Prima, Ballerina!

Ballet pointe demonstration by Yvonne and her friends, short excerpt from childrens ballet demonstration DVD. Note Yvonnes beautiful feet during echappé closeups

[@Rozzyberry]

Yes she is lovely. A dancer's body is her instrument, her voice and it's all about how you use it. She has wonderful technique.

[@matthewkretschmer7010]

Pretty ballet dancing and seeing an adult ballet with young ballets.

[@AkiraChan24]

I started ballet when I was 17. And you don't have to be thin to be a good ballet dancer. I took a dance class form a BEAUTIFUL dancer, and she was pregnant at the time =) If you want to take ballet then go ahead! It's all about enjoying dance.

[@ballerinaTV]

I think she looks very nice and strong en pointe! :) She has a perfect muscle build for ballet. Keep up the good work! -BallerinaTV

[@rissereese719]

she doesn't have to be thin :) she's showing techniques. and there is no problem with her shoes at all :)

[@ballet98girly]

u can still dance, someone at my studio started at 16 and was actually the snow queen in nutcracker last year, u just need patience,determenation, and perseverance

[@pointeguru18]

People get really defensive about weight.but its not about your weight its about dance and how you move that defines you. She is a great dancer and im sure everyone who commented on this is too. Just drop the fighting.

[@francolombardi819]

Il ballo mi ha accompagnato nella vita quasi da sempre insieme alle arti marziali. La danza classica però non l ho mai presa in considerazione . Un giorno ho avuto un occasione per fare una prova , e ho scoperto un mondo nuovo che mi ha affascinato molto e ho iniziato subito alla grande .È molto bello fare hip hop, e danza classica.

[@LINAKI123]

Her technique is very good , bravo to the girl :)

[@carlyheartsdance]

her echappes are amazing!

[@jeoyanda]

"The Little Primaballerina! Ballet Training for Children" is the title of the DVD. She is a student at the time this was filmed from what I can understand.

[@gabbireyes112]

So many insecure people commenting nothing but negativity... Just because it's not them on video.

[@ballerinahoney]

"Ballerina's hide their strength with beauty, but undeniably, it is still there."

[@SuperSailorSailing]

'Ballet isn't modelling business. It's about dancing...its about how you express yourself and how you use what you have.' Maria Kochetkova, Principal Dancer, San Francisco Ballet

[@idance0001]

very good!! i'm from holland, so i understand the most of the video to!

[@genay33]

She makes it look so easy

[@LaurenStar111]

Its nice to see a prima ballerina who is not stick thin :)

[@smarjess]

her first position turn out is crazy turned out!

[@krisdenine]

Im in German 1 this year and understood most of this video :) im so proud! hahah

[@knowitallAJ]

It's amazing how jealous people can get, when they see such an amazing PRIMA BALLERINA. Yes I put in capitals to accentuate the fact that she is good enough to be a ballerina. :D

[@VashtiWalters]

She isn't fat.

[@JackdawWishesTTV]

I love how she's not a size zero it shows even big girls can do ballet she still looks graceful I'm 10 1/2 and I'm a dancer you don't have to be super skinny to be a ballet dancer

[@Katinka0308]

You should think before you judge without even knowing the facts. This is a DVD, which tells children about ballet to get them interested in dancing. The intention is to give children an understanding of some impressions about the sport as a great hobby. The dancer in the video is not a profi. She is also dancing ballet as a hobby. Nobody in this video claims, that the girl is a prima ballerina. Please read properly! The title is Prima, Ballerina! It´s a common title addressed to kids speech!

[@GiouliandKostas2009]

I used to dance ballet years ago and I stopped it because the other girls were having fun of me and my body is like the girl's on the video..! I was so depressed with that situation but now I really love my body and that's me at all. I could do nothing to be skinnier.Now I work out every day and I like to show out a healthy body rather than a body that is starving. She is very good at her dancing and not fat at all!! :/

[@SuperKoolkidd12]

wow she is like the best Ballerina i have ever seen

[@SuperSailorSailing]

Yes, I'm very very much inclined to agree. I'm not at all in a position to gauge the technicalities; rather I was reflecting on the attitude expressed in particular by Maria Kochtekova in regard to physique. What you say applies to any great profession, be it in the arts, sciences or other fields of endeavor. I just love to watch (especially classical) ballet: I think it's really beautiful, graceful: simply inspiring. And not without tremendous dedication and skill.

[@SmoKyBruceLee]

LOVING IT.

[@LaurenStar111]

Its nice to see a ballerina thats not stick thing :) I wasnt even thinking about her weight unti I read the comments :)

[@KiliniLove]

i love her turnout!!!!

[@doubleS07]

did anyone even check the faces on the little ones at 00:08-00:12?? they look so awestruck it's adorable!!

[@Thedoomcookieness]

she has a lovely arabesque!

[@IsAoibhinnLiomBallet]

i think its horrible how people are commenting on how 'big' her body is- just because she's not anorexic doesn't mean there's anything wrong with her!

[@SuperAwesomesauce96]

Her muscle tone is INSANE!

[@Karen1andKaren2]

@Simmibimmy 13 is a very good age. If you are in a good school you should be able to do everything in pointe shoes within 2-3 years. Some people start at 8, and after 5 years, they still have trouble doing a single pirouette. I started when I was 13, son't worry.

[@SuperSailorSailing]

Not if you understand German: there's a hint of irony. "Prima" in German means "wonderful" or "great". Also note the use of the comma.

[@storytime2103]

her feet are soposed to wable like that because she's moving

[@rockout0909]

I started at age 6 too! I'm 19 now :)

[@amylou.273]

At least she can go en pointe without her barre going with her -.- In my dance school we have new barres, theyre SO light, you try doing barre work like going up en pointe snatching and the barre moves half way across the room

[@MisaAmaneification]

No one is "too big" to have a real dance carrier. And what's the point of starting your comment with "I don't want to be mean" when your comment was mean. She's perfect.

[@Rozzyberry]

You are totally right. I just think that dancers should aim to be healthy, because it enables a person to have a longer and healthier life.

[@anildo1372]

all those people that don't understand a german word but pretend they know exactly what the video is about

[@Simmibimmy]

@Karen1andKaren2 Thank you so much. After watching all these videos of 11 year olds doing amazing pointe dances, I started feeling bad. :D Good to know!

[@leisaclayton]

Beautiful!!!!

[@mamemimoma]

I like her pas de bourré! and she is really graceful|

[@LaurenStar111]

@sofiemarris Its because she gets her own changing room and she is one of the main dancers. The proper term for a prima ballerina would be a Principal dancer

[@thepalacemaid]

Sadly in the old days it wasn't like this, if you look at the old photos, many famous ballerina's looked almost exactly like this lady, even Vaganova herself, even the great Plisetskaya was not too thin in her younger days. Nowadays the ballet world is realizing the harm such obsession with thinness does to girls, even the Canadian Grande Dame Betty Oliphant acknowledged this in her book...

[@carlyheartsdance]

@BalletLoveXOX I was just talking about how wide her second is, and how well she's getting over her box.

[@missolive10100]

She is pretty good! Something to work on though: you should go up to sousu with both feet, not just the front.

[@IrisMathieson]

jeez guys. she is not fat. she just happens to have an hour-glass figure. i happen to have a very defined waist and large hips, and i'm at a ballet school. i know how it feels to be this shape while everyone else has a very boy-like figure. i thought that i wasn't made for ballet, but it doesn't have to be so. her thighs are big because they are muscly. all that matters is that she is strong and is a lovely dancer.

[@whatafonduefulworld]

I agree w/ everything you say except "underweight is not perfect because it is unhealthy". Most of the amazing professional ballerinas are underweight, but only because they train so hard. And at the same time, they're perfect. (Watch Diana Vishneva or Paloma Herrerra sometime.)

[@Royal.Underlord]

Guys, she is bodacious and gorgous, so quit saying she is fat, heavy, or plump. She is neither.

[@zoeybrookes101123]

@Simmibimmy Im 14 and I just got my first pair of pointe shoes! It is definatly not too late you just have to work really hard

[@jessicalott841]

she is not fat people! if you are refering to her legs it is not fat at all it is muscle i am a dancer and i have been dancing since i was 2 years old my legs look similar and it is muscle not fat

[@Karen1andKaren2]

@LaurenStar111 honestly, lately (at least in america) ive found that the professionals have a more muscular, athletic build

[@MrGrapesrock]

wow thats really young , you are so lucky!! :)

[@loverevil777]

For me she has a beautiful strong healthy body and overall she is graceful and gifted,, the most beautiful ballerina I´ve ever seen, a true German beauty

[@annearmstrong6387]

If you want to see perfect fit bodies, go search Svetlana Zakharova's or Victoria's Secret's videos. Maybe she hasn't got a PERFECT ballerina's body, but if she wants to dance ballet and she loves what she does , who are you for telling her she is fat? By last, it is a teaching video for the little ones who want to be like her, without thinking she is fat or not. (Sorry if I don't speak English well at all, but I'm Spanish)

[@rosahorrobin879]

shes not fat. In my dance school all the other dancers are really thin and i am quite curvy same with her shes not fat its just every other dancers are really thin.

[@Miyuki0Urahara]

For everyone complaining that she isn't good; I'd like to see you do better. I know I can't.

[@tigerlvr333]

i luv ur channel name! you really know how to hold a debate, probs b/c us twilight lvrs get so much crap about it! :P lol. team edward???

[@fuggitole]

If only i could be like her .

[@EncoreLPYZ]

how could you people say she's fat or even big? gosh this is what normal people look like

[@humbledreamsmusic]

I really wish I could have started ballet at a young age, but now that I am 15 I know I will never be good enough and it makes me feel so sad. /:

[@GracieVictoria99]

She is NOT fat people! That's all just muscle!!!! PLEASE notice the difference!

[@ariannaravinea2264]

I agree with this completely, but I will say that often this is not the case with dancers. Companies want smaller dancers. She is a beatuful dancer and that’s what matters to me.

[@cfperson98]

good job!

[@Monkeybabysitter]

I think you guys got the wrong idea, the largeness around her but is all muscle.

[@purplepeople321]

u guys, she's not "big" she is healthy, and come on, its fricken muscle.

[@littlehouse15]

I will say that German Russian and some eastern european languages sound very similar in phrasing and intonation. Just as French, Latin, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish sound similar in phrasing and intonation. The 'melody' of related languages often sounds the same. Many of them have the same root language. But Spanish and Russian don't sound anything alike. Listen to the sounds of the words, even if you can't understand them, you can hear a big difference.

[@KendallAliyah]

I wasn't even thinking about the girl's weight until I scrolled to the comments. Wtf guys you need to chill.

[@MsBonata]

I know a girl whith the same body type as the one of the girl in the vid...She's a prima ballerina too.I don't think it's the body that matters but the soul,the fire and the passion since you possess these you don't have to be anorexic...looks like "someone" doesn't have them...-.-

[@TheChaiTeaLatte]

I love her body! healthy and stroong. not frail and skinny

[@Leni1711]

gib mal ein: "How to do the splits" oder "Stretching for splits"

[@Rozzyberry]

Please do not say she is fat. I think she is perfectly in proportion. Underweight is not perfect because it is unhealthy. Anyway, when you watch ballet you should judge the dancer, not their body.

[@lexisbarbieri3961]

I agree!

[@misscupcake48]

@amdancersforever im not skinny but am a great ballet dancer i could not agree more!!!

[@lilianwach4526]

Cookie TV: you misunderstood completely what I've said. I didn't critizise the girl for her body in generally, I just said, that she has no chance to become a professionel ballet dancer. That's a big difference and everybody, who nows which kind of body you need for being a prof. dancer, understood my posting.

[@sunshine0shenanigans]

@thepaola101 well if you are en pointe, it causes certain problems with bone formation sometimes. many dancers end up having arthritic feet.

[@Apiiful]

Well, I think she's great :)

[@gothprincess1901]

she isn't fat she's normal i don't know how fat do you mean but i think she's perfectly in propotion

[@Kaya0Anna]

Is this all you people talk about how big she is?She isn't big!!!You can literally be any size and do pointe work, or ballet lessons.The more weight you carry the harder it will be for your ankles and toes/shoes to carry the weight so in essence, they are stronger than all the waifs that do ballet normally. You only perceive this dancer as weird because we only see very slim dancers all the time. If all dancers had been heavier throughout the ages, you'd think the skinny ones were weird!

[@BillBaileyFan2662]

Guys, just shut the fuck up about her weight. She's a gorgeous dancer. In all honesty I wish I had her body and legs and whatnot, not to mention her technique. I know for a fact how hard it is on a ballerina when you tell her she needs to lose weight. My very best friend found out yesterday that she was going to be the Fairy Godmother in Cinderella, but during her consultation our artistic director asked her if she was trying to lose weight. She was in tears. She's been eating so well, but her

[@Mjfanlittlemonster]

muss ich duenn sein um eine ballerina zu werden? ich spiele ballet seit ich 5 jahre alt war und liebe es sehr! aber mein eninziges problem ist dass ich nicht sehr duenn bin. (sorry if my German is bad...i'm from Egypt :))..)

[@michellekohler8549]

ich mag auch balltt aber ich kann noch kein spagat und möchte es unbedingt lernen .Wie kann ich spagat zuhause lernen ?

[@AmiMorita00]

ballerinas shouldnt be anorexic but they shouldnt be over weight and its not all about weight its about the technique and ur presentation (smiling and facial expressions)

[@twilightrocks1111]

@MaryJVar but why are you taking in her weight. she obviously has great skill in what she does. therefore, weight doesnt matter, its the dedication and effort and the result that matters

[@iceskatercharlotte]

love the littel kid at the start like :O OHMIGOD!

[@TheNytoria]

im not tryin to be rude.. its hard to stay in shape it really is.. u know im 12 yrs old and its hard for me.. i try to be on a diet but it made me more fat so ... im 195.2 lbs yeah its alot but u know its the hard work that counts .. not the weight .. but this is jus an opinion im just sayin im not starting anythin .. if u don like im sorry

[@MrDancing4beauty]

at 7:06 one girl was randomly on demi pointe haha, she has beautiful footwork and extensions but her elbows are kinda droopy which ruins it

[@Hannibelleso]

This video is great to practise for my ballett, but Im even leaner. How old is she 15? Then shes one year older than me, i`ll see how good I am in a year! And to everyone out there: Nobody`s perfekt, so dont speeek about her like she is bad, because in my age youwerent better! If you can do it now, make a vidio! Then i can see it! Love Hannibelle

[@Mayu94n]

@hollywoodance97 I agree with you! I lost a bit weight and immediately got so much better in ballet. Everything was so much easier when you´re lighter. You shouldn´t get anorexic or so but if you´re a bit thinner, you´ll notice how much better you can do the exercises.

[@danidoce]

criticize less and appreciate more.

[@gotitawsome]

This lady is speaking German and I only know a little and yet I still couldn't understand a word

[@seaofglass77]

those legs are all muscle.

[@TheAmazing800]

tuck your thumbs in!

[@Simmibimmy]

I'm in grade even right now. Sometime near the end of this school year, my ballet teacher will put us on pointe. Am I really late? For someone who isn't an INSANELY talented ballerina, am I still too late getting on pointe, or pretty average? I'll be 13 in about a week.

[@fernandamontalva1002]

Do you still dance?

[@lblancelot]

I don't think she's fat. It's her body suit. Black doesn't always make you look thinner. The cut is wrong and the color does nothing for her.

[@IrisMathieson]

@LaurenStar111 haha :D well at least you got that it was eastern-european :D

[@TheChaiTeaLatte]

@whatafonduefulworld everyone's body is different. some of us just have the big posture. no matter how light their weight is. it's not about metabolism. it's just their natural body shape and you cannot change that! you can minimise how big you look, but you can't change a body shape. it's natural, you're born that way. so please, stop thinking so narrowly. as for professional ballerinas in professional companies, companies pick dancers based on 1. body. technique comes second. sad but true.

[@BillBaileyFan2662]

@BillBaileyFan2662 (Cont'd.) muscle makes her look better. I know for a fact it's muscle. She's done Russian in the Nutcracker for the past 3 years and all Russian is is jumping! Of course she's going to build up muscle. Her body type is fine, many girls would envy it. And even our male lead can lift her over his head without a problem. But because she doesn't have the generic ballerina body type she never gets a partnering piece. She's now thinking about quitting dance because of our director.