Sylvie Guillem at 14, in class

Sylvie Guillem at 14, in class, at Paris Opera Ballet School

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[wigglebells]

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)

[theamazingsoter]

@icantpirrouette13 Metaphoric speech? You said "ballet is like gymnastics for tall people" - that's hardly metaphoric... and completely not true, anyway.

[StrawJberryGirl]

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!

[icarrus4u]

@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]

@wigglebells That's why their are in school, training... Have you seen her in years of her professional ballet mastery? She obviously corrected it.

[MlleOdilette]

@dellaroux bullshit

[dellaroux]

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.

[gabriellebulka]

@oshitnotagain i think that the answear is in talent and my sick knees and loins

how many times ? every day for 1,5- 3

[oshitnotagain]

@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

[icantpirrouette13]

@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.