BALLET CHARACTERS Ranked: Very Demure or Mindful?

[@balletreign]

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[@C.f.by-Lialia-A.R]

Where can I find the ballet used at 5& 40

[@SneezingSquink]

The white board was the true ballet protagonist. Very demure. Very mindful.

[@balletreign]

Ballet protagonist trainee should study this ✨

[@ΕΦΗΚ-γ5ε]

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[@balletreign]

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[@dronesclubhighjinks]

“I mean, she fell for a donkey.” You two are priceless!! 🙏🧡😍🎶🩰✨

[@balletreign]

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[@juliadagnall5816]

I’d actually put Odette higher on the mindfulness scale. She isn’t hesitant to be with Siegfried just because she’s demure, she’s also thinking about how her choice will affect all the other swans. She can’t get carried away by her feelings because she has to be mindful about the curse. Then again I’ve also never seen a production where they put in the full prologue.

[@Danny-pd9yb]

Yes totally agree. What about Rothbart? The male antagonist in swan lake.

[@juliadagnall5816]

@ Too much Dramatic Cape Swirling™️ to be demure. I’d put him pretty far down on the mindfulness scale as well because while he’s always scheming it never occurred to him that the whole Odile thing was definitely cheating and that stacking the deck like that could come back to bite him.

[@erinstevens4886]

I LOVED this! I've been wanting a video where you break down characters' personalities and this was such a good way of doing so :)

[@menteaperta2195]

Despite it seeming so dumb, the discussion was very interesting un terms of what consequences specific behaviours create. It would be great to watch a part 2 lf this, with more characters including especially the characters from Cranko and Macmillans ballets (like Onegin, Manon, Mayerling amd Taming of the shrew). I feel like the discussion would be so interesting, and I feel like you should absolutely dive deeper into the modern neoclassical ballet world. I know quite a lot about them, I've danced in most of them and researched as well, so I would be happy to help you out if you needed an introduction to them😁 Anyway, thank you for your videos, they really are exactly what the nerdy ballet world was missing ❤

[@oxoelfoxo]

so much effort, printing and cutting out all those pics and attaching magnets!

[@SneezingSquink]

I need a ballet insights video on La Bayadere. It's a ballet I didn't even know existed until discovering this channel!

[@CheyenneSedai]

Yes pllleassseee. Before the Figure Skating season is over in March. I need at least one watch of Deniss' free with the story in mind from certified ballet experts.

[@levidashawty]

This video is one of my favorites, the vibe is just immaculate 😂❤

[@aflatminor-40]

1:04 CHALLENGE ACCEPTED DRUMROLL PLEASE FOR DEMURE COUNT AND MINDFUL COUNT Demure count: 152 Mindful count: 175 (Bonus cutesy count: 12) Bloopers were included and also the words "demureness" and "mindfulness" are factored in as well

[@schnellfamily7368]

Underrated comment

[@balletreign]

*extra ballet nerd points have been added to your account*

[@aflatminor-40]

@ I NEED THEM BALLET NERD POINTES (pun intended)

[@philzmusic8098]

I don't think Romeo is demure at all--he crashes a party where he knows he's not wanted, he sneaks into the Capulet garden to see Juliet, he marries her in secret. Juliet is even less demure!

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

The character of Ali is absolutely a sweetie pie, love that you two love him too

[@menteaperta2195]

Yea but I wouldn't put him at top demure. After all, the flashiest male variations are famous for being Basilio, Flames of Paris, Solor, Acteon and Corsaire. These are the absolute flashiest roles a male could think of somehow

[@gorespree6400]

Ok I totally underestimated the challenge and quickly needed a 2nd piece of paper. 😂 Anyways here's what I got: Demure (including demureness and demurely) - 155 Mindful (including mindfulness and unmindful) - 185 Cutesy (including cute) - 13 Puddle - 4 Duck - 7

[@balletreign]

We appreciate your extensive research and stats as well as your commitment to the challenge 🫡🫡 🏆

[@oxoelfoxo]

oooh, with disaggregation! thanks!

[@thellasilva]

Jemima is so demure and so mindful, she’s in a league of her own ❤❤

[@balletreign]

Queen Jemima 🦆👑

[@countryrose93]

Odette is VERY mindful! She is extremely aware of how her actions could impact the other swans, and is super cautious and guarded when first approached. I thought for sure she was gonna be peak demure-peak mindful.

[@Danny-pd9yb]

Yes totally agree. What about Rothbart? The male antagonist in swan lake.

[@emiliayap8762]

THANK YOU for calling out the make ballet protagonists that are red flags!

[@Danny-pd9yb]

I originally thought Siegfried would also be a red flag since he fell into the trick that Rothbart made Odile disguise as Odette.

[@ssjb7542]

Clever , enjoyable, & most educational presentation... your knowledge & professional expertise shines bright, BRAVA!!

[@ninacilliers3225]

Such a cool concept!😍

[@balletreign]

lol thank you!

[@claudiaberger9560]

Great video! One can actually learn a lot by watching your videos, thank you 🩵

[@esthereriksson865]

Such a mindful very demure video 💗💗

[@balletreign]

🤌🏻🤌🏻

[@ExpiredEden]

this video's editing was EXQUISITE !!! i was absolutely doubled over in laughter during Ivan's segment LOL (and giggling at every tiny annotation over the inserted ballet clips throughout)

[@egg002]

I wish real life had as many ballet dance circles as every ballet makes it seem

[@K0nt4kt]

OH NO im finally going to learn what all of that means. Proudly dont know what demure is this far in to the game

[@balletreign]

OH NOOO 🤣🤣

[@KayAlexandria283]

I could also be very biased but I personally think Myrtha is ✨very demure and very mindful✨~ but also very mean 😂

[@annaiuga]

Lovely video! Brighten my day!

[@Pomeranianlover15]

love how Eden fell almost out of the frame twice! :)

[@mermaidopulence8539]

I absolutely loved this video and it was cool seeing that I matched with y'all on some of my choices. Also every time y'all said "cutesy" I instantly thought of "every cutesy, very demure".

[@CheyenneSedai]

Ok I love all these discussions and character analysis. I love that you used the Carlos Acosta clips for Franz. He's just fantastic in the role. Also very much looking forward to seeing Denise's Bayadere free skate again with all this Solor analysis in mind

[@balletreign]

So happy u enjoyed this! 😆😆

[@diego-df]

This was such a fun (and educational) video! Jemima having her own board/tier is befitting, of the absolute Queen she is! 🦆👑✨

[@balletreign]

We must revere the puddle duck ✨✨

[@barbaraangelim8716]

Girls i would love to see a video where you recomend your favorites versions of your favorites ballet. For example, my fav version of don q has to be the carlos acosta with the royal ballet in 2016 and my fav swan lake is the one with zhakarova and bolle. You know, that one cast and one production that just ✨hits different ✨ Love your channel, love this very demure and very mindfull video 💖💖💖

[@L.A.DolceVita]

This character analysis is definitely very demure and very mindful!💞

[@joshitamal6900]

This is so interesting!! I really loved the concept ❤😊

[@balletreign]

Thank you! Glad u had fun 😆😆

[@oceanelf2512]

I'm somewhat demure in the sense of being reserved and modest, not shy. I think I'm also quite mindful.

[@balletreign]

Very demure, very mindful ✨✨

[@oceanelf2512]

@@balletreign Hehe, neat!

[@nooripuss1]

This was so cute and entertaining! I agreed with you choices, especially Jemima Puddle Duck. She is in a class by herself! I, and I am very sure, many others, would treasure your commentary on Tales of Beatrix Potter. 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆❤❤❤❤❤

[@louiesalinas1140]

I think this is a wonderful channel. I always wanted to see a ballet, this channel is very informative and the two young ballerinas make it fun. Thank you for explaining the ballet. I can't wait to see a ballet. Brava, Brava !!!!

[@94hoi97]

Loved this so much omgg😅🙌

[@alysha-jy8ny]

Can you do a house tour pls🙏 your backgrounds are always so pretty :)

[@blythecooper7667]

The Total for Very Demure + Very Mindful is said approximately 315 times. 😁

[@balletreign]

NO WAY 😅😅 kudos and extra ballet nerd points to you ✨

[@oxoelfoxo]

i wanted to but hoped someone else would and spare me the trouble, haha. would you say around half for each?

[@blythecooper7667]

@@oxoelfoxo Yeah, just about! I got confusing a few times because they would both be talking and mention it. 😆

[@bencaspar]

Odile is NOT demure. Lower down, please 😂 Also: any chance you could do a demure video about costumes or something? DEMURE!

[@mariaclaral1]

Such an interesting character interpretation! ❤

[@picardyrose]

What do you think about Matthew Bourne? His Swan Lake is incredible. The white act is so, so beautiful.

[@kathygao]

How about Sugarplum Fairy? I feel like she's also SUPER DEMURE! But the fact that she's technically in Clara's imagination I don't know where to put her on the mindful axis. I'd also propose to add Like Water For Chocolate: Tita, Gertrudis, Pedro, and Lead Revolutionary. I have mixed feeling about the music and the choreo but I love those very interesting characters a lot!!! And that alcoholic doctor in Whipped Cream is probably the most NON-mindful character that there ever is

[@FireBird.37]

Ooohhh yes I can not wait for this 😂

[@alicefromcheshire]

This video was very demure and very mindful

[@balletreign]

🤌🏻✨

[@felicity1877]

I really like this video, you did a lot of creative effort! Very good ranking for Ali, he seems to be top of demure and mindful - definitely one of my favorite ballet characters of all time! Somehow I wish you would have also included more from other ballets, such like Nutcracker, LA Sylphide or Raymonda. But it's hard to choose, definitely (just wondering why so much The midsummer Night's dream). I think Medora could have been more mindful, she is my favorite ballet character and such a great "pirate's bride" (; And Odile, best bad girl of ballet (; So nice with all these pictures and clips!

[@annicarbone6643]

Grazie perché portate una cosa meravigliosa come la danza nelle case di tutti anche di quelle persone che non se ne sono mai interessate, lo fate con senso dello humour e con il sorriso. Bravissime, avvicinare le persone a questo mondo magico e bello è oggi più che mai davvero molto importante!

[@MANH1234-e7g]

This is such a fun vid! Suggestion for ur next video: since it’s nutcracker season and a lot of ppl r getting ready to perform the nutcracker, can u guys make a vid about all the things u need to pack in ur theatre bag? It’d help me a lot cuz I have no clue what to bring lol

[@emmalalaloo]

I think Myrtha is quite demure but very mindful, she's killing these men because of what happened to her and the other willis

[@Sarah-me4qi]

Why is swanilda so low in mindfulness ? She saved her guy in a very clever and funny way

[@ianaangelina783]

⋆⭒˚⋆very mindful very demure⋆⭒˚.⋆

[@christinashelby6083]

I knew it!! I KNEW Jemima had to be in there! So should we now start saying, "Very puddle, very duck" instead now?? :-D

[@NixG97]

I looked through the chapter names halfway through the vid and I was trying to guess who "THE LEGEND" would be. I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN 😂 Love your content; so funny and clever and a true treat for us ballet nerds!

[@balletreign]

😂😂

[@WhitKnight-mi5tx]

Very demure, very mindful of you, Ladies. 😊 Thanks!

[@therakeshkrishna]

Your videos are amazing as always :) I’d wanna see your opinions and thoughts on ravel’s daphnis et Chloe, although it’s not strictly a ballet, but a choreographic symphony :)

[@anxiety4daysmusingmedic891]

Ladies, what if, what if you did a collab with red flag guy?

[@rkhxrigcvl4193]

I love your videos!!!! Could you do an analysis of the nutracker?

[@vilmaunna]

All i want for christmas is you to start selling Ballet Reign tshirts;)) Would 100% buy and wear it at class

[@oxoelfoxo]

pretty sure i saw them in the merch shop! link in the description

[@vilmaunna]

@oxoelfoxo ups i was blind Thanks!

[@Danny-pd9yb]

Sometimes I feel like I am also learning English from your channel. Do you agree?

[@Danny-pd9yb]

What about the characters from the nutcracker? None of them are featured in this video

[@deborahbarrett2385]

DECK-er-us (decorous). Uh Romeo and/or Juliet demure?? Nah they were hot-to-go teens, and furthermore Romeo was into Rosaline at the beginning. But you two are adorable and exquisite!

[@widowrumstrypze9705]

That's not how one pronounces that, lol.

[@deborahbarrett2385]

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[@oceanelf2512]

I love Myrtha's music. Because of this, I gave her some big consequences for her actions and had her revive a man she had killed.

[@marylee8372]

Fun!

[@allysonsmith2465]

I love the analysis but respectfully have to disagree with the Gamzatti defense 😂 She forced a man into marrying her by using her power as a princess and then publicly murdered the woman he was in love with by psychologically manipulating her into believing that he was still in love with her. Should Nikiya have tried to attack her? No, not mindful in the slightest, but still😅

[@vicm6589]

Can someone tell me which version of Firebird is at 33:35 ?

[@Campanula.rapunculus]

😂🤭🙊😸 hehe cannot wait!

[@celesteaida48]

Gamzatti demure? Not the way I saw Maria Alexandrova interpreting her! She was anything but demure! MHO

[@soffyabad]

Think characters in ballet are good or bad, is like black or white. Cause music describes them, and their situation. Drosselmeyer for example, is kind of crazy, extravagant but good. He gave a beatiful dream to her niece Clara. But demure or mindfull, not so sure. But Oded was both, she was so shy, but mindful of her sad situation.

[@Satopi3104]

Kitri is less demure than swanhilda because she flirts with very manly men (bull fighters lol) and is sexy. Like she is an adult version of swanhilda.

[@Genshin_addict-e4n]

I'd say a bit, very. I'm a strict parent's child so I learnt Household Survival TM. But I do talk back sometimes

[@oxoelfoxo]

not very demure, which is fine but less mindful than i want to be!

[@annastewart8953]

I think the definition for mindful wasn't fixed throughout this project. Haha. I think my corners are: Giselle- very demure not mindful; Odette- max demure and mindful; Kitri- not demure very mindful; Tybalt- not demure nor mindful.

[@isabellalucia7820]

Good attempt to make ‘mindful’ mean something other than a pointless pop psychology phrase, but I wish you’d just gone with a ‘real’ word like niave, which it’s pretty much the definition you used. This is funny and beautifully argued, but why give a bad meme air time, even if it is going viral?

[@Mo3zito]

Lol why not make ballet harder and add math to it

[@oxoelfoxo]

well, counting's something all dancers do haha

[@Danny-pd9yb]

How? Math has always been my best subject at school. I usually get higher than 80% and sometimes even more than 90%. I am pretty comfortable with those basic algebra like using quadratic formula and such. I also have learnt calculus already

[@Mo3zito]

@Danny-pd9yb bro I'm a physics teacher, I see most people aren't good with numbers...was just a joke

[@meikochan94]

But Paquita?😢

[@Danny-pd9yb]

And nutcracker? It’s nutcracker season! The thing I feel like about paquita is that it has the best music, definitely the best one out of all ballets I knew of. However, I don’t really know much about the story/plot for paquita. I just love the many variations. The ballet with the best plot is probably coppelia I suppose, because the whole ballet is a fun scene and there is no tragedy. The nutcracker is the ballet which the plot does not follow the plot diagram. What do you think?

[@meikochan94]

@Danny-pd9yb yes we need part 2 I love the plot of Giselle! About comic ballets my favourite is La fille mal gardee. Actually it's a long time that I haven't seen the nutcracker, but according my memories the second act is all full little exhibitions

[@Danny-pd9yb]

@ I have just learnt about giselle 2 weeks ago. Basically giselle act 1 and giselle act 2 are 2 different stories. What do you feel like?

[@Danny-pd9yb]

@@meikochan94 what do you feel like about paquita

[@meikochan94]

@Danny-pd9yb mmm better different atmosphere/vibes