!... her legs are above 90 degrees each time and fully stretched, good placement too...and look at her fabulous feet...:-))
It is really fantastic to see her back when she was so young. It really gives you a lot of perspective. She wobbled when she was in arabesque and struggled with the shape of her legs, sometimes we think we are the only ones. :)
This video makes me feel good, because i am better than her, than she is in this video, and i'm only 13 :) makes me believe i can be like her when i grow up!
StrawJberryGirl 2 weeks ago
Actually, there are many ties between gymnastic and ballet, even if they are not the same. Isolation of one thing from another is a false purism...best to learn from everything you can, while staying focused on what you want to do. Also, variations in the style of alignment, here, diagonal vs. straight extensions, are sometimes taught for the purpose of creating a more pleasing visual line,and may also accommodate human structures which like hip joints are not orthogonals in all people equally.
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MlleOdilette 2 months ago
@dellaroux bullshit
MlleOdilette 2 months ago
@MlleOdilette Your an idiot if you think ballet and gymnastics doesn't have a similar correlation. Or you haven't been involved in either. I totally agree with dellaroux's comment.
icarrus4u 1 month ago
I'd LOVE to see videos of all my favourite dancers when they were at school.
Thank you God for the videos!!!!
frapuchinocaramel 4 months ago
she prefers dance to gymnastics" thats all i got in french, lol. i'm takig french next year, its beautiful
balletstyle 4 months ago
I JUST WANT TO HAVE SUCH STRONG LEGS ! THEY R FANTASTIC
it doesnt fair ! i ve been attending ballet classes for 10 years and whta ?! nothing
gabriellebulka 5 months ago
@gabriellebulka u have to be talented i was in ballet school since i was three my entire life is ballet i eat drink and breath ballet maybe you just don't take classes enough how many times a week
oshitnotagain 3 months ago
@oshitnotagain i think that the answear is in talent and my sick knees and loins
how many times ? every day for 1,5- 3
gabriellebulka 3 months ago
what year was this?
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700kirsty 5 months ago
I love being able to understand their Frenchhh oh my gosh!
chicelephante 7 months ago
Im 14 y-old now, and i have been attending ballet classes science i was 4 , but i have got problems, I love ballet and if i could, i would dance like them !
OMG there wearing pointes all the time ! pointes are so soft... they look like ballet shoes !
gabriellebulka 7 months ago
@gabriellebulka Its probably soft blocks.
RainingSilence 6 months ago
@RainingSilence You can't go en pointe in soft block shoes, there is no shank.
Evanescence9582 6 months ago
@Evanescence9582 I mean for the first developpe exercise, the shoes look softer there than in the turning exercise.
RainingSilence 6 months ago
Im 14 y-old now, and i have been attending ballet classes science i was 4 , but i have got problems, I love ballet and if i could, i would dance like them !
gabriellebulka 7 months ago
@14trinaballerina She's the one in the front I think :)
Justine581 7 months ago
thats an amazing class of fourteen year olds.....
alannathelioness1 8 months ago 2
C'est MAGNIFIQUE!!!!:D
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Wayyy muuuch better than my class! lol!XD she is AH-MAZ-ING!!! :'))
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Wayyy muuuch better than my class! lol!XD she is AH-MAZ-ING!!! :'))
XxMelinaxMallisaxX 9 months ago
Wayyy muuuch better than my class! lol!XD she is AH-MAZ-ING!!! :'))
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Wayyy muuuch better than my class! lol!XD she is AH-MAZ-ING!!! :'))
XxMelinaxMallisaxX 9 months ago
Wayyy muuuch better than my class! lol!XD she is AH-MAZ-ING!!! :'))
XxMelinaxMallisaxX 9 months ago
Je trouve que les ballerines étaient très bonne ! Sa serait mon rêve de prendre mes cours là.
97demiandselenafan 9 months ago
C'est fou, j'ai connu Sylvie Guillem j'avais 12ans j'étais petit rat pendant 2ans. Il s'avèrera par la suite que j'étais beaucoup plus intéréssé par la musique! J'étais entré à l'Opéra pour faire comme mon frère, qui lui est devenu danseur étoile. Pour ceux qui étaient là à cette époque, vous devinerez peut-être qui est mon frère..
STORM13NOTE 9 months ago
which documentary is this one?
hikari6986 9 months ago
she is sooooo good
ktaballet 1 year ago
English subtitles would have been nice.
jngwatson 1 year ago
she is so good! I love her feet!
balletgirl103 1 year ago
how old are these girls????
littlemissdance136 1 year ago
WHAT A INCREDIBLE STUDIO ! I'M REALLY IMPRESSED
marianareis12 1 year ago
very nice!
tasumarin 1 year ago
¡Sublime!
duendesu 1 year ago
im soo jealous. their studio is gorgous and their so good :)
pinkblue114 1 year ago 2
I'm a fat musician so I can't say much technically about this (^^) but a friend of mine (who is a dancer) has really got me looking up this woman. She's really impressive a so so graceful!
lennic95 1 year ago 4
I WANT HER LEGS!!! :(
MrZoeIsaBeast 1 year ago 5
@MrZoeIsaBeast Who DOESN'T?!?!?!?
verizonstinks1 1 year ago
out of all those people in the class she has the LONGEST legs and the most GORGEOUS feet!
balletgirlthatrulz 1 year ago
the only thing disturbing me is the fact that their extensions are not sqaure (i.e. the arabesque is not behind them, their developpe to the front is not in front of them)
wigglebells 1 year ago 12
@wigglebells I think their teacher is saying "Croisez bien les arabesques" (Cross your arabesques), so maybe she's trying to correct them.
AKdancer22792 1 year ago
@wigglebells That's why their are in school, training... Have you seen her in years of her professional ballet mastery? She obviously corrected it.
icarrus4u 1 month ago
why do they need a chandelier in the dance studio? Just wondering lol
SLYCoopaEatsChicken 1 year ago
@SLYCoopaEatsChicken this studio is part of the Opera House (Palais Garnier). The School of the Paris Opera was located there before they moved to Nanterre. So the studios are like the opera - royal :)
danzamore 1 year ago
She started at 12 and she is a proffesional now!! Wow. This just shows that if you really want to be a dancer or really want to be somthing you can be it if you work hard. She is so inspiration :D Love You Sylvie :]
Frenchbabex 1 year ago 5
@Frenchbabex
Well it also must be noted that she was a gymnast at a young age before she decided to switch to ballet at age 11/12. So she already had attained the muscular training and balance to help facilitate her ballet training. Much harder for a person starting after the age of 10 with no dance or gym training at all (tho still very possible for them to excell). :)
Budaphly 1 year ago
She is very interesting ballerina I love watching her performe contemporary roles she has a lot of deapth in her characters she is a great artist and beautiful women!
Consofdance 1 year ago
woah!
mysweetsmile23 1 year ago
=) Fascinée !
ladansecmapassion 1 year ago
c'est tres belle. j'adore des enfants de ballet. je pense ils sont plu belle quant les danseuses adulte
pinkladyenrose 1 year ago
ohmygoshhhhh, i wish i danced there.
laurabeex3 1 year ago
i know its soo beautiful
danceismything2 1 year ago
this studio looks amazing
i wish i danced there :)
xjustxlistenx 2 years ago 3
@xjustxlistenx me2 we wer nva allowd 2 do that at tht age..
gensexercises 2 years ago 2
thats upsetting :(
xjustxlistenx 1 year ago
it has a chandelier
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yeah. btw am i the only one who thinks that the studio looks like a mansion... wish I got that...
I don't think that comparing gymnastics and ballet could ever be very accurate. they are like sisters. for both you have to be graceful, balanced, secure. the real difference is in the body. ballet is like gymnastics for tall people.
icantpirrouette13 2 years ago
@icantpirrouette13 Ballet is dance. It has nothing to do with gymnastics.
theamazingsoter 4 months ago 2
@theamazingsoter thanks i know, the comment has been really blown out of proportion. the misunderstanding is that i meant only to compare them as physical activities that focus heavily on the beauty of natural movement and grace. obviously though they are fundamentally and structurally different and i am well aware of that. srry for everybody not understanding metaphoric speech.
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@icantpirrouette13 Metaphoric speech? You said "ballet is like gymnastics for tall people" - that's hardly metaphoric... and completely not true, anyway.
theamazingsoter 3 months ago 9
@theamazingsoter maybe metaphoric is not the right word. but regardless, i just meant that in a stylistic way not literally or about their fundamentals. I know that they do none of the same things or even close i just meant that they are both physically strenuous activities that are graceful and artistic at some level. I am a pre professional ballerina and I know that they are not in any way the same. actually I was calling out someone elses comment at the time who had said they were the same.
icantpirrouette13 3 months ago
@icantpirrouette13 um just to clarify cause u all hate me i didn't mean to compare them structurally i am in a pre professional ballet program and i know what it is . ALL I MEANT TO SAY IS THAT THEY ARE BOTH PHYSICALLY STRENUOUS ACTIVITIES THAT ARE FOCUSED ON BEAUTY OF MOVEMENT. THAT IS ALL. PLEASE STOP HATING ON ME. although i stand by the fact that tall people tend to be better at ballet than gymnastics simply for a structural reason of fitting the apparatus with operating room.
icantpirrouette13 4 months ago
Can anyone translate what the young voice says in the middle of the adagio?
LeDANSEx3 2 years ago
"Sylvie Guillem, I'm in second division with miss Jaqueline Morreau. I'm 14 and I went to the Paris Opéra to learn gymnastic. But I have prefered ballet, which directly fascinated me" :-)
(Sorry if I made a mistake but I'm french ^^)
Justine581 2 years ago 51
Thank you so much! No you did not make a mistake at all! <3
LeDANSEx3 2 years ago
She did but it was minor
JJboy1992 2 years ago
gymnastic should be gymnastics. Gymnastic is the adjective. Like saying it looked gymnastic in the way she moved. Gymnastics is the noun, as in I went to the paris opera to learn gymnastics.
JJboy1992 2 years ago
surrender to me
msa1985 2 years ago
The music is louder than her voice, so I'm not certain, but it sounds like she specifically says that she's "on a sports scholarship to study gymnastics." I wonder if her height influenced her to make the transition from gymnastics to ballet.
eeniemyer 2 years ago
what is the french lady saying?
balletgirlthatrulz 2 years ago
She's just telling them how to do the exercice :-)
Justine581 2 years ago
elle etait toujours un belle danseuse
MrPatidifusa 2 years ago
It's the French Opera - no wonder it's the tempel of dance!
michelfroget 2 years ago 2
<3 <3
8Napoletana8 2 years ago
1. longest legs ever
2. highest extensions ever
3. highest arches ever
4. best turns ever
Who is the girl in the front of the class? She stumbles around an awful lot (she is still absolutely amazing).
Love their leotards!
....and that's a hella nice studio....
SteelioC 2 years ago 85
DUHHHHHHHH thats sylvie guillem!!! she stumbles hella much cause she didnt neet to start trying till like hellla days after that. cause she kicks ass.
qmcknight 2 years ago
it's probably more to do with her age and the fact that she's growing-it makes it more difficult for tall dancers as it takes time for the muscles to catch up with the bone growth.
weebluealien1 2 years ago 2
@SteelioC sylvie of course!!! :)
Kata397533 1 year ago
@SteelioC zakharova too
86sheru 1 year ago 2
@SteelioC
i think that's sylvie guillem
ronaldoluva 1 year ago
@SteelioC
it is france. did you think they would have a studio that was bad?!
Capizio77 1 year ago 5
@SteelioC um thats sylvie
iloveballet98 10 months ago 2
long legs n long arms OMG
luvideochantale 2 years ago
When was that? How long ago?
Amadiana13 2 years ago
Longest legs i have ever seen!!!!!!
MrsInaproppriate 2 years ago 3
Thanks for the video! What a difficult adage combination. I loved the pointe combination -- excellent.
Susiejax 2 years ago 5
She is so tall and such a beautiful dancer.
7agplace7 2 years ago
she has THE longest legs everrr!
alliboballi00 2 years ago 3
she's so flexible!!
vess1028 2 years ago
c'est fantastique!! :) j'adore parlez le francais :)
ellie5ballerina4ever 2 years ago
i now right. actualy i think learning french would be very helpful. to bad im learning spanish this year
balletangel1 2 years ago
hola amiga :)
isthatmarcee 2 years ago
its nice to know that i know half of what she is saying (:
cutielolxx 2 years ago
What is she saying?? I can only understand the ballet terminology.
sweetsugarpurple 2 years ago
i noe at the beginning..she said "pay attention" and while she was showing them the combination, she was giving them critiques like "toes on the knee" and "truned out foot" etc
cutielolxx 2 years ago
also silvie was saying who her teacher was, and how she loved to dance, and he teaacher was saying to breathe...and stuff like that
cutielolxx 2 years ago
must be nice, being able to get ur leg tht high... for some reason i just cant seem to do it :( i work my butt of in class and at home but... i just cant do it...
lookformeontv 2 years ago
yay she looks like she had hyper extended knees. I don't feel so alone :)
mellalellaopolis 2 years ago 3
My pointe/ballet teacher literally comes over to you and turns your foot the way its suppose to be, or sometimes she just says it over and over until you get it right. My dance teacher is awesome, almost like an American version of this teacher [=
cheer4giants 2 years ago
Beautiful extensions. I'm also 14, and I don't think I could ever reach that high!
xhopefull11x 2 years ago
ok the teacher in this video is giving them corrections while they're dancing, and people can be naturally thin, or petite, alot of making or breaking for serious classical ballet dancers is body type I have to say, doesn't matter if your the best dancer ever if you have the wrong body type the big places wont take you.(SAB .ABT Royal Ballet, Paris Opera,) Just naming a few schools
RoyalClassique 2 years ago 3
for reallsss guys these girls danced everyday for 8 hours when they were growing up...now wonder their amazing cut urself come slake...no matter what dance anyway it may never be good enough for the world...but dance anyway :)
balletbaybe 2 years ago 3
to pointeoflife
i dance ballet for 8 years..the 6 of them i had a teacher that didnt correct us in class she was just look at us and sayin nothing..the last 2 years i am to another scoole and i have some technicals problems because of her.
revolutioncomming 2 years ago 3
i love their leotards with the little sticky out hips theyre excellent!
bilty93 2 years ago
i cant believe she started when she was 12! this is unbelievable for only taking ballet 2 years! wow
BalletIsBeautiful 2 years ago
she took gymnastics before, so that'sd probably where she got her strength and flexibilty. but i agree. it's hard to master that degree of artistry in only two years.
mellalellaopolis 2 years ago 2
I agree...I actually didn't start training seriously until I was 12 but I was able to improve extremely quickly and was quite strong, only because I'd been a rhythmic gymnast for many years prior. I have no idea if I'd ever have been able to achieve a professional level technique had it not been for gymnastics (even though I had to 're-learn' and undo many bad habits.
kdub10009 2 years ago
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A ballet or music teacher should NEVER give directions DURING the dance or play. Perhaps just a word of encouragement, but... NOTHING else!
StephenChin1 2 years ago
how come?! I think a teacher should give corrections during the dance. A teacher just cant stare at them and watch their mistakes and say nothing!
madydance 2 years ago
Why not? Why should the student wait to correct mistakes?
pointeoflife 2 years ago
i've never seen a teacher who doesn't correct. this teacher is very encouraging in her corrections. i see no problem with that.
budlong 2 years ago
if the teacher doesn't correct you during the dance then you will have to wait to the next time to do it right. it's the opera, i don't think their teaching is bad...
naatqueen 2 years ago 4
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They're not THAT amazing when you put a few pounds on them, make their feet a bit less pointey and tighten their hamstrings a tad. It's like ALL flash. Look at their technique--it's not UNBELIEVABLE.
I'm not saying they're bad so don't bite my head off please, but they're not as dream-like as people make them out to be.
andipandi8 2 years ago
yeah don't worry. i get you, i may be the only one though as i see you got about 6 negative thumbs down lol. But its ok, cause sure they arent bad at all! But i think that since there are so many of them, its not very synchronized and it kind of takes away from the girl that there trying to focus on. And they are very very thin, i should hope that's just because of all the practice, and nothing else.
sliverofaSlice 2 years ago
omg she was like born amazing!!!
kiradance93 2 years ago 3
I'm thirdteen and my technique is far from that. Oh my god. Sylvie Guillem has always been great. I hope I get there :D
Kiarpb 2 years ago
thats so amazing! omg
juliqueee 2 years ago 3
They're only 14! Oh my God! I'm 13, and not as good as them and I've been dancing since I was 2. And the things they could do on pointe. And their extensions. I just died.
danceaholic95 2 years ago 4
jeje la primera c ztaba kayemdo XD
primzezithamuerrtha 2 years ago
didn't she start dancing when she was 12? and this was when she was 14? OMFG! that's amazing!
mario57353 2 years ago 4
She started at 12...and this is 14...I think I just died.
I'm dead I know it.
justin9019 2 years ago 6
she's done gymnastics before. Even though..... I'm dead too.
FanOfRudyLenners 2 years ago 3
I guess this is an excerpt of some video or maybe documentary, does anyone know where does this video come from? I would love to see the whole thing!! Shes is amazing!
anelacadillo 2 years ago
Sorry but which one is her? I think I know but I can't tell.
demipoints123 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure she's in the very front, the tallest.
ashleyjuddstwin 2 years ago
Oui, you can tell it's her. Her extension is impeccable even then! It's like she has no hips, she can lift her legs at any angle!
tismurdis 2 years ago
i wish i was that thin!!
savethewhales27 2 years ago 5
god i wish i could do that. I'm fourteen too and I have been dancing since i was three. i wish i had that extension and their long legs! i'm so short! >:O
sydalee9433 2 years ago
haha i feel your pain
i'm 12 and 5'0
!!
xxtwilightgurlxx 2 years ago
Looks like she was blessed with those gorgeous feet from birth!
DanceswithPointeShoe 2 years ago
her hips weren't very square. but im so jealous of her feet.
wigglebells 2 years ago
It is a sea of long legs.... LOOK
haha
kbtdancer1222 2 years ago 5
isn't it funny how they zoomed in on her then and she wasn't even famous yet.
what was it the narrator person was saying about her being too gymnastic or something?
prettyballerina1 2 years ago
The "narrator person" is her own voice explaining that she's Sylvie Guillem 14 years old and that she entered the Opera Ballet school in a gymnastic sports study program but instantly preferred dancing to gymnastics.
annadance07 2 years ago
omg...i am in a ballet academy and i look so crap against these girls.....
schneggilein89 2 years ago 2
Bellet is really hard work, i know it!
katzenmulle 2 years ago
it's
BALLET
puppydawgluv 2 years ago
My hobby is hiding some mistakes and
a dumb-ass found them!! Hahahaha...
katzenmulle 2 years ago
i hope to dance at the paris opera ballet one day,
when I'm older an can go to paris.
littlemissdance136 2 years ago
very good but at 0:52 Guillem's arabesque is too far to the side eh i know it doesn't matter know bc she is amazing but that still bugs me
33LiveandLove33 2 years ago
hardworking class...no slackers in there.
beautiful !
RoxyStreet 3 years ago 3
amazing!!!!!!!!! That must take tons of practice!!!!!
littlemissdance136 3 years ago 3
A prodigy then, a superstar now.
BallettCat 3 years ago
very nice
mizzlauren0101 3 years ago
Really? But I think I'm a litle bit older. I started when I was ten, but ..
mariatix 3 years ago
PERFECTA!!!
danzacynthia 3 years ago 2
I asked this things because I love ballet, but I know that I not excelent. So I prefer to be a good teacher than a bad dancer. Don't you think the same?
I didn't understand what you mean with : "believe me it's worth learning diploma's etc from highly regarded teachers that have taught it before".
Thnaks
mariatix 3 years ago
Notice how she's the only one that doesn't stumble at all. Funny that.
katoes2 3 years ago
And I am not english..
mariatix 3 years ago
I would like too to be a ballet teacher, there more possibilities?
mariatix 3 years ago
Yes... but I'm not skinny...
mariatix 3 years ago
I dance six day's a week,when you dance that much you get
skinny!
littlemissdance136 3 years ago
right me to i am goin into compotition next year i do ballet 6s days a week since i was four! im 11 now!
AlexandriaWong 2 years ago
i started ballet at 12 and am now at bird college in london! if ur dedicated and committed and have a good teacher u can get there!
nowhere near as good as sylvie mind,.. ha
missdrysdalex 3 years ago
I'm 16 years old and I started dance ballet five years ago in a not excelent ballet school. Could I become a professional dancer?
mariatix 3 years ago
I'm afraid at 16 your choices are quite limited. If you had a good teacher in technique then she would have spotted your potential herself much earlier on. You can still be a teacher, a good teacher and a good technician. But do it properly. Learn your stuff. I say this because my mother is one of the best Cecchetti teachers in Australia (Don't know if you have cecchetti method in France) but believe me it's worth learning diploma's etc from highly regarded teachers that have taught it before.
katoes2 3 years ago
davvero stupenda già a quella età era una giovane promessa per l'operà...divina!!!sylvie è la mejooooooooo
lulla500 3 years ago
Waouh!!!
Quelle grâce... Sylvie n'a pas fini de nous faire rêver...
famOusluxury 3 years ago
woah! how did you get this video? that is so interesting.
TheOriginalShirley 3 years ago
So CONTROLLED!
powellpicc1985 3 years ago
ah! her arabesques are perfect, and higher than all the other girls in that class.
GragariousGrace 3 years ago 2
I think in the begining when a woman say something in french it sas that she used gimnastics but she prefered dance (i don't know if that was what she said) but tha think is that it maybe the why... just MAYBE!
balletzenaida 3 years ago
I was sylvie who sid that she preffered dance to gymnastics
hgjon2 3 years ago
Whooooooaaauuww!
Deem09 3 years ago
holy smokes.....look at sylvie's FEET omg they are amazing!!!
schneggilein89 3 years ago 4
all of their legs ar sooooo long!!!!
treehuger501 3 years ago 4
Wow, you can see how she surpasses te others with flying colours! She has better feet, extention, hight, balance and a better sense of the music. Amazing!
WingedAngel02 3 years ago
its cool cuz i can understand like what shes telling the students to do
since the steps are in french
like you can hear the teacher say quaze
(sp) at like 19 and i was like
oh she means arabesque to the corner
haha
but sylvie has really beautiful extentions
dtadancer95 3 years ago 2
god watching this makes me feel hope!!! i'm 15 and i'm actually quite proud of myself right now. no one is perfect! it takes time to get better!
she was such a pretty dancer even then!!
i think i'm going to start doing my class on pointe though.. haha. not that i don't already do pointe for at least 2 or 3 hours everyday!!
vanillabean001 3 years ago
if you're wobbling you're pushing yourself all the time and making corrections and adjustments. no wonder today she is PERFECT
sak868 3 years ago
True. If you're wobbling, your body is working hard trying to figure everything out. Those are the people who learn the most.
affectivity 3 years ago
I love ballet so much, ha it's why I do it.
This made me realize that French is such a beautiful language. I haven't heard people speak it in forever!
Loves2dance13 3 years ago
The French know how to do it....!!!... wobbling and all she was marked from that tender age...many acomplished older dancers wobble too in class...it's allowed....!!!... her legs are above 90 degrees each time and fully stretched, good placement too...and look at her fabulous feet...:-))
deejazzdancer 3 years ago 2
It is really fantastic to see her back when she was so young. It really gives you a lot of perspective. She wobbled when she was in arabesque and struggled with the shape of her legs, sometimes we think we are the only ones. :)
GlassHands 3 years ago