Ballet Class - Center work 1 - Dutch National Ballet

[@DutchNatOperaBallet]

We love to hear your opinion and feedback! For example this centre class was requested by many of you. Let us know what you think and what other video's and classes you would like to see. For now, enjoy this class! Stay safe and keep on dancing❤️

[@dianakang7016]

Hi! Is it possible that you make a level-down centre as well? I love the video, but it's too hard for me :(

[@jillnash4146]

Wonderful, concise centre class - thank you. Please could you do a tutorial on pirouettes- particularly multiples. Thank you

[@federicafattore]

Thank you so much for sharing all of these beautiful barres and centre work!!! It feels like being there with you in your wonderful studios and they help so much to keep in shape during this though time. Also thank you from the bottom of my heart for the positive energy you are sending through classes, it really boosts one's mood when practicing alone at home. Live piano music is gorgeous too!!!

[@ichdenkesonstichbin]

Thank you so much. I woke up early to view this - so excited. I think you can still do some local pirouette drills (don't need to waltz across floor). Same for medium jump, e.g. front, side, back, side. Most who do this value the technical training, and aren't doing it as entertainment or fitness class, so I think no need to be too "dancy." But I love particularly beat exercises and hope you can continue in this direction and carry on with the class. This is the best series - clean technique and wise cues. And is Rex a former dancer? He marked with his hands, and he could anticipate. Looks like he has danced before.

[@amyoungil]

I was able to make a donation to your opera and ballet -- thank you so much for making these for us.

[@mariana_palazuelos]

I just noticed the pianist marking the exercise with this hands 😭 my heart melted

[@BZU3759]

I love the pianist's music!

[@aichi9825]

Live piano music is one of my favorite parts of class!

[@margarita898989]

@@BZU3759 high hi Bobby

[@agulhoncaroline8486]

Ernst you’re the best thing ever people in confinement and in love with ballet dance could have wished for. Thank you so much for making us practice our passion everyday with such rightness and creativity

[@annajimmink]

I am Marion Jimmink from Houten in Holland. I am at the age of 50 and I do ballet classes since almost 14 years. I miss my ballet classes so much. Our teacher, Helen Wilson, gave us the link to these videos to keep up the spirit at home. I am so happy with it! Thank you for posting it. 🌺✨🩰

[@jfsteilauthor]

I am 51 and I also adore these classes. Brings me back to my dancing days.

[@gracialafuente3991]

I haven't danced in 20 years. Im 55 and you brought me back to it. Lots of love from Spain.

[@jfsteilauthor]

I cannot tell you how much I love these classes. Ernst and Rex, you are saving me. The mere act of dancing changes everything. I am not a professional dancer, but for a moment at the bar, I can imagine... and the depression lifts.

[@elisavetgeorgoudidancescho8624]

Wonderful teacher, wondelful exercises! wonderful pianist! Thank you so much!!!

[@annabradshaw6932]

As a professional figure skater--and Ernst is just a delight--with a background in RAD ballet, this series has been extremely helpful in keeping my muscles malleable and strong while many ice rinks are closed again. I hope everyone is enjoying these classes as much as I am. Keep the love of performing alive and stay safe.

[@valentina.mend0za]

i keep coming back to this video, it’s fantastic for practicing at home and he’s such a lovely teacher!!

[@circlestheatricalproductio1772]

I'm a former professional dancer but haven't danced now for years these classes are just wonderful and have helped me fall in love with dancing again, Thank you so much!!

[@carolyfrank9402]

Muchas gracias gracias por compartir las clases! son estupendas!!

[@evitadean]

I was introduced to ballet at a very early age, continued for ten years but schools obligations made me quit. Having found these videos made me realise how much I love ballet and start all over ! I am a bit rusty but I am determined to go on my pointes again ! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge :)

[@DutchNatOperaBallet]

Amazing! Keep on trying and make your goals come true! We are happy to help you :)

[@jessiecarfora2075]

My life is a little more happy with your classes,tahnks and thanks and thanks again.From a little town on the heart of Tuscany,a big kiss for you

[@tinamccann8968]

Thank you for the excellent center! The combinations were great. They were well demonstrated and understood without a lot of explanation. The spotlight on Rex for the second half of the combination was great ---- he is a treasure. Ernst is pretty awesome too! :-)

[@VeronicaMartinez-xj1qn]

Thank you for sharing your time, experience and knowledge! I haven't done ballet in many years and I am enjoying every minute of it.

[@DutchNatOperaBallet]

Great! Keep on dancing :)

[@susanpeterson6765]

Thank you for sharing this class, I really loved the centre work. Well done.

[@DutchNatOperaBallet]

You are welcome! And enjoy our other classes too

[@lingoh814]

Ernst, you are an excellent teacher! And Rex, your playing is beautiful! You are both very inspiring, and a godsend to all of us. Thank you so much for your effort and generosity in bringing your wonderful ballet classes to us at home. And thank you, Dutch National Ballet, for sharing the both of them with us. 💖

[@kathleengoodwin6713]

Lovely centre class - going to look for a safe spot to do jumps, even if it’s out in the garden!

[@DustPuppyOI]

Thank you, Mr. Meisner. Thank you, Maestro Lebo. (It really makes such a difference to have live music.) Thank you to the Het Nationale Ballet and all the staff that produce all theses classes. These are gifts to us. Please continue to stay healthy and to stay safe.

[@Kris-bm4tt]

you two are literally keeping us sane sane right now. Doing one every day and I'm feeling great! Thank you and love from Colorado.

[@DutchNatOperaBallet]

How great to hear you are doing one every day Kris! Keep on the good work:)

[@yeok9891]

Great class as always! Since I quit ballet about 20 years ago I never tried to do this again. now I feel like I'm ready to just enjoy the ballet. Your class helps a lot. Thank you so much!

[@ginafobbe2210]

Still great after some years, now that my studio has technical problems, thanks Ernst and Rex

[@romybellalevinsohn8288]

I would love a strengthening class for pointe! I’ve been out of my pointe shoes for 2 months now and it would be great to have some barre exercises to just ease me back into it so that I’m not too shocked to go back on pointe when I am able to go back to class!

[@Sarah-fv3kb]

KZbinr Kathryn Morgan has a lot of good strengthening/targeted conditioning videos if you are interested.

[@jillnash4146]

Thank you Ernst and Rex! I love your classes and they are making lockdown a lot more bearable. Huge appreciation that you both keep showing up to do more 🙏🏼😊

[@Cristina-bo1ly]

Love seeing Mr Lobo dancing with his hands. Thank you gentlemen so much for doing this!

[@annshultz4085]

Thank you Ernest and Rex for making this series available!

[@MartaJoannaKlara]

That is really perfect short and condensed center. Thank you so much for doing this and answering for our requests ❤️ I love how Rex is repeating combinations with hands 👐

[@rowenayoung8228]

Beautiful classes Ernst, Rex. Loving the trackie, and bringing a Dutch presence into my home, too. Much love.

[@christinecash115]

Thank you so much for these classes. I am not a ballerina, but I am a figure skater and these classes have made me feel like I am back at home training even if it is in a different format. Thank you for your positivity and kindness as a teacher! With love from Canada.

[@kathleengoodwin6713]

Just a pleasure to have such beautiful music and exercises to keep my spirits up! Thank you

[@xiaoyuliu7855]

Thank you for adding the center class! As always, thoughtfully designed. Your classes are one of the few things I can look forward to in this difficult time. Thank you for helping us getting through this through dancing and beautiful music.

[@elizabethgreen8596]

Loving Rex alot. Please could you show the other side just a bit more, so many years since I have danced at this level. Thank you I have improved so much. Loving Ernst too. Big love from the UK

[@ashleylindsaysearlesspirit2375]

Thank you so much Ernst and Rex! I am a dancer in Philadelphia PA and am so grateful to have your beautiful work during this crazy quarantine. It's helping to keep my body, mind and spirit healthy. Please keep it up!!

[@professora1973]

Dear Ernst and Rex, Thank you so very much for providing this valuable resource to dancers. I am an amateur, older dancer, but ballet keeps me going when my stressful job and the general pressures of life become too much. Today, I did not feel much like dancing, but after making myself put on my slippers and roll up my carpet, I cued up one of your barre classes, and by the time I was done with that, between the beautiful music and the challenging choreography,I felt like taking center as well. It's not an exaggeration to say it made my day. That little coupe exercise is a devil, and I'll be working on it for days to come! So bless you, and stay safe and healthy.

[@Annacosperder]

Thank you again so so much! Really appreciate the center exercises! I’m visiting Colorado and finally have a floor for jumps! Feels very good. Thank you thank you thank you

[@DutchNatOperaBallet]

Thank you too for joining!

[@katiekirwan1219]

Thank you to both of you. Rex, what a gift to have live music! Thank you both for the breath of fresh air here from AZ.

[@saskiatindle5031]

Such a lovely calm ballet master and wonderful pianist!!!

[@cjaquay29]

Thank you, Ernst! Thank you Rex. If you find a chance/time if you could include perhaps exercises one can do after barre + center that continues to work on turnout and the lengthening of the leg + extension. Thank you for these videos they've become ritual and sacred.

[@rainbows.and.daisies]

Really amazing thank you so so much! Loved that it was very suitable for those of us ladies trying to maintain our centre work with pointe shoes. Wishing you two and your crew health and safety.

[@romybellalevinsohn8288]

Been looking for a good centre practice to add with your barres I have been following! Thank you so much for this! Would love some pirouettes! I just altered some of the exercises in the centre because I wanted to spin!! Can not wait for more centre practice! 🩰

[@tamaraaranguren7415]

thank you Maestro ...from Argentina. Beautifull class and i feel your passion for teach in the classroom

[@leaf2576]

It's two years after this was posted for covid, but these videos are so amazing for me as a college student with a busy schedule. It's a dream come true that I can still do ballet in my little bits of spare time! Thank you for making these delightful videos

[@Balletmum]

Thank you so much for making this happen! Thank you, Ernst, for your beautiful demonstration of the epaulement. Especially for this Centre work, I appreciated the occasional small windows showing the entire picture of him demonstrating the movement while the bigger, main screen might be focusing on something else, many times his footwork. I also appreciated your obvious consideration of the "world peace" by reminding us to be mindful of our neighbors downstairs! Rex, your selection for the final port de bras, "Over the Rainbow" was perfect! Music makes a huge difference, always. Again and again, I thank you all, artistic team and technical team, for such a gift of love and caring in such a beautiful form!

[@woneugene313]

Beautiful exercises. Thank you always😊👍

[@beatrizmartins2570]

What a treat , Ernst, in this perplexing times, to have a centre exercise from you. Many thanks keeping this up and offering regular barres to keep us going!

[@patrirobaina7340]

Thank you so much!I really love the class , the energy, the music!!It´s a pleasure having this oportunity. Thank you, Rex, Ernst and all the people that make this possible.

[@georgijskomarovs4995]

Thanks a lot from Latvia! Ernst, Rex you are brilliant! Great classes!

[@stephanieparis4131]

Thanks for both of you. It's great !!!

[@fionaperry5545]

What a wonderful duo - you go together like bread and butter! Loving the teaching and the piano playing to match the movements. Thank you both for these wonderful classes.

[@maylisatik7647]

I love your épaulements and your directions changing, even in a small space, it's so dancing and motivating... Great workouts!!! I'm trying them on pointe too...

[@stephanieshapso293]

Awesome ! So excited to do this center work ! My living space is the lowest level so I'm all good ! Thank you so much for sharing your gifts !

[@dr.katherinemezurphd6257]

great center please do it again and could we repeat some of the combinations with Rex playing again? thank you! from California.

[@jonellenel7871]

This is so lovely and uplifting. I love everything about these classes.

[@milenasalazar7286]

OMG! Thank you very much guys!!! You are my best friends in these last days, Mr. Ernst I love you so much haha Please, don't stop these videos!

[@pollyflaviano1325]

I've only just discovered your center work videos after four weeks of barre only. Thank you Ernst and Rex for these wonderful classes, while we desperately await our ballet studios to reopen. Love and hugs from Quebec city.

[@MsBelline]

Élégance, gentillesse , générosité, c’est Ernst !!

[@sarahbuscaino9411]

I was so happy to see a center posted today! Just perfect and very spatially aware. I would love a little pirouette combo also if you have time!! I know space is limited, but maybe we can make it work! Thanks again!

[@danceableandloveable]

Keep up these ballet classes I’m loving it!

[@Hellbender8574]

Thank you for creating this center class portion! I was waiting eagerly for this one. If you create another center, could you please include turns as well? Thank you again to the entire team at the Dutch National Ballet for giving the world the gift of dance.

[@naomiholkeboer2853]

Thank you for class!

[@sheahuang]

Thank you for a superbly instructed class. I always forward to your classes. Thank you for providing these in this time of uncertainty.

[@elenatroisfontaines1922]

You make me love dancing in my home each time a bit more thanks to your happy mood and perfect technique

[@castesn]

Thank you so much for sharing all this joy and energy with us. And thank you for the center work, we also need to move more than at the barre. I feel so amased to be ' teached' by such a wonderful professor. And the piano, waouh: wonderful. Many many thanks!

[@corpoealmadebailarina]

Everything is perfect! Excellent pianist and teacher. Thank you so much for sharing this with us! Stay safe!

[@joebloggs619]

Excellent instruction. After moving back to remote country Australia where I grew up, from the big city where I loved doing ballet class and other arts, I despaired of ever doing ballet again because there is vast flat open spaces here, but nobody does ballet in the bush, but the kangaroos can do very good leaps and bounds.... (I learned ballet from my European immigrant parents who just knew the basic steps). But I kept my old ballet shoes for some irrational reason, though there was no hope of ever being able to do it again. I'm glad Idid because this has inspired me to dustthem down, get back into physical shape, find a place where locals won't think I'm crazy doing such things and try to do it using these great instructional videos. The classical piano music is great. I like modern music, too, but for modern style dance, not classical ballet class. And I prefer a male instructor but seeing the good female dancers demonstrating the feminine moves.

[@marciayomura5277]

I was so in need of a center!! Thank you very much!! It’s just perfect! Love these two!

[@lrees7636]

What a blessing and gift you bring to us during this unprecedented time. I love all your instructions and also the beautiful piano work by Rex 👏❤️.

[@isabellagori7865]

Rex is amazing 😊 thank you for this! I am self-training for being a ballet pianist and this is so helpful!

[@lilyxu1446]

It is an amazing ballet class, and I take this class at least once a week. Thank you very much!

[@elizasgaify]

Ernst and Rex, Thank you so much for adding a centre exercise, and one that is doable for a intermediate adult student. Thank you, thank you, thank you 😊 You guys are the best!!!

[@erickapatriciajurado7277]

Muchas gracias ❤❤❤🤗🤗🤗

[@elenaretana3530]

Thank you so much Ernest for your beautiful classes and Rex for de amazing music!! You make me stay motivated with my training through this difficult times❤

[@levimazie2223]

I joy loved your class the centre work is quite challenging but I do need this . I love barre work because I have natural turnout so great to joine you . long covid has weakened me love you .God bless all teachers.

[@magrittepearl9469]

Thank you so much for the brilliant centre class. Your instructions are so clear and the level is challenging without being impossible!

[@mvugt]

thanks so much for now offering a center class! It is very helpful. I haven't done the full class yet because I did not have time since I was doing the barre from last week. This format totally works for me!

[@rayleighvendt8613]

Thank you thank you so much! Great Center, and I love your Barres as well. So happy to have a class that keeps moving but is still challenging!

[@SinaBe99]

Your online class was a recommendation of our trainer and what shall I say? Your are both such a treasure in this special time. Thank you so much for your work! Love & hugs from Germany

[@marcelaleal2514]

Loved the barres and this center is just as awesome! Thank you so much for doing this for us, so we can keep up at home! Love from Brazil!

[@feldib2809]

Thank you so much !! We all love your classes . Greetings from Munich

[@MariaGomez-oj1hq]

gracias! gracias! gracias! ❤️

[@Simmikin]

Thanks Ernst and Rex, what an excellent team! Wonderful classes to keep us moving well in Australia 🇦🇺 Love the addition of a short centre 🙏🏻 🩰

[@victoriab.5422]

I absolutely love your classes. Thank you for making it available to the general public. I hope you will continue the classes after the quarantine is over.

[@deedee1364]

Hellow Rex, thank u for the beautiful music! ❤

[@anavarela4378]

The Best Ballet Barre on the internet> THE BEST INDEED... THANKS Ernst and your great pianist Rex Lobo

[@m.antonietavazquezflamenco389]

Wonderful. Thank you so much.

[@monbiblioteca2295]

Great centre class. Complete and good for balance. I love jumps! I can do batterie en place on a yoga mat and it works for joints and neighbours too Please record some more centre works as barre too. Thank you!

[@IsarahMusic]

Fantastic! I love it! Thank you so much, you are making my "STAY HOME" time an opportunity to improve and enjoy :) Every exercise is clear. Thank also to Rex, he plays perfectly.

[@claudiap9006]

What a beautiful ballet class! Between Monday and Friday I repeat your beautiful lessons to improve myself, so that I can perform your next lessons better. Music makes me fly high, forgetting this difficult situation. Thanks so much again 💙💙💙

[@DasDuken]

Thank you so much for the centre work. I appreciated that it seemed to be designed for people with limited space. Some of us with tiny rooms have had to get creative with using our spaces.

[@erihan]

Thank you so much for the classes. I love them and I am inspired each morning to keep working. Merci!

[@milagrosgaitan2199]

Me encantan las clases! Los sigo desde Buenos Aires. 😊

[@technonine7586]

Timestamps since I couldnt find any in the first 50 ish comments: 0:00 Introduction 1:07 slow Tendu - Intro 2:00 slow Tendu - Exercise 2:50 Jeté - Intro 3:30 Jeté - Exercise 4:10 Adagio - Intro 6:02 Adagio - Exercise 8:28 Just To Find Our Balance - Intro 9:23 Balance - Exercise 11:14 Grand Battement - Intro 12:00 Grand Battement - Exercise 12:45 Little Jumps - Intro 13:20 Little jumps - Exercise 14:00 Échappé - Intro 14:51 Échappé - Exercise 15:22 Assemblé - Intro 15:54 Assemblé - Exercise 16:15 Entrechat - Intro 16:48 Entrechat - Exercise 17:18 Port De Bras Finish

[@lgomez3268]

Thank you for another great class. I love the simplicity but well thought combinations. That’s perfect to work out at home.

[@lara6944]

amazing, this is the best center class for begginners here in youtube. Because is tricky, but the steps are kind of familiar, its putting them together that is the challenge here. The dynamic, I really felt like dancing, and for the first time in these youtube videos! Being able to accomplish the moves with some repetition is awesome, for me this is a special class, a gem Cant tank you enough

[@DutchNatOperaBallet]

Wow Lara, we can't thank YOU enough for dancing with us!

[@sophiacohen4015]

Amazing! Could you post more center classes?

[@DutchNatOperaBallet]

We hope in the future!

[@jackiearnaud]

Thank you Ernst and Rex! I love your classes I am From Venezuela hope one day will be there to visit you and the company!!!!

[@sharingartmovement]

Great! Yes, I could apply that in my tiny space, feeling big! Thank you Ernst and Rex!

[@liciachua]

wow! i love this center exercises!! thank you so much National Opera & Ballet for making this possible ❤️

[@jocelynvillafan4529]

Thanks for the center work. I needed, in fact I need a lot of classes. Your classes are so beautiful. Thanks a lot and take care. Hugs from Mexico

[@kebailarina]

Wonderful teacher, wonderful pianist! I’m loving classes! Thank you! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻