I am from Bulgaria and I am an astronomer, I work in a planetarium. I have never been a ballerina and I am almost 60 years old. Every morning I listen to your videos. I don't look what movements you show. I just listen to the music and do gymnastics, and jump, and run and dance for 40 minutes. It helps me so much and gives me energy for the whole day. Thank you very, very much!!!

@renatoparonidecastro4970

3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful comment! It made me realize how much we good we do when we teach ballet

@froschunke6027

3 жыл бұрын

👍

@LuluFrance

3 жыл бұрын

This comment made my day!!!

@aichi9825

3 жыл бұрын

Hello Eva, I would love to get to know you and encourage each other. Please , if you have a moment, be so kind as to look at my profile and see if you might like to connect with a fellow athlete and intellect. m.facebook.com/AiChiChikara

@thedossisters9847

3 жыл бұрын

Аз също съм от българия 🇧🇬❤

It felt weird not being yelled at while doing the exercises...

@TheGurgina

4 жыл бұрын

or being constantly smacked for not standing straight or doing the exercises right.

@tochno_navernoe

4 жыл бұрын

I know right? So weird!

@user-dq9ws7lb5j

4 жыл бұрын

that is why there is no ballet in Belgium)

@Jaylade

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheGurgina where are you located that you're getting smacked...russia?

@romy7261

4 жыл бұрын

I KNOOOOW RIGHT

“You won’t see me” **oh no**

@gustavorubio3638

4 жыл бұрын

That was my same reaction haha. If I don’t see my ballet teacher doing the exercise she just dictates every move, but here it’s kinda difficult

@currynjuicy-polefun1091

3 жыл бұрын

XD

@chibiamiga594

3 жыл бұрын

😆😆 Same Here

@emilylee5376

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I need to see you.

@vipsandance

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahah I had to replay because i thoguht i heard wrong. Incredibly I actually rememerad everything.... but my body did NOT cooperate

The pianist is SO enjoying himself, I love that.

only good thing about Corona.. These streaming of ballet classes from the best of the best. Thank you.. you guys are a life saver!!

@Callie-uk7mo

4 жыл бұрын

Im doing 1 a day! its fabulous

@doreengridley1827

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these moments to try to regain supple muscles to super music xx

@doreengridley1827

4 жыл бұрын

Thank so much

@scarlet8078

4 жыл бұрын

I know it's crazy that we're all doing these ballet classes around the world. I live by Broadway in NYC & I can also see out my window 45 stories high other dancers across the way who workout in their own apartments

@DutchNatOperaBallet

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Vera! And everyone for all the great responses. In distance we connect. Stay safe!

This class has taught me, or reminded me, of two things - my short term memory is lousy; and in all these four decades of taking ballet classes, I've been relying too much on the dancer in front of me. Great idea to only to demonstrate on one side, and then make us work to remember the left!

@cosennet

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! I'm 67 and it is shocking how poor is my recall! When I was 19 it was so obvious. Left side - help! Actually it must be as good for my sad old brain as my sad old body :)

@CaternotCarter

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! It’s a very long since I did class and my brain was struggling, not to meant my body. But this is such a good way to get us to properly focus and not just follow!

@fr5489

2 жыл бұрын

It is impossible to learn this way!

@muncibedduSicilia

2 жыл бұрын

@@fr5489 check this lady. She explains very well from beginners class kzread.info/dash/bejne/eHhqxKRsfd2doZM.html

@sinemcelcius

2 жыл бұрын

hahahahha so relatable! :)

I can't go to ballet school because I don't have enough money, but I'm enjoying home lessons with this :-) Thank you I appriciate it I love ballet 🩰♡ from Japan

I used to go to ballet classes when I was younger. I'm from a small town, in a country with a lot of difficulties. When I was 11, they stopped teaching ballet at my town and I had to give up on something that I really loved. After a lot of years, I'm still living there, and the other day when I was listening to a Tchaikovsky's piece I had an epiphany, "what if I search for some free class online? ". I'm really glad I founded this, and also I'm really thankful to you and all the team behind these videos. I'm just doing it for fun, but being able to practise something I love after so many years, makes me feel so good that I almost cry every time I think about it, thanks! 💛

@annan3655

3 жыл бұрын

Bravo for you, just keep pursuing your dream! You are not alone!

Warm-up - Intro: 1:30 Exercise: 2:31 Plies - Intro: 4:36 Exercise: 5:49 First Tendu - Intro: 10:23 Exercise: 11:13 Tendu from the Fifth - Intro: 13:33 Exercise: 14:20 Slow Jete - Intro: 16:13 Exercise: 17:00 Pique- Intro: 18:53 Exercise: 19:24 Rond de Jambe - Intro: 20:42 Exercise: 21:58 Fondu - Intro: 26:13 Exercise: 26:56 Frappe - Intro: 29:05 Exercise: 29:43 Adage - Intro: 31:14 Exercise: 32:07 Grand Battement - Intro: 34:51 Exercise: 35:36 Rises to finish - 37:14

@cutenoterchen

4 жыл бұрын

T K thank you for this overview!

@mavicama

4 жыл бұрын

@T K thanks

@mavicama

4 жыл бұрын

@TK

@erikamaya3596

4 жыл бұрын

T K thanks

@user-xh8um9wv7m

4 жыл бұрын

T K んれ！ーー

Rex knows there's no way we can really do the second side without the teacher :P

@lindaharrison3240

4 жыл бұрын

Dude's turnout is sick!

@chirpie11

4 жыл бұрын

especially the Frappes!

@TjjazzMadrid

4 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm glad someone finally said what I was thinking!!

4 жыл бұрын

Just go back and do the second side watching the first side. :) That easy! :D

@sugarplum2467

4 жыл бұрын

I rewind for some exercises but most classes don't have a teacher showing the exercises at all and you just have to copy the person in front of you so it's a good habit to just learn to learn combinations.

Please don't ever stop streaming classes - even when this quarantine thing is over! I'm in Mexico and am so, so, so thankful for these classes!!! 💖

@nice_ci

3 ай бұрын

Where in Mexico?

it's 2023, no covid anymore but i live in Israel and there's a war so all our classes are canceled... enjoyed the video so much and sent a link to all of my ballet friends! thank you so much!!!

this gives me "early pandemic" nostalgic vibes.

me, never having taken a ballet class before this and not knowing any of the french words, trying to keep up: 👁👄👁

@DutchNatOperaBallet

3 жыл бұрын

😂 Keep practicing!

@isoldehammond23

3 жыл бұрын

You’re learning from some of the best. X

@phoebe_johno4

3 жыл бұрын

Same 😂

I would never be able to take classes like this in the real world (age and distance) so Thank You for making the Barre exercises online.

it’s 2022 and we’re out of quarantine and i am so thankful for these online classes. i am a college student who loved dance in hs so this is giving me an outlet. so thank you❤️

Thank you, folks! I've never done ballet in my life, I'm 66 years old, and somehow I decided I wanted to try it. Good thing no one's watching me, trying to point my toes in my living room! Great fun.

It’s 2023, I am 43years old and I just broke a sweat in my kitchen following this video. I loved it !

I'm a pediatrician down in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Ballet has always been a source of energy and happiness to balance all the bad stuff I have to deal with at the hospital. Thank you so much for posting this videos online when I'm needing them the most!

He actually appreciates the pianist!! That’s so rare in a ballet class and as a musician and a dancer I think this is something more ballet masters should consider.

@avesraggiana

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. It irks me to no end to see some top flight ballet dancers giving class online, and then abruptly cutting off the music (usually prerecorded), just because the exercise they put together is over. Sort of like in the old days, abruptly pulling the needle off a rotating record. Those of us of a certain age will remember what a grating sound that makes.

Lovely! I also loved that we can see the pianist, the people that make such beautiful music to dance to rarely get featured in videos 💙

Thank you so much, Rex. I still return to this fabulous barre and superb pianist in 2023.

For us non dancers this is very calming

This is the best of all the online ballet classes I’ve seen during this pandemic. So lovely to have the pianist too. My only request would be that you show each side for each exercise. Thank you so much for sharing these videos and stay well 💗

@aichi9825

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's a wonderful idea!!!

Excellent teacher!!! And the pianist - beautiful and inspiring music! Well done .Congratulations!!

A very comprehensive class to allow oneself to focus on technique, versus a complicated combination.

@thatahamoment497

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@honami41

4 жыл бұрын

I totally agree, easy to follow, engaging and effective. It's as tough as you want to make it!

I'd never be able to take these classes in real life - distance and skill level being the problem! This is truly the silver lining to the pandemic! THANK YOU!!!

An old ballet dancer here, this is the first time I've danced in a year... so thankful for the quality class from around the world!!!

I’ve been out the studio as a dancer, only teaching now, afraid to go back to the barre for my lack of muscle strength and stamina. This was amazing!!!!! I will do every day hopefully soon I can do a class again.

I did ballet since I was 4 years old for 12 years. I'm 45 now, had colon cancer stage 4 and recovered and now some metastasis to the brain and just had brain surgery, radio surgery and doing chemo all over again, It is beautiful to have found this free online classes since now everyone is pursuing after making money and have forgoten about giving just for the sake of it. This helps me a lot in my recovery, physically and emotionally and the music, well what can I say, I adore classical music and piano music has been a companion throughout my life. I really appreciate and thank all the people behind this. This is a change in the world, acts of kindness that go a long way in some people's lives. Thank you

Have finally found someone that can make me start ballet, and have since become addicted - because there is music and soul in this class… Tearfully thankful.

The Dutch speak brilliant English ... thank you for this

I got emotional. I even shed a few tears. I love ballet. I admire the dancers who dedicate their whole life for this wonderful and demanding talent.🦋🦋🦋🦋

Can't believe I'm just finding these videos now. Trained seriously in ballet before deciding to pursue music instead. So wonderful to have a class that is both challenging and that I can still follow along. And, with an excellent pianist :) Thanks for this!

Great tutorial; perfect pace for a 73 year young aging former dancer - you are inspiring. Thank you for these!

@clemmiemayhew1375

3 жыл бұрын

keep dancing!!!

@Coco-ww2hw

2 жыл бұрын

Hello, do i have to have ballet shoes for ballet? Im learning by myself

@nadrei9975

2 жыл бұрын

@@Coco-ww2hw no you don’t. If you want to do it as a hobby, ballet is mostly about movement and understanding of your body. The tights and leotard help to elongate the legs visually (that’s also why the shoes are mostly in ballet pink). The clothes are tight so that there isn’t much resistance. Just put on what ever you feel comfortable in (and are able to move), some socks (but make sure that your floor isn’t to slippery) and enjoy yourself ☺️ (Also one thing, please don’t force your turnout, turnout how ever wide feels natural. If it hurts, your knees aren’t over your toes when you plié or your weight isn’t spread equally on your foot when you stand flat it is to wide. Forcing your turnout only harms you)

@Coco-ww2hw

2 жыл бұрын

@@nadrei9975 thank you! You sound like a proffessional btw

This class is outstanding! The film quality (audio and visual) is top-notch, the teacher explains each exercise very clearly, and the music is perfect. Thank you for uploading this, and I look forward to seeing more classes (center exercises/combinations would be awesome).

Thank you,again!!!!!I make again and again this lessons,I love when you say :"Excelent,guys!" I'm not a girl from a loooong time,but I am very young inside,forever.With my feet operated both,and my heart a little sad for this time not so beautiful,I dance in my room,with my chair and with you.Excelent,Maestro!

Rex is such an elegant, attentive musician. Thank you so much for your detail and consistency. Your focus on your playing is something both inspiring and calming while trying to dance in a tiny NYC apartment.

Great and beautiful work-out. I am 75 years old and would like to continue improving both my body and hopefully slow-down the process of my deteriorating memory. Thank you so much for sharing the wisdom of your dance teacher to the public. The pianist is superb, as well. The music pieces were so rhythmic and inspiring.

Oh my god, I am from Brazil and I have just done these sequences at home during quarantine. I loved it so much!!! The way everything was shown, done with the viewers for the first time, and in the second time we could do it alone, so we could exercise our minds as well, it was just brilliant. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this! I haven’t done ballet for 3 years because I was scared of going to a class in person. This barre made me remember how much and why I love ballet (and that consistency is key-I have never felt so out of shape!) Thank you again! :)

@lyle_marie_ceniza

4 жыл бұрын

Same girl, I have 3 year break. I just got back last year October.

@midnight851

4 жыл бұрын

Elyssa Hunter Seeing this barre is inspiring me to get back to at least the barre after almost a year break... definitely know it won’t be easy!

One good thing of corona, i would never had all these good classes without corona

Thank you Mr. Meisner for the wonderful class. And please thank the Mr. Lobo for the lovely live music.

Ge-wel-dig! Zo genoten van deze barre met Rex als begeleider. Herinneringen aan opleiding duizend jaar geleden ;-) Bedankt!!!

Thank you for taking the time to provide a free class online. It has been decades since I have done any ballet and I have been feeling the desire to participate in the art form again privately. Now I can in my own home. Ballet is a discipline for living and for life :)

Forever going back and forth on the video cus no way i can do the "other side" without watching him! 😂

Just found this! So many thanks to the Dutch National Ballet, for providing these classes online for free! Feel so privileged, having Ernst Meisner and Rex, giving us “non-company” members training of the highest caliber. In the real world this would be 100% impossible for 98% of us. As a 63y/o travel nurse, and former ballroom competitor, working in stormy south Texas, the likelihood of ever dancing again feels impossible. But now I feel encouraged, and following your classes, even if I can barely do them, has given me new hope and energy!! May God bless you for your generosity , and keep you all safe during these trying times💖

@DutchNatOperaBallet

3 жыл бұрын

Wauw that is amazing Janet! We are so happy that you are able to dance again. Much luck for the future :)

Thanks a lot Ernst an Rex for all your Ballet classes. We are still in quarantine in Argentina (2 months so far), and following your exercises helps me not only to stay in shape, but also to keep my balance in every sense.

i loved it , its been so long ive never had my ballet class since 6 grade now im 31 years old, lol. so blessed to see this online class, keep up the good work, ur soo talented and amazing, nothing impossible in my age im gonna be ballerina amen

Great class. Not only did it get my old body moving, it made my brain work!

Beautiful!!! Makes me want to dance again

Mr. Meisner and Accompaniest, Thank you for your wonderful barres. I love how musical and square your barre is - the weight transitions and fun patterns. You are saving my sanity and technique. All the best to dancers everywhere - Go, Dutch National!

Thank you you guys for these amazing videos. Much appreciation from Japan. Amazing thing about dancing is we can all do together no matter where we are.

I'm a beginner to ballet and would greatly appreciate seeing both sides worked. Thank you so much for making these videos available to everyone stuck at home.👍❤

Thanks so much for you class. I'm not a professional dancer but I could follow your class along pretty well. This is the best online class on youtube!!! I'm looking forward to following the other classes along :) YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!!!!

I "fell off the wagon" over the summer I started a new business and was gardening and walking more, but last night I came back to the barre. The music started and the smile never left my face. It felt so lovely just to move again to the music. I am so grateful for these videos. It will be a long Covid winter here in Illinois, but this will be a light. Thank you!

@DutchNatOperaBallet

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for joining! We're very happy you're dancing with us:)

Please don’t delete it, this is such a beautiful find ❤️ please keep the video online at least until after this corona virus passes ❤️ Thank you

As we stay at home during this life- changing time, my daughter had struggled finding online ballet class that was both at her advanced level and constant (not so much stopping) and your class has been amazing! So thank you from beautiful Idaho, for this great class my daughter had truly enjoyed! Blessings!

Thank you Ernst and Rex from Los Angeles. I've been using follow along barre videos to supplement my weekly class for about three years, and I've always complained that there aren't any good barre videos with a male dancer. This one is fantastic. I love the live piano. The second side with piano only is a good memory challenge (though I'll admit to having to do the first side three or four times until I get it.) Hartelijk gedank!

What a precious gift. Thank you. Stay safe everyone.

I absolutely loved this!! Great atmosphere, people, and content.

Perfect !,, Will be my daily start of my exercises !!

Thanks because these classes are of great support in these difficult times... helping our mental health to overcome this!

Thank you so much for you commitment!It is so important for everyone of us in this moment. You artists are a real inspiration!Love you all

This was wonderful!! Thank you so much for demonstrating and to the accompanist for playing. Beautiful class to start the week.

I never comment on videos but that class just made my day. Thank you from Vanuatu.

I loved that barre! Thank you all!

Haven't done ballet in about 6 years. It feels great to be doing barre work again. Thank you!!!

Thank you for a great class. Although it's a recording, the teacher's energy made me feel I was in his class in person. The pianist also did a wonderful job! A perfect class for a day trapped in the house due to snow. Thank you so much!

My mum used to be a ballet dancer - I am a classical musician. I have never done ballet so I am really grateful for your high quality content - I can get to know this art a bit better and stay active in quarantine! Thank you :)

Please keep these coming! Wonderful and many thanks!

Your class heal my soul. Thank you!

The best of these I've tried so far - note to self: go see Dutch National Ballet perform when all this is over. Thanks for posting - I could (almost!) keep up.

In these difficult times, we continue to believe in the power of art. Opera and ballet offer comfort, distraction, inspiration and hope. ✨ Please let us know what you think of our First Ballet Barre Class in the comments! Warm-up - Intro: 1:30 Exercise: 2:31 Plies - Intro: 4:36 Exercise: 5:49 First Tendu - Intro: 10:23 Exercise: 11:13 Tendu from the Fifth - Intro: 13:33 Exercise: 14:20 Slow Jete - Intro: 16:13 Exercise: 17:00 Pique- Intro: 18:53 Exercise: 19:24 Rond de Jambe - Intro: 20:42 Exercise: 21:58 Fondu - Intro: 26:13 Exercise: 26:56 Frappe - Intro: 29:05 Exercise: 29:43 Adage - Intro: 31:14 Exercise: 32:07 Grand Battement - Intro: 34:51 Exercise: 35:36 Rises to finish - 37:14 Want to see more videos like this? Check our Playlist for more online classes: kzread.info/head/PL6LTjzHW3kssUBZm1X1PVZ6PkEXw44iIT

@dragon542009

4 жыл бұрын

i follow u every days u r at moment my contact with reality and u r an amazing wonderful teacher and dancer

@miloodidi

4 жыл бұрын

thank you from Argentina

@jesicaceschan657

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, please! I would like to see more videos with the most common mistakes when learning ballet . And how to correct them. Thank You!

@gloriaponssa2655

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much from Argentina

@DutchNatOperaBallet

4 жыл бұрын

@@jesicaceschan657 Thanks! Very cool idea! We'll put it on our list.

Thank you for all you´re doing for dancers in those difficult times! Live will bless you with all the best.

I love the whole set up and the way the class is held!🥰

Thank you, from Buenos Aires, Argentina!

This was fantastic! Please do more, this was so much fun!

I've just discovered these classes and they're such a gift! Thank you. 💛

This is such a blessing. Thank you to both artists for sharing your gifts to your fellow dancers around the world!

Marvelous! Thank you so much! You´re doing a great help to all our students home!!

Absolutely loved this barre. Thank you so much for sharing!!! It brought me so much joy in this weird period. I am really looking forward to the next ones

Thank you so much Ernst and Rex for a wonderful barre! This is truly helpful and so kind of you to release it to all of us to enjoy! Stay dancing, stay well!

Thank you, from Northern Calfornia. This is perfection.

Thank you so much for sharing! I am an adult ballet student, intermediate level, in Canada. I started when I was 45 years of age and love it (never danced as a child, wish I had!). I was able to follow along and participate not too badly for my level of experience. Thank you for doing such a great job with this. I love the live piano as well! Stay well. Kelly

@littleredcanoe

3 жыл бұрын

@sof bunny Never too late! Five years later, I am now doing pointe work as well! Enjoy!

Thank you so much for these classes! They're so incredibly helpful in this strange time

Thank you for giving back to us with your amazing talent.

Thank you for taking the time to film and post this. It makes isolation at home more bearable. Love from Canada!

Thank you from Japan and pray for bring coronavirus to an end. I learned ballet when I was 6 to 15, but became depression and gave up my ballerina's dream. I turned 23yold now, this video made me want to enjoy ballet again. Thank you very much!

@emilet.8915

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Start doing ballet again! Let your dream come true !

I've done these classes over and over again and I'll never get tired, they're so good! I'm so grateful to have the oportunity to take classes with the gratest ballet teachers and dancers! thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, time and passion for this beautiful art!

Thank you for uploading this amazing Barre class!! Stay safe.

I did this when it first aired and it was just as lovely the second time around!!!! Thank you for a lovely warm up before teaching!!!!

Thank you so much for uploading this. Taking these classes is so meaningful to me 💖❤

I had the most amazing day because of your class!! Thank you!

My daughter, who is 8 months pregnant, is doing these exercises with you. And now I, at 72 years, and several other oldish ladies are doing your ballet exercises. My last class was when I was 33, and I still love ballet barre. The pianist is excellent!

@nice_ci

3 ай бұрын

So lovely that you and friends are trying to practice it

Thank you very much for giving the ballet class online. Can't wait to watch the next one.

Great combinations and very useful verbal cues/corrections. Rex is incredible; his music has richness and depth and I love watching his hands dance on the keyboard. Doing the second side alone is great memory training.

Hi from Costa Rica! Thank you sooooo much. I loved this class. It's so amazing to see the ballet community working together online to stay in shape. Thank you thank you thank you!!!

You are all AMAZING , Thank you so much !!!

I ended up sweaty, but I enjoyed it, it was felt that it was a class of face -to -face, I really enjoyed it, much more with the talented pianist. Congratulations.