pointe shoe fitter reacts to Ballet TIK Tok 46

[@L1teralsatan]

Winter color guard is where the color guard is by themselves instead of with the whole marching band!! It's a lot of dancing and throwing things 😂

[@heathermathews1872]

And, unsurprisingly, new and exciting injuries. Ah, the weird old days.

[@AA-mm6wu]

@@heathermathews1872Ah yes, I remember a girl during a competition that blew both of her knees out. Good times. 😆

[@heathermathews1872]

@AA-mm6wu wow. That's bad. We did have a rifle who took said implement to her head in competition. Poor thing tucked and marched the rest of the show.

[@SUMMERCO15]

I love doing winter gaurd

[@C-SD]

​@@heathermathews1872 I miss doing color guard. But had a couple doozies. Hit myself in the face with the bottom stopper of my pole because I missed a catch. Went down like a bag of rocks, and thought I'd broken my cheekbone. This other one is hard to explain. I was standing about 2 feet away from another member. We were leaving so she had it rolled up and she was just holding it while we talked. She let go, it smacked me on the eye and nose. It didn't seem that bad, then my nose started bleeding. For an hour and a half. 🤦‍♀️ Got up and got myself napkins and some ice. After about 45 minutes and it hadn't even really slowed so I said that I should go to the er. Our nurse drove me to a upmc urgent care that wouldn't accept my upmc insurance. I have no f'cking idea why. They honestly felt bad. By the time I got to an er that would see me and waited in the waiting room, my nose had stopped. Over an hour and a half later. I'm pretty sure I broke my nose because it moved, but the er doc was really dismissive. And it felt like she hardly tapped it. 🤷‍♀️

[@kballet2001]

The small box was on Ekaterina Maximova of the Bolshoi! She wanted the narrowest possible platform possible and she also cut down the vamp and then darned it to help her have support and the ability to really articulate her foot. When she taught she recommended very tapered shoes to her students too. This is a clip I think of her rehearsing with her husband!

[@serenafardin7441]

The commentary is exactly what they do with ice skating and definitely is useful and does not disturb

[@leahavendano4194]

True, but its still better if they dont commend during the actuall skate. Or at least not the whole time, because otherwise you can't hear the music. But i think the replays are always really helpful and you can enjoy the sport- and the Artistic side. (I am sorry for any mistakes. English is not my first language and autocorrect isn't helping😅)

[@serenafardin7441]

@@leahavendano4194 do not worry about mistakes I have the same problem as there is no auto correct on my keyboard (it trusts in me too much ha ha ha ) . Yes I agree with you. Commentary is useful but it is not like ski or hockey. In ice skating the music is an important part of the show so sometimes it would be nice to hear it. In ballet is the same . It must be an added value with no penalty to the show.

[@AshleyGraceLee]

Josephine: Nothing should ever happen at 8 am Me: *cries in highschool*

[@ericvansickle4305]

Try having Jazz Band rehearsals at 7 a.m. three days a week.

[@kriseaf]

WINTERGUARD!! It's flag-twirling (and rifles and sabers) set to music and you compete against other teams! They're judged on things like dance and artistry, but also technical skills with the equipment, and it's all done indoors (because it's winter). Just picture the flag twirlers from a marching band and then subtract the marching band. :)

[@EmmaThw]

that seems like it would be so chaotic from beginning to end.. amazing

[@Moongirl12121]

Omg I hope more ppl tag her in winterguard stuff that would be SO AWESOME if she could react to some of the Amazing shows I've seen! I tried out to be in winterguard in my high school but didn't make it bc I have Zero background in dance

[@alliebean3235]

i feel like the ballet commentary could be cool for something like an olympic style ballet competition - like figure skating, or gymnastics!

[@helenanilsson5666]

Oh, that would be a cool event to "lure" people who are unfamiliar with the art into enjoying ballet shows. Keep the fancy outfits and the music, but tone down the "narrative" of the ballet in favor of letting the dancers just show off complex moves. That was new audiences don't have to split their attention between following the plot and keeping track of what the dancers are doing with their feet, and they'll get expert commentators letting them know when something remarkable happens. I've never done ballet myself, and I had watched a grand total of one (1) whole ballet on TV a few years before youtube's algorithm for some reason drowned me in Pointe Show videos. As I remember it the split attention between "where are we in the story/how have they adapted the story for the show" and "is this to show off technique?" was my greatest headache watching a performance for the first time.

[@maryinsky]

Josephine! Jennifer here--that Russian dancer of 50 yrs ago was Ekaterina Maximova, the exact dancer whose shoes in my collection I showed you, and you put a quarter on the tip to show how small the platform is! Ballet feet used to come to a point, literally.

[@deserabailey8500]

1:18 OMG so true!!! LOL I was in colorguard for 7 years, winterguard for 4 years then coached for 3 years after that! hahaha thats so good!

[@deserabailey8500]

I always equate it to rhythmic gymnastics, but with all different dance genres and throwing equipment!

[@elizzy8754]

The ballerina in the pointe shoes with a tiny platform is Ekaterina Maximova - an exquisite virtuoso of ballet. She is being coached by her husband, Vladimir Vasiliev, another virtuoso performer.

[@kballet2001]

Yes! She is so beautiful the clip is from 1972

[@juliatucker4562]

As a rhythmic gymnast, we have summer camp practices five times a week starting at 8am. By 2 pm when practice ends it feels like 10pm 🤣 (But literally amazing love morning practice)

[@liv-life904]

as a fellow rhythmic gymnast, i love afternoon practices on the weekends because i still get to sleep in and not have to wake up at 6am for gymnastics lol. i still love it tho and i dont want to quit 🥰

[@jw8223]

I LOVE colorguard/winterguard!!! It’s so fun!! It’s a mix of dance and spinning and tossing things-6 ft poles with flags on one end, rifles, sabers, and any other thing you can spin or toss. 😅 it’s like baton twirling but WAY more intense! In the fall, colorguards perform with the marching bands at football games and competitions. In the winter, they perform inside on basketball courts at their own competitions.

[@Poppy_love59]

Your Baby is sooo Beautiful, happy times little fella !

[@KMfromDK]

My toes hurt just from watching the last ones!

[@gisselle.quinones]

It actually doesn’t hurt my feet

[@sebumpostmortem]

Types of hands in ballet: Alita de pollo (flojera): Little chicken wing (weakness, idleness, looseness). Amor y paz: Love & ☮️. El corazón: The heart. No respiro: I don' t breathe (uptight). 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

[@Niekra]

Hi Josphine, Winterguard/Color Guard/Flag Team. It's a school dance troupe, usually high school that performs in the Fall with the marching band. Performing parades and the field shows you see during half time at foot ball games. It consists of dance, which can be a variety of ballet, jazz, contemporary (sometimes more depending on your coach) and we have a equipment like flags, sabers and rifles. Winterguard is performed in well the winter time, which is a solo competition season. Take the same idea of a field show, but just compress it down to just the guard itself. I did all 4 years of high school in winterguard/Color Guard. I was also the only one in my team that had years of dance experience and trained in pointe work. So I got to do my final season on pointe.

[@Uma_The_Frog]

The color guard one is so true😂 all they are missing is the word glitter😂

[@elRaccoonsitoL]

5:00 you should collab with sofie dossi! she was the one holding her up, she’s a contortionist but i didn’t even know she was on pointe, it would be very cool if you could fit her!

[@Pink_Aqua]

My color guard self absolutely FREAKED OUT when I saw a Winterguard video 😍

[@SimpleDesertRose]

Dio!❤❤❤😍😍😍 I'm feeling the dancer at 8 am right now. Like sorry what? My brain isn't fully awake yet. It all sounds like gibberish to me.

[@kailara3342]

2:36 Yes bourré means stuffed (also means drunk) but I don't think that's where the name of that move come from. There's a folkloric dance called Bourrée, it makes more sense to come from the this I think. I don't do ballet but from what I can see it also kinda look alike, the base of the bourrée dance is little steps with your feet not too far from each other.

[@madeleine61509]

I was going to say, French isn't my first language, but living in France, I feel like drunk/wasted is the more common use of that word.

[@ceciliacalvin263]

Please bring back the pointe shoe fittings. You can do both on one channel. I don’t want to go another platform to watch them.

[@MiaWang-zc6lb]

3:27 the “right ahbabababa bababa got me laughing so hard ❤😂

[@pennyhosmer6206]

Josephine I love your videos so much!! I got my pointe shoes about a year ago and have been working hard! Your videos bring me so much joy and encourage me to keep dancing!

[@br6480]

Peyton Manning calling the play as the 0800 ballet instructor was priceless🤣🤣🤣

[@goldengirlslife]

I learned to dance on a small platform like that. And our toe joints were not overstretched. We had to train our arch differently.

[@Heyhicarolina]

Actually, the word "bourrée" doesn't refer to the meaning "stuffed" or "filled" but to "la bourrée", a type of traditional dance from Auvergne, in France and danced in many regions of the country, which evolved at the French court and eventually influenced the development of ballet. I had to look up the ethymology of the word to make sense of it because the name "pas de bourrée" never made any sense to me even though I am a francophone. I thought at first that it meant that it was a "full step" to fill the music and space, but one hypothesis I read is that it comes from the old meaning of the word "to beat, to mistreat" because the dancers were beating up the ground as they danced.

[@IsabellaSabala]

One, I LOVE THE NUTCRACKER MUSIC The one where it was "what my ballet teacher sounds like at 8am" that's what my ballet teachers sound like at like 7pm soooo... lol Welp that's all I got for this video. Can't wait for the next!

[@stinks7065]

Honestly I think ballet with commentary would be super cool! I know very little about ballet, I've seen a few modern ballet performances and I like to watch ballet related videos online but other than that I have no context for how difficult something is, for example. I just look at the dancers like "woahhh so cool and athletic". I compare the ballet class content itself to martial arts a lot though , I've done martial arts for about a decade and the training attitudes are very similar. And with taekwondo there's also the importance of being very flexible to achieve those high kicks!

[@kballet2001]

I love the commentary I would subscribe to a channel that does this for full length ballets. It’s like having a buddy to watch with

[@amyhull754]

Love you so much!!! Your little guy is SO dear!

[@balletmeli]

❤😂 8am class. ❤ Spanish words parts. 😮 those little girls in class.

[@EMCM8891]

The life catchups….in gymnastics that happens while putting on grips and standing around the chalk bowl before uneven bars, while the coach is yelling to hurry is up

[@sumincheon7382]

lol the "foot massager" from the 2nd tiktok is actually for your calves, you squeeze your calves into that ring and it compresses (massages) your calves as you walk/ do flex

[@bindak]

IIRC, there used to be a Saturday morning 7:30a ballet class at Maryland Youth Ballet - and it was a full class. It was particularly painful because I was coming from California

[@jamielewis7015]

"Nothing should happen at 8 am" cries in NURSE😭

[@EmmaCOLONGO]

dio is so pretty like his mom

[@valdelhierro9092]

Early no way! I love u btw I’ve watched all of you videos who else love Josephine!!❤❤

[@sheHerTheyThem]

Mum of 3 colour guard and winter guard daughters! And they perform with the band ! Look at half time shows at football games where the bands perform, there is where colour guard is, winter guard season is when they compete without the band .

[@C-SD]

You must be broke and exhausted a lot. ❤

[@sheHerTheyThem]

@C-SD I was, especially because my son,who was in highschool the same time his two oldest sisters were was also in band, and he was doing orchestra during winter season, but alas my babies are grown,I'm now a Noni to 11 and grandnoni to 1. I miss those days, all three of my daughters were captains of their teams and I have delicious memories of having girls and boys coming to my house to get ready,as a single mum I was the band/ colour guard "fun" mom. We hosted many a slumber party, and tpd many a band and colour guard instructors house😂😂

[@limlianhui9462]

Nothing should start before 8am.. School starts at 6 or 7am in a lot of places in South East Asia. So that the school buildings can be used for 2 sessions and parents could send and fetch their kids before and after work and on their lunch breaks. Always shocks Westerners.. but we are used to it. Most of us get up at 5am anyway to pray before starting the day.

[@paigeandjuliavlogs]

No way! The girl walking on her toes dances at my studio!!

[@FleaÉire]

Hi baby Dio! I love him just being handed over 😂💜✨

[@howdy_partner1]

Joséphine is such a vibe. I love watching these videos keep going til we reach 💯💪!

[@SandrA-hr5zk]

I was in the colorguard in high school. I remember going to WGI in Ohio to compete. Our guard had over 50 members, so we had two teams. An advance group and one mostly for freshmen that had no skills coming into it. Both our instructors were part of an independent world class group that competed as well. Don't forget, there are percussion lines as well for guard groups.

[@25yellowroses10]

2:55 it's actually giving figure skating with commentary vibes🤣🤣

[@ghkdwls360]

I love the bear decals on the wall!

[@kballet2001]

Dio is so cute I can’t believe he is standing up!!! Is he saying words yet he sounded like he repeated what you said!!!

[@nezuko-v4u]

the first one was funny and cute at the same time lol 😂💗

[@decodolly1535]

As much as I love watching dance, the little girl at 4:25 is exactly who I would have been if my parents had had enough spare income to put me into dance classes!

[@PurpleandWhiteStories]

Winter guard! First group I saw did their routine to Carol of the Bells. I think it was the Trans Siberian Orchestra version. It's been awhile. I was in Winter Percussion. Similar to guard, it's all the percussion intruments. There's a time limit on the music, so the creativity is there.

[@zairamcbernal7229]

I recently started on ballet, as a 33 year old, on sundays at 7am...and yep it's accurate, its hard but totally worth it.

[@gisselle.quinones]

Thank you for featuring me 🫶🏽

[@VanessaChats]

Another YTer deconstructed (I think that's the word) a scene in the Nutcracker. She gave the BTS and shared a lot of what is happening, the experience of the dancer/s, etc and I am now like... wow I need to watch that performance now!

[@alinekaiper293]

I swear I was like "wheres the new vid??" Went to the channel and nothing, 2 seconds later came the notification

[@FreshSalad645]

"Pas de bourrée" comes from music, but in modern French "bourré" can mean "stuffed" like "la voiture est bourrée d'affaires" (the car is stuffed with stuff) OR it can mean DRUNK. So "pas de bourrée" can also say "walking like a drunk" ahaha

[@melissar2164]

When Dio came in, Tiktok didn't exist anymore, he was way too cute for me not to be 100% concentrated on him. I feel like he's already grown up so much! Btw I'm french and I must say, if we really needed to translate ballet terminology into moves, a lot of the movements would be very different. And "bourré" can also mean drunk, just saying. Josephine, you talk about starting at 8 but some of my university clases start at 7:45, must say it's quite challenging, those classes shouldn't exist. Loved the video!

[@doublescorpions]

1. Love the Lego flowers. I have the same. 2. They could rent out earbuds with ballet interpretations like they do at museums and exhibits. S.

[@lbazemore585]

Have you seen the new 3-D printed point shoes yet? Could you do a video about how they are created, size, etc.?

[@shyeahright]

For the one black & white dancer, I just kept clawing at my face going “Why is it a v? Why is it a v?? WHY IS IT A V?!??” Omg how did she even do that??

[@ritawing1064]

I call modern platforms "oil-rigs", they're so huge!

[@DragonMoon159]

Me watching this to get into ballet mood because i have a performance later

[@niloofarsafary]

I want her to react to those "modern pointe shoes" so bad

[@AbigailSullivan-jd4nx]

not me literally being in my schools winter guard

[@kballet2001]

I have a class at 7am I can take- I made it to it twice. Accurate 😭😆

[@justinchristoph3725]

I personally like the commentary when I watch Classic Tetris Monthly on KZbin.

[@LifeWithZoeeeee]

THE WII MUSIC IN THE BACK

[@caitlinscheib9919]

Petition to have Josephine react to winter guard next

[@ToastontheEastCoast]

The commentary actually made me think of hearing commentary during competetive figure skating. It would actually be pretty comparative to what commentary would sound like with ballet, I think.

[@Cent4man]

I learned on those super narrow point shoes

[@jessaglenny]

It's so distressing to see these very young girls being forced to stand on their toe knuckles. They are being put at risk of future osteoarthritis and joint dislocations. Great ballet feet = lots of strengthening exercises.

[@RyanGerling-k9x]

I remember watching her videos of ballet reaction 7 or 10 or something

[@Amaranthyne]

Girl: phone, headphones, coat, money. F dat shh, we out ✌️

[@loverlyredhead]

The reason I didn't take ballet 2 in college was because ballet 1 was at 8 am and I didn't need it (for my minor), so I dropped it. I couldn't hang with ballet at 8 am.

[@serenafardin7441]

I will have a tatoo saying "nothing should happen at 8 o'clock "

[@poyznelf]

ballet casting should totally be a thing

[@angryface01]

AHHHH! STAHP THAAAAAT! Look, do you want to dance for five hot seconds…. Or for the rest of your life? STOP FORCING YOUNG GIRLS TO FORCE AN ARCH!!!! GAH!!! Build strength in the foot. The arch, that happens on its own. It’s not pretty to have folded feet and certainly not strong. Destroy your feet, and you won’t be able to dance at my age. I STILL DANCE. I’m fifty-dang-four!!! Be good to your body and it’ll keep up with everything you want to do.

[@candy1209]

bourré also means drunk. pas de bourré translates to step of the drunk and it's very accurate lmao

[@dominiquefaught5116]

In regards to the commentary video and how there should be something for non ballet people who don’t understand what is going on. I found out my city’s ballet has a dedicated performance with subtitles as the show is going for those purposes.

[@MissIV]

The very unimpressed little girl reminded me of my daughter who, at her first ballet recital when she was 3, was so unimpressed & flippant she left me wondering how I had managed to raise a drag queen so young! 😂

[@robopecha]

people who make children do those toe things should go to prison. forreal.

[@gisselle.quinones]

it doesn’t hurt me. i actually asked her to do it lol

[@robopecha]

@@gisselle.quinones what do you want? promote child abuse or be wonder woman? both idiotic.

[@zoew_]

6:20 this screams russia

[@GingerRapunzel]

We take class at 7:15 am 😅

[@VitalijKaramakov]

Yeah, that was not in the states, its maksim shirmankin's class, his students are amazing and to be part of his classes you have to audition....

[@MacDouhui]

At 6:08, definitely not the US or even Western Europe/UK. Central/Eastern Europe: Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, etc. Not Russian. The music says Hungary.

[@YuliMiou]

it's Russia. the studio is Red Ballet, it's in Moscow and the teacher is Gogoleva Yulia Borisovna.

[@MacDouhui]

@@YuliMiouThanks. Quite the class!

[@kilandrayeuxdoux2804]

I thought your guest star was very into it. Dio is very handsome and will be well versed in the area of dance & pointe shoe fitting.

[@Arche_de_noe]

Fun fact, "bourré" also means "drunk" in french

[@JGreen-le8xx]

Josephine ❤❤❤❤❤❤ 😊

[@TellyGonzalez]

..and we get a cameo from Sofie Dossi and Ashley Rose Montague. Sweet!❤

[@katherinemurphy2762]

When it comes to cambrés, I usually take them too slowly, not too quickly.

[@ninguem8947]

i think commentary videos could also help people who are learning themselves!

[@teyataom]

Kim Kimin is fantastic

[@TosillKohut]

That first one looks like it’s at Shanghai Disney.

[@ruthan3370]

I thought the pas de bourée took its name from the Baroque dance of the same name ... though I'm not sure how that got its name!

[@juliemichellerobinson1841]

So I just trawled through the knowledge of my 9yo self and looked some stuff up to confirm and learnt some new stuff in the process. Here's the history lesson from a non-dancer but musician who had to learn part of this as a kid when she first learnt to play a bourree! The term was used for a type of clog dance, also known as branle des sabots, with the "and a one" upbeat associated with the musical 'bourree'. This was frequently performed around a bonfire. The French word means a bundle of sticks, as used to make a bonfire, from the Latin 'burra' meaning 'stuffing.' I sort of knew the last part but not the connection. It kind of makes sense if you think of the pas de bourree as a 'filler' step, I guess? But the very fast little steppies en pointe (or on demi-) are known as courus in every class I've observed or played piano for over here, so I did some more research since couru just means 'running'. I've just looked things up and technically they are 'pas de bourrees suivis' (bourrees) and 'pas de bourrees courus' (courus). RAD dictionary says courus are in fifth, but there's potential at least historically for there have to been a difference with 'suivi' in fifth and 'couru' in first position.

[@fatimapelaelo6399]

I minute and ballet forever

[@Lisa-lz6ye]

Omg. How old is he now?

[@khalithostwilight8692]

I'd like there to be "The Directors Commentary" for Ballet sometimes. I watch, it's pretty, I do not understand what is going on.

[@misstekhead]

7:02 No ma’am. I did not like that last TikTok. You break in pointe shoes, not literally the feet! Watching that is bringing out the inner Karen I never knew I had. “I need to speak with the head of your dance studio *_NOW_* .” 😅

[@GumGum-i4p]

Everyone knows port de bras😂😂

[@dogsBFF]

41seconds ago no way!

[@queenbea3654]

Under 1 hour ⬇️

[@asa5449]

Really enjoy your videos 🥰 Sensitive topic but have you thought about blurring (etc) your baby's face when filming and protecting their privacy?

[@robopecha]

i think a lot of people think it's ok if it's a baby, because you won't recognize them later. (because all babies look the same obviously.) but honestly, i am glad there are no baby pics of me on the internet.