The Mistake Waltz: Dancer's Perspective (Mistakes We've ALL Made 😅😅)

[@MoonyAJ]

The Mistake Waltz is an absolute scream. It takes real skill to make deliberate "mistakes" look like real mistakes - the late comedienne Victoria Wood doing bad cruise ship singing is another great example - and these Paris Opera dancers NAIL IT! I laugh until I hurt at the slow moving of the arms into the correct position at the very end! Hilarious.

[@balletreign]

Glad u had a good laugh! Pieces like this are so wholesome and refreshing 😆😆

[@brigitinspace4272]

It's so fun to see professionals just get to engage in absolute chaos on stage

[@kamicokrolock]

This ballet always remind me of a lesson from my musical theater music director. "if you're gonna make a mistake, make a big loud mistake."

[@helenetrstrup4817]

Like sneezing in a tuba loud? 😆

[@jimrodarmel8512]

I had the same lesson! Along with reference to Ethel Merman!

[@gustavakerman2566]

@@helenetrstrup4817OH YES I KNOW THAT ONE

[@mendyviola]

That is hilarious! Never heard of this ballet before.

[@cpcoultertweedles7216]

If you’re making a mistake, do it confidently. That way you’ll fool at least some of the audience

[@annasahlstrom6109]

The Mistake Waltz is my kind of dance.

[@balletreign]

We love it 😂😂

[@karenjones9961]

Jerome Robbins was not only a genius choreographer, but he was able to create slapstick-spoof ballet. He was a comedian. In 2024 "The Concert" is STILL call 911 hilarious, and "The Mistake Waltz" in particular is still insane🤣🤣🤣)))! FYI, NYCB's and Covent Garden's men run faster than POB's men, if you can imagine that! I wish this ballet was revived more in the repertory, because today it's rarely staged. Thank you ladies for finally commenting on this piece!

[@mermaidopulence8539]

In the ballet that we are currently rehearsing for there are several times where I'm the front line girl. During one rehearsal I totally messed up and had the wrong hands but I fully committed to it. What made it even funnier is that I tried to slowly switch arms even though I was in the very front and the teacher clearly sees me but we all had a good laugh about it after the run through.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

Have you seen “Ballet Magnifique - Ballet gone bad”? It’s a contemporary version of classical ballet which starts off with something tiny wrong and it goes from there. It’s escalated by a jealous ballerina who thinks she should be centerstage instead of the girl who actually is centerstage. It is absolutely brilliant! It requires multiple viewings because there are a lot of details and there are considerably more dancers on stage at the same time than in this “mistake waltz.“ Thank you very much for explaining all the things that were wrong and how difficult it is to do it wrong on purpose. I wonder how often they had to practice folding themselves up or being in whatever awkward positions that the men were carrying them on and off the stage in! I had never heard of this ballet before and I’m so glad you made a video about it! Maybe someday you could do a video about this “Ballet Magnifique” - it’s from Texas!! Maybe you could even interview the choreographer or the dancers! The video is on KZbin but I can’t attach a link for some reason. Have a wonderful week! 🙏😄🧡🌺

[@MrsWheezer]

Love Ballet Magnifique. Watch it any time I need to laugh to the point of tears.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

@@MrsWheezer hooray! Here is a very quick and instant laugh-till-I-cry video from football. Knowledge of or interest in the sport is definitely not required. Understanding the language is also not required lol. Search “crazy commentator at bergkamp goal 1998”! Enjoy!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@hippolyte90]

Also one of the characters forgot to take off her glasses before going onstage😄

[@balletreign]

It’s a small detail but it adds so much to her character 🤣🤣

[@lazykbys]

It might be because it makes her stand out, but she is definitely my favorite.

[@cacklebarnacle15]

I've seen versions where almost all of them had some wardrobe mistake going on. 'Forgot' to remove legwarmers, wrong hair accessory or put it in wrong, slightly off colour clothes from the others etc.

[@jimrodarmel8512]

It's probably for the character, but I can imagine nowadays a dancer wearing glasses simply because they have to, some visual handicaps can't be corrected any other way, and it's unfair not to allow reasonable accommodation.

[@J.A.LewisWriter]

@@cacklebarnacle15 I wonder if anyone's ever done it with their false eyelashes glued on wrong.

[@mellieg.7543]

This dance and your commentary on it is hilarious. 😂 Probably the worst mistake i made as a dancer is the time I got dizzy during a performance and started facing downstage when everyone else was facing upstage. I still wake up in a cold sweat remembering that.

[@balletreign]

OMGGG 😂😂 we’ve def done that too… fun memories 😅😅. Thanks for watching, laughing, and sharing! ✨🫰🏻🫰🏻

[@iwatchtoomuchtwoset]

The Mistake Waltz brings back flashbacks to my previous end of term concerts. Last year when my dance school did a simplified production of Sleeping Beauty, and one girl fell over while en pointe in a fairy circle. I also had a "when do we get up?" moment when we were supposed to run off after the curtain came down, but I half stood up too soon (thankfully it was blackout and you couldn't see it on the recording).

[@mycroft16]

I will never EVER forget the first time I saw this. Absolutely damn near died watching it. I'm a pianist, but I've done my fair share of musicals, on stage and back stage, and in the pit. It's hard enough to do it all correct, but when doing it correct is making mistakes... that actually almost takes MORE skill because you're so trained to NOT make those mistakes. From pure raw chaos, which is what a lot of those big ensemble dance numbers can look like to the audience as dancers are passing through and between each other rapidly etc... to the wrong positions and the simultaneous glares. It's just unbelievably hilarious in such a serious, self-aware way that shouldn't work, but does.

[@gwenarvidsson5458]

I think this is one of my most enjoyed videos. It's been 50 years since I participated in ballet but I still remember the feelings. Brava

[@sharonkaczorowski8690]

I love Chopin…possibly my favorite composer, though it’s hard to chose. I’ve never seen this before…how hysterically funny! Takes a lot of skill to do that!

[@balletreign]

Paring Chopin’s refined music with absolutely unhinged choreo was the best decision 😂😂

[@hensku.3000]

I love the Mistake Waltz so much! We learned it at school and it’s the funniest choreo I’ve ever done. I was so inspired that later I taught it to my students as well and they loved it too. We need more comedic ballets like The Concert! 🙌💚

[@balletreign]

Awww that must have been so much fun handing down that experience to your students! Def need more wholesome comedy ballets 👏🏻👏🏻

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

“Ballet Magnifique - Ballet Gone Bad” is on KZbin for your viewing pleasure. I think it should have more exposure although it does have 1 million views in four years. ❤

[@birdmanben27]

I loved trying to spot the intersection of the French style dancers doing this American ballet!

[@balletreign]

They did SUCH a good job with this!! 🤣🤣

[@wingeddangernoodle]

Your comment about the running reminded me of my favorite moment in my recent stage career. I was in the ensemble of a production of Much Ado About Nothing (possibly Shakespeare's funniest play imo) and i was on stage "setting up for the masquerade". The bit that got the audience to laugh every night was me running off stage as fast as i could in my little heels in four layers of edwardian skirts, arms wheeling

[@lumischwartz]

YAY! "The Concert" by Jerome Robbins is one of my favorite ballet! This is so exciting! ❤

[@balletreign]

It’s gonna be fun! Can’t wait to see y’all at the premiere! ✨✨✨

[@cynthiat6505]

LOVE LOVE LOVE TheConcert!!!

[@lumischwartz]

Gah! I fell asleep before the premiere! 😅 ​ I love love this piece because it totally broadened my spectrum of ballet and that ballet CAN BE HILARIOUS when it's done right! It was groundbreaking for me because all the ballets I watched before this were all very serious performances 🫥 Before I encountered "Mistake Waltz," my spectrum of ballet was only limited to Swan Lake, Nutcracker, and Petrushka (traumatized my childhood! 😢 Love the music but VERY scared of the ballet) and Petrushka was the reason why I stopped broadening my ballet spectrum. 😂 But "The Concert" totally made a breakthrough and now I know several ballet works! And thanks to you girls, I can understand the story/techniques of many ballets better in order to appreciate all the hard work that goes into each performance. 🥰 Anyway, "The Concert" is very endearing for me because of CHOPIN'S (I ❤Chopin) music and I love how pianist is part of the performance 😂😂😂! I also LOVE Paris Opera Ballet version the most so I was so happy when you brought this version for your review! ❤❤❤ Thank you so much for reviewing and I wouldn't mind if you girls covered the whole performance~ 😉😂😂😂 @@balletreign

[@pardox28]

The entire The Concert is just so great throughout. The opening, the Mistake Waltz, the funny hats, and the umbrella groupings. I highly recommend watching the entire thing, especially when the entire thing isn't really that long.

[@personperson6827]

Do you have a link to it? I tried googling it, but only got clips

[@pardox28]

@@personperson6827 kzbin.info/www/bejne/laG2n5dmiJ5npZIsi=uJMw_HarbHBpt7lf

[@bedroombunny9529]

Making a mistake is one of those things that when you need to do it on purpose it is incredibly hard. It's like the Catch 22 of performances.

[@dorotaszupina6862]

Fantastic, we want more of this. Ballet doesn't need to be very serious.

[@vibinchair7005]

My favorite part is the intro and ending lmaooo 😂😂😂 Just the way everyone's chaotically running around is soo hilarious.

[@divab63]

Mistake Waltz is so hard! Jerome Robbins was a mastermind in creating inventive choreography. As a dancer you want to be in line and this choreography requires mistakes and owning it with a character. So much fun as an audience but very hard as a dancer.

[@AdirondackRuby]

😂😂😂...I have seen this ballet before (on KZbin, not live) ans adore it...but you two made me almost cry laughing...your commentary made it all even better! It is such a massive task to pretend to be bad at something you're good at!

[@samsignorelli]

In the marching arts, you're taught that if you make a mistake, make it like YOU'RE the one who's right...eve if you move early and freeze (story time coming), going back to your original set us distracting. In 1987 I was performing with an all-age drum & bugle corps. During rehearsal on a show day, we added a 4 count drum fill between "Moonlight Seranade" (our opening statement) and "Take the A Train." On the first note of "A Train" we'd step off....fur the 4 count fill, we stood still. All rehearsal, I nailed the change. Then came the competitive run....we finish the last chord of "Seranade" and on the drum fill I pivoted into my first "A Train" drill instead of waiting those 4 counts. As soon as my weight started to shift and I was committed to the pivot, I knew I was early....so on count 1 of the fill, I planted my left foot and froze in that step-off position for the remainder...continuing the drill when i was SUPPISED to. I'm sure I stuck out...but had I returned to the pre-pivot position, it would've been worse.

[@philzmusic8098]

I love it when y'all say "y'all" !

[@CheyenneSedai]

You guys should totally do an appreciation on the moment in Act 2 of Coppelia where she's messing with Dr. Coppelius for this series. Its sooo funny, and in a ballet that isn't meant to be a spoof in the way this or Alice is.

[@balletreign]

That part is sooo funnyyyy 😂😂 would def love to do more on Coppélia! 😆😆

[@WhitKnight-mi5tx]

Bravo! Thanks for the Saturday funnies!

[@balletreign]

Thanks for joining us this Saturday!! Glad we could make u smile 😆😆

[@sofiasilva1154]

Hay ballets divertimentos, y luego están estás piezas simplemente divertidas 😌🌹

[@user-sqab_sus5BREF]

Can’t wait to see this! I love watching your videos!❤

[@balletreign]

Eeeek can’t waittt 😆😆 so happy ur enjoying our channel!! 🫰🏻🫰🏻

[@ashleygriffin]

Love you!!! Would love a video about your dance backstory - where you trained, what you're doing professionally now, what your goals are, etc.

[@ladonnamartinez20]

Thank you so much for "taking this apart"!!! This is perhaps the 5th time I've watch the waltz over the years and STILL can't keep up. You gals are terrific💖💖

[@yukismith4518]

I’m laughing so much to this. A great way to spend a good Sunday. I will have to check out this ballet I love comedic stuff.

[@Mesanin3]

this is actually my favourite ballet piece. it's the one that made me want to start dancing even though i was about 25 when i first saw it.

[@sandragostanian8878]

We’ve all made mistakes during a performance, but when the mistake is part of acting, it is much more difficult to pull off! Great fun!

[@rulebritannia9136]

Wonderful ☺️funny 😊 Thank you so much for sharing with us ❤️❤️ You made my day 🌹🌹

[@balletreign]

Aww thank u!! So happy u enjoyed this ✨🫰🏻🫰🏻

[@lilliedoubleyou3865]

LOVE the mistake waltz! Great choice for topic. I’m so curious if this has ever been performed in Russia. For some reason the image of the Mariinsky or Bolshoi soloists performing this makes me giggle. It’s like the ultra elite having fun and clowning around.

[@karenjones9961]

I think the closest that the Russians have come to Robbins' "The Concert" is the Bolshoi's "The Bright Stream." Uliana Lopatkina loved to dance Spuck's "Grand Pas De Deux," and the Mariinsky audience loved it. In the Soviet era, the powers that were wouldn't have allowed ballets like these to be staged which didn't promote their ideology or propaganda. However, there were some exceptions. For example, at the 1st Moscow International Ballet Competition back in 1969, the young Mikhail Baryshnikov won the Gold medal with a spoof ballet created especially for him by Leonid Jacobson called "Vestris." Another example is "The Match," by Tom Schiling which was choreographed for Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev. It was a spoof ballet of a tennis match.

[@wurstbrat.]

Love the in-depth captioning! Means a lot to me.

[@vanaals]

Mistake Ballet is to dance what Coarse Acting is to theater. Love it.

[@giannahenle501]

my teacher always says "if youre gonna be wrong, be wrong with confidence" lol

[@georgie5986]

Hello...just subscribed. You are both well-spoken. Can't wait to follow more from y'all.

[@balletreign]

Aww thank u so much!! Welcome to the Ballet Nerds, we’re so happy to have u join us 🥳🥳

[@Lachesi]

This is why I love Les ballets Trockadero, they have this kind of comedy and when I saw them live I was crying from laughter

[@RetroMinnie87]

This is probably my absolute favorite ballet of this era. So good!

[@balletreign]

It’s SO good 🤣🤣

[@layashinodira7723]

This is my favorite ballet piece! I didn't know of the opening and ending! Made it even better!!

[@ook22]

whoever did the captions for this video is amazing and i thank you

[@virginiaf4117]

The captioning is so great!!!

[@juratea1475]

you are the two-set violin of the balley world! 🤩

[@MizukiUkitake]

As someone who doesn't know anything about ballet, I appreciate that the mistakes they make are ones anyone can recognize. It's not subtle mistakes like... i dunno, you're on the ball of your foot instead of your toes or whatever dancers nitpick about.

[@digifreak90]

I think another contributing factor on why it's so funny seeing dancers sprinting is their posture and stride.

[@kayradayana174]

Finally...the request we all NEEDED 😂 Probably this is my favorite vidro made by u guys ❤

[@tmalloy9]

Your commentary!! How many times do we all do all of these?

[@ThaisAlves-hg6wj]

I’m literally crying 😂😂😂

[@ryano.5149]

I don't know why the algorithm showed this to me today, but I'll roll with it! I took a few years of tap, and that's about the extent of my formal dance experience. ...a few years of tap, and one, disaster of an audition that I totally don't have ptsd from, where I was lied to by an instructor with a sense of humor and a need in that particular company for men with a pulse, apparently... You wanna talk about mistakes? Ho ho...mistakes were definitely made that day! Anyway! Ballet! Much respect!

[@FayeBusuttil]

Love all your vids 💕💕💕

[@balletreign]

Thank u sm! Glad u enjoy ✨✨

[@sashafarrington5318]

I love the “Spoof” pieces in performing arts. As well as this ballet, theater also has “The Play that Goes wrong” (which is partially interactive with the audience. 15/10 could not recommend more) and “Peter goes wrong” which is havent seen but is a similar concept. It takes so much skill ironically to get everything wrong on purpose. The artistry behind these professionals mistakes is amazing. “The Show Must Go On!”

[@federicofed4001]

Thanks for the Spanish subtitles

[@SKhan-iz7uy]

Would you please do an analysis of Ashton's Symphonic Variations? How it could be interpreted along with some pointers for approaching other abstract works.

[@waniska5324]

Thank you for sharing this hilarious ballet😅

[@mnemosyned]

The Mistake Waltz is so much fun 😄 I'd love to see your take on the Ballets Trockadero! I saw them live once and was in TEARS. One dancer "fell" off the stage at one point and let out a scream so loud and unexpected (and very deeply MALE) some people in the front row shrieked 🤣

[@ssjb7542]

Brava~ you two continue to capture my respect & admiration! Keep up the GREAT work. Thank YOU two- too!! [pun intended ]🤣🩰💖

[@balletreign]

thank you so muchhh 🤣🤣

[@nataliedunn5239]

I so needed this today! Thank you for making me, not only smile, but full on laugh (and thank you to the original dancers too!)

[@Neicorr]

Haven’t been happier. Thank you !

[@balletreign]

Aww 😆😆🫰🏻🫰🏻

[@softfunkylittledudes9974]

i used to be a hip hop dancer (ik not the same) but i was the WORST for this one section; i could always hit it in practice but any time we preformed i messed it up. i was supposed to do a spin and like ‘combat’ esc scene with a scene partner in the top left of the stage, and would ALWAYS spin the wrong way and do my combat in the bottom left. so me and the other girl both looked wrong because i could never get it right. i hope she’s doing better now, im no longer taking the program but she was always so lovely

[@cm5061]

This is really genuinely my favorite ballet piece of all time. It's so funny. God bles.

[@FireBird.37]

This video was HILARIOUS 😂😂😂 It gave me the idea of ya’ll doing multiple tutorial videos of different ballet variations! I love all of the variations and I feel that you two would produce very helpful tutorials 😊

[@elliewind7062]

PART TWO PLEASE

[@balletreign]

We did end on kind of a cliffhanger lol 😂😂

[@SolElarien]

@@balletreignTotally! I want more! ❤

[@kakumee]

So beautiful! Not a easy thing to do!

[@FireBird.37]

Hello again! This video was priceless 😂 it gave me the other idea of y’all doing another “ballet protagonist series” situation : stereotypes of ballet class! I would be so happy to see y’all do that!

[@Hellbender8574]

Im like the one in the 🤓 glasses

[@ButterflyBandit88]

Thanks for the commentary! Makes it a lot more understanding

[@ruffboiALT]

The one who doesn't mess up those arm movements but missed a whole separate section - she was just so FOCUSED on not messing up the arm pattern XD

[@G.H._bunny]

This was so fun 😂😅

[@MsZoedog66]

Not a dancer, but a former cello player here. Also did calisthenics and other performing arts stuff whilst at school. I remember well being told if you stuff it up just wing it and pretend you know what's going on! I was 13 and a friend and I played a cello recital in front of a crowded hall. I made the mistake of looking too closely at the audience and completely lost track of the music. From then on in I played the A string like A,A,A,A,A whilst my friend completed the piece. Lucky no-one but my friend seemed to notice too much. That was hilarious, and my first time playing the Mistake Recital. Also we did dance as part of a Girl Guides thing. I was always the kid who had to practise TWICE as much as other people and be taken aside by the teacher. We got there in the end, though. Bad nerves and stage fright are terrible things! ❤❤🎉🎉💃💃

[@danbrit9848]

Reminds me of my favorite play "opining night"

[@mcprevec]

Momentum momentum... the way to pick up anything with flair

[@balletreign]

If u didn’t do it with flair did u even do it at all? 😆😆

[@mcprevec]

@@balletreign thank you for the flair orthographic correction... Also... as a certified (i have proof) coocoo person you have to keep people guessing which crazy they will encounter... flair or understated

[@mosaiccanyon]

The slow arm change is one I've done!

[@julietan8219]

Thank you.😂

[@balletreign]

Thanks for coming! 😆😆

[@laurencebastien-dionne218]

Thank you SOOOO much for this video!!!!!!!!! it's an absolute lovely piece and must be so awesome to perform!

[@raphi486]

Omg that was so funny!

[@JamieBurkhardt-xg9yt]

You need to talk about the whole ballet!

[@jimrodarmel8512]

Most of these apply to other genres as well, although mostly performance issues. Regarding last minute changes: Oh no! George had an injury, who can fill in? I'm the only who can dance his part, but someone will have to cover mine! I can do yours, but we'll have to change the choreography because of my thing... Can Frieda and Willie change places? Then we can keep the choreography. OK, but remember I'm shorter so don't clobber me in the face! Alright, everybody remember your changes ... we're on! I once began a dance I wasn't even in, realized my mistake as we started to dance, and then ran offstage in character as if that was part of the choreography. Another time I lost my grip and dropped a staff in a choreographed beat pattern; my counterpart ad-libbed a bludgeoning attack (with maniacal laugh) as if we were in a fight. Oh also, my partner frequently reminds me of a choral performance I was in where the pianist jumped ahead to the variation that was supposed to be in the repeat, and the conductor was violently shaking his head, "No!" I'd like to see a performance sometime where I can see the comedy parts for the accompanist, I didn't know about those. I think I saw this very same recording before.

[@dmitrykim3096]

Not to offend anybody but you remind me of Botez sisters of the Ballet. Beautiful and funny girls talking about specific form of art.

[@susanmartin3762]

Do you ever show us videos of you two dancing? I'd love to see that and I'm sure others would as well.

[@AnnekeOosterink]

Oh boy, I remember a few mistakes, like the one dance where we had to start at a certain cue and then go in order, except the first person missed the cue and didn't start. Or the time my costume failed and I kind of slid off stage to rip off the pants that were falling down and slide back onto stage in just the tunic, just in time to catch my partner for the duet... 😅

[@terrijuanette486]

Bravo! Loved this. Thank you!

[@Iyashikei-t4u]

At my first performance I went the complete opposite way. What made it stand out even more is that I was the tallest by a large margin as well so even if I wasn't in the front people could spot me from a mile anyway.

[@SakuraSuzuki-yx7wc]

Who said that ballet is slow and boring???? I LOVE comedy in ballet!!!!

[@xiaotaotao7198]

Dark fact: The opening seems like murders running with the dead body, cleaning up the crime scene, staging the body as art..😅

[@helenetrstrup4817]

I am not a dancer, never have been. But I did rythmic gymnastics at school for a while, it was a mandatory thing for the girls. We had a performance that we did so many times that at one point... There was a small group of us towards the front to the left from the perspective of the audience. We were in perfect sync. But we had gotten a few steps ahead of ourselves. Our parents knew we were wrong because it was like the 3rd or 4th time they'd shown up to see us do the same thing all over again lol. I know my parents teased me for it, but had to admit that even if we were wrong, they wouldn't know if it'd been the first time they saw it. I made the mistake of following the lead of the people in front of me but when we spun around and saw what the people behind us were doing, we corrected ourselves and the rest of it went off with no further mistakes. Still a fun memory, though. 😆

[@nekograce7914]

Chopin is my favorite composer.

[@mycroft16]

That passion when wrong... I had a choir teacher once who said, if you don't know the right notes, sing louder.

[@altuum]

❤️❤️❤️

[@nah5491]

Such smart girls!!!

[@balletreign]

Haha thank u! Glad u came to play ✨🫰🏻

[@kelleyforeman]

This was so much fun! Thanks, girls!

[@guylikesbananas3986]

The captions LOL

[@christinatibbo1674]

I got stuck in a fold in the exit curtin once and was missing for most of the dance.

[@AnoJanJan]

Honestly, I was laughing so hard! I just don't know if it was from the dancers or your commentary 🤣🤣🤣

[@animeonfire1790]

Can't dance, never been interested in ballet, but this is hilarious 😂

[@EmL-kg5gn]

I used to do music and one time, on stage in front of an audience, I told the well-known COMPOSER of one of my pieces that it was my least favourite and that I hated the entire genre 😭😭😭 I did tell my teacher I didn’t want to do it but she made me and I had no idea who this guy was because I hadn’t listened to a word she told me about what I was meant to be doing (it was a demonstration, so I was supposed to demonstrate my pieces while he talked about them and also kindly gave me some advice). I imagine my teacher was as embarrassed as I was when I realised 💀

[@EmL-kg5gn]

As unhappy as I was about the whole thing I would NEVER have been so rude if I’d paid attention and realised the guy doing the demonstration was also the composer. I would’ve put much more effort into playing the piece well too 🤣 The worst part is I was high school age so it wasn’t even endearing childhood bluntness. It was just an absolute disaster.

[@AmyToney-Bolduc-to5op]

I always Exit the wrong way 🫣 In some recordings of the dances I’ve been in, you can see me start walking with passion and then flip on my heel and walk the other way 😭

[@familiaaffonso2661]

Soooo niceeee and fun😅🩰🤍

[@balletreign]

So glad u enjoyed this one! Thanks for watching 😆😆✨✨