Top 10 Hardest Ballet Moves to Pull Off
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- The hardest ballet moves will keep you on your toes. For this list, we’ll be looking at some of the most difficult moves in one of the most difficult dance styles ever invented. Our countdown includes Pirouette, Grand Adage, Tour de Reins, and more! What do YOU think is the hardest ballet move? Let us know in the comments!
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I feel like whoever wrote the text for this video just went to a few ballet classes and a performance or two and wrote down some random steps that sounded cool in French. Arabesque and pirouette are things a first year student learns, and pique turns are probably the easiest to do multiple times. I agree with what a lot of others have said---tours in second are very hard because angular momentum is fighting you when you pull your arms in to go onto half-pointe or pointe. Brisee vole would top my list. And grand adage is not a step but a sequence and quality of movement, plus it's in just about every ballet and not rare at all. (Also, barrel turns can be done with the front leg bent or not.) And let's not forget the "540"! Great footage, though!
Pique turns shoube replaced by chaines, these are much more harder
I was thinking the same thing the entire time, more then half of these do require basic training but are still quite simple to pull off
i agree, I was really surprised something like hops en pointe or like gargouillade wasn't on there with one of those requiring much more training and strength and gargouillade is just coordination but I still can't do them nicely so
Easiest moves ever on this list
Legit, I'm a ballet pro according to this video
A pique is one of the first moves you learn in kiddie ballet classes at 5 years old bro
it was the first step I did en pointe not at bar!
this is not quite true! it is too easy a step for this list but I'm definitely not teaching my 5 year olds to pique turn! not even 10 year olds are ready in terms of local dance classes (vocationals would be just about learning it then) at 5yrs they're learning about turnout and how to maintain it during plies and tendus. We're justing trying to get them to pointe their feet really! they're not developed enough for anything more complicated than that
also skips! skips and pony gallops!
@@bethwareing604 Really? Why do you wait so long? I learned piques around 5 or 6 and was starting fouettes by 10-11.
@@nicolina1026 To get the technique secure before doing them, I know a few schools of training think you should turn first but most get the turnout and posture more under control before doing piques
here would be my top 10 as a ballet student: promenade en pointe, hops en pointe on one foot, double lame duck, a la seconde turns, italian (and russian) fouettés, cabriole, renverse, cambre in develope devant, petit allegro in general, and grand sissone. some of the ones in the video are actually quite easy for me haha.
oh and also those turns from the variation grand pas classique
u ate w the “petite allegro in general part”.
So true, a la seconde turns terrify me lmao
LAME DUCKS ARE SO COMPLICATED LIKE OMG
@@temperanceperez6518 Lame ducks en pointe are going to be my downfall
Piqué turns are soooooooo easy. Who made this list? Definitely NOT a professional ballerina 🩰
Yeah we used to do them in jazz class and I did them in color guard, they're not hard at all. Of course we weren't en pointe but they weren't difficult
I definitely think they based this off of what appears difficult instead of what is! otherwise batterie and brise would be there instead of pose/pique turns or grand jete!
Totally agree
Ikr
So true
An arabesque is not that difficult at all, it pretty much just requires some flexibility and balance. Y'all even said in the video "most amateur dancers could do an arabesque" so if most amateurs can do it then how is it considered one of the hards moves??
agreed, I feel like there are loads of more difficult moves than what was listed in the video.
Feel like ala second could easily replace it tho
Getting a 90-degree arabesque is super hard for me personally. It's getting better but I don't consistently have one.
@@m.x.b.9949 THIS IS SOOOOO EASY
@@dancer_rina it might not be easy fir them, they may not be there yet flexibility wise, and that's okay
i guess that you could say pirouettes are more annoying than tricky. doing multiple, especially on pointe, can be a challenge, but i would say that there are many other challenging steps that beat it in its hardness scale
I agree as someone en pointe lol
Arabesque, pirouette and piqué turns are easier, they get taught to you earlier. I did ballet for 9 years and what was hard for me was fouettés, cabriole, and entrechat. Frappes are easy if you have good foot control/strength.
It’s hilarious to listen to non dancers talk about ballet 😂
Layperson sees it is gruelling and martial artist sees a very dangerous opponent.
Every one thinks all these steps are easy eh? Come on to make them look easy and do them to perfection i would imagine is far from simple. How many would be Nunez and osipovas are bragging here?
@JILl Gooner not all but most that they listed are fairly basic parts of the ballet package. So shouldn't have been on the list arabesque, pirouette, pique turn, etc are FAR from the hardest and on the ballet scale do fall on the easy end
@@madeleine5561 maybe some are basics but to do them to perfection and let's face it many can do that but it needs someone special to make them.look so good which is part of being a special dancer.
@JILl Gooner true enough but there is a difference between a basic move like arabesque and an exceptionally advanced one like grande adage. On a list of "hardest moves" basics don't belong
I learned a pique wayyyy before a pirouette it’s so much easier. Also I find arabesques easy since at my studio we teach them at a young age so you’re always learning more
Most of these aren’t hard lmao this list is so dumb 😂😂
@@desertrose3511 i know right like most of these things i learned in my first-second RAD ballet-
@ClaraPlayz ! i know and not on pointe it can be on flat foot and it looks totally normal-
Every ballet dancer is different. What one dancer loves and finds easy another might avoid at all costs. For example, I can't do fouettes for my life but doesn't matter the day I can basically pull out double piques turns any day, on flat or en pointe. My friend can penché all day, but doesn't like to feel she struggles a lot more with Italian fouettes. It also depends upon training. If you are a female dance trained en pointe and for 'female' roles a tour is going to be much harder.
Fouettés were easy for me to learn, but it’s hard for me to do more than 3 or 4.
Exactly 👍
As a dancer, a lot of these steps are really not that difficult. I find Italian fouettés way harder (and scarier) than other fouettés.
ALSO, a grand jete and saut de chat are two DIFFERENT steps. When talking about grand jetes you show several moments when a dancer is doing a saut de chat. A grand jete is a jump, much like the saut de chat where the dancer seeks to make a split in the air, but the dancer must brush through the front leg straight vs. saut de chat where the dance comes off of one bent knee while the other comes through a developer and kicks up. At 7:56 in the video you can see an actual grand jete, at 8:01 the dancer then switches to the saut de chat.
I was wondering if someone would mention that, thank you! 😂 I mean, we can’t always take Ms Mojo as an expert in all their videos but it’s nice to see the ballet world being represented. They showed wonderful excerpts of the different moves though.
Yes thank you!! I came here to say exactly this.
this is their second video with this mistake :/
For how much this channel makes, you’d think they’d contract with a consultant for an episode.
omg i was like "thats not a grande jete....thats a saut de chat...be for real.." and as a ballerina my teacher made sure we KNEW the difference.
Personally, I can do most of these and I am def not a professional. The frappes, arabesques and pirouettes are what you learn when you first start dance. I would add switch leaps because those are pretty hard. Grand Jetes are also kinda easy too. There are many other dance moves that are way harder.
Agreed. I've never even taken a formal ballet class - I simply was in color guard for two years and learned some ballet basics as a result, and even I can do an arabesque and a pirouette. Granted, I can't do particularly good ones (this was only for two years in high school, and I had no dance experience of any kind before or since), but I can do some halfway decent imitation of what they should be. It just goes to show that by ballet standards, they're pretty easy moves, if even as a 15-year-old with only a small bit of informal dance training can do it.
I’m weird and enjoy frappes at the barre 😅
I danced pre-professionally and the only one I truly agreed with was Italian fouettes. especially in Pointe shoes. in my opinion if you have a good teacher and a safe place, most of these are easy to learn.
as a ballet dancer seeing grand jetés and frappés on this list cracked me up
Exactly
Ikr
You’ve totally forgotten pas de chats with arms entertwined with three other ladies. Hands down the entire Little Swans dance is the most difficult that exists.
I always look at that and think mu hod what if someone is slightly out. Would look obvious and could be a disaster. Very difficult indeed.
as a 15 year old ballet dancer, the hardest moves for me are 100% fouettes (en pointe) and BRISÉS they are so hard they make me cry!!!
Yes!!! Brisés are insanely hard!
Centerstage was one of my favorite movies to watch growing up. I always wanted to be able to do some of those moves so badly!
agree, 100%
The list is super inaccurate but I do love all the marianella Nunez clips (she's my favorite ballet dancer)
Me, too! Got to see her live a few years ago, so now I can die happily!
Shes the best dancer weve had in 40 years. Can do everything with ease and style. A real class act. Should be made ballerina ASSOLUTA
Ballet dancers are marvelous athletes. Kudos! Too bad there's no gold medal for these incredible athletes.
Well, there are the "ballet olympics" type competitions like Moscow and Varna and the newer student-oriented Youth America Grand Prix...
This list is absolute garbage 😂 most of these are SO EASY. Idk who made this list but they definitely don’t know ballet
A gargouillade is also very challenging
Also Entrechat Six.
Gargouillades were literally created by the devil. Easily the worst move in ballet and it doesn't even look that pretty.
@@sorcerer455 I preferred Gargouillades to entrechat six but I agree they are pretty.
A gargouillade was one of my favourite ballet moves to do!❤️
Yes them be gross lol literally ‘to gurgle’ 🤢 much more palatable and a variation of the pas de chat as well is the elancee pas de chat elancee
Just a heads up, there are way more than just two kinds of fouettés. (And I’ve never heard anyone use the term Russian fouetté for fouetté en tourant but I suppose it could be popular elsewhere).
Also most dancers will call the jump with a “bent to straight” front leg a saut de chat or grand pas de chat (cat jump or big cat step). A traditional grand jeté begins with a grand battement, i.e. a straight leg that doesn’t bend and is brushed/thrown up in the air. It is common in some North American places to use grand jeté for both jumps but they are fundamentally different, just because the legs both split in the air doesn’t mean they are related.
As a ballet dancer, my top hardest ballet steps are: All Fouettés, entrechats, leaps, grand adage, and alicicone turns😅
I used to do ballet when I was a kid but I wasn’t the best
I mainly use a la secondes in jazz, contemporary and lyrical.
personally I've never used a le seconde turns in ballet dances, I've always done regular fouttes or italian fouttes.
Bro it’s
A la seconde. Not whatever aliciconee 😂😂
I have a cousin who started Ballet at age five.
She is now a Professional Ballerina in Tokyo with a troupe
that specializes in Swan Lake. I once asked her what is the hardest dance step in Ballet and she asked HARD? What's that?
the "grand jetes" they had in the video were mostly pas de chats. the difference is just in the front leg. with a grand jete, the front leg just sweeps up, with a pas de chat the front leg devloppes before fully being in the air. Us ballet dancers have our own easiest and "hardest" movements/steps. everything gets harder when you start going on pointe. and im also loving going through these comments
„Only professional can pull off the full vertical penché“
I am an absolut mediocre adult amateur, but I find penchés easy. All you need is flexibility and a tiny bit of balance
being a ballerina all of these moves are so, diffucult and are hard to make look easy
Not all of them
people don't realize how difficult ballet truly is, I applaud all dancers out there.
I promise as a dancer most of these are easy. Also some of these you start learning when you’re young and build upon it as you go into higher levels.
Almost all of these are so easy
It his hard( trust me) but I learned most of these in my first year dancing, second grade.
Ballet is so hard not just because its has complicated moves, but because it HAS to look effortless and elegant at every single second , its perfection
Thank you so very much!!
As a novice to viewing ballet this gives me a deeper understanding of the art.
Gratitude!
This makes my ballerina heart so happy 🩰
I’m so happy for you. 😀
Olga!! Teaching the ballet class, ROH, in the grande adage bit near the end. An absolutely amazing teacher! With the grey bobbed hair.
Anyone else here enjoying the actual dancers mocking the list more than the video?
Took lessons realized after about 2yrs it wasn't for me. Ballet is very nuanced technically. Every line must be clean, every move clear.
For the arabesque - you're using several Royal Ballet clips, including last year's World Ballet Day rehearsal of Giselle but how, HOW do you not use Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère?! It starts with 39 arabesques in a row! THIRTY-NINE!
The sad thing is that most relatively young ballet dancers can perform pretty much all the things in the top ten, but not the honorable mentions.
Bravo to all these beautiful dancers!!! *clapping*
Those are sauts de chats. They’re different than grand jetés.
It's not just the move itself but that it has to appear absolute effortless!
To all the ballerinas, keep up the good work.
Ballet is amazing...The athleticism necessary is mind blowing 🤯 Athleticism, grace, timing, strength, and endurance are just a few of the skills that are mandatory...Especially balance!!!! Thats why some boxers and football players take ballet classes...True badasses ❤️❤️❤️
Me oh this isnt that hard
Also me tries them all and fails
Well. They aren’t
Feels like I’m watching the animated movie Leap
For my dancers out there, what are steps often hard for others you love or can do well? For me, hops en pointe, Italian fouettes, and multiple piques turns.
menage, frappe and in recent years batterie! my students always complain about these (more so the jumps) but when I was their age brises were the bane of my existence!
I liked beats. I could do a entrachat six.
Any jumps! I have more height in my jumps compared to my friends
ITALIAN FOUETTÉS Everyone thinks they are so hard but they were the easiest fouettés for me to learn and I loved them lol
everything that involves pirouettes bc i’m a turner
Omg this will help me with a school dance project. I can add hard ballet moves! Ty!
as a ballet dancer myself, I’d have to completely disagree with the fact that cabrioles is last in this list lol
Beautiful ♥️♥️♥️
As a dancer of 15 years so far and has done ballet for 7 years as a child. I somehow know how to do a BACK cabriole. I wasn’t taught either. I have yet to teach myself the front version. In my modern dance I have this year, my teacher never said to do one. I jokingly did it when listening to the words of my song while in the studio. She said she liked that idea, and now it’s kept in my dance.
lmao how is an arabesque difficult its literally one of the first things i learnt when i started learning ballet properly
Some of these are so easy 😂. Piqué turns! And penché doesn't have to be a spilt, only 6 clock, which MOST can't to, and it's ugly and unnecessary. Grand jetés also don't have to be spilt. That's as modern trend for extreme extension. Have to agree about Italian fouettés, they are EVIL. And those Italian fouettés you showed some by Krysanova in Bayadère in purple costume wasn't Mariinsky, it was Bolshoi.
Must respect to every ballet dancer!
as a ballet dancer the hardest things for me are penché, releves en pointe in arabesque, and italian fouetté
Hey, always fun to watch! Even though this time, we can definitely say that you don not really master the subject 😅 still enjoyable of course 🙂
3:01 6:01 are from La Scala Theater MiIlan in 2005. The first dancers were Zakharova and Bolle. I recognized the stage costumes and scenery, they are unique from theater to theater.
And also tour(pirouette) à la seconde - most men do it but also ladies and in jazz etc technique.
As if there are any easy ballet moves
It seems a pro-dancer or teacher should have gone through this edit. It's interesting, risky and daring of you to do this video, but it is all kinds of wrong, and that's a shame.
Yes
Did they seriously put the Grande Jete as 4
It’s amazing what people can do
I absolutely LOVE Ballet!!
Arabesque is so easy plus we where taught at a young age how too….
Thank goodness I wasn’t the only one who was literally shaking my head and wondering who made up this list. I studied ballet for years and I agree with the fouetté being the most difficult though. For myself anyway. Keeping everything exactly where it should be, while maintaining your balance is not as easy as ballerinas make it look.
l've seen Gillian do thirty EIGHT of them in a row! She IS THEE fouette QUEEN!
I wouldn't consider 'grand adage' a move per se but a way to dance a string of moves (in this case very slowly)
59: When it comes to ballet,
I watched my first ballet movie Barbie in The Nutcracker, when I got older I did ballet dancing but not for long. I decided to leave it to the professionals and enjoy the show
Such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Red Shoes, Billy Elliot, Snow White and Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland
I can do the cabriole. It’s not amazing but I think it’s pretty good and i’ve been working on it since I was 7.
It’s like y’all didn’t research ballet whatsoever before making this video
Cabriole 0:53
Arabesque 1:49
Pirouette 3:12
Pique turn 4:10
Penché 5:16
Tour de Reims 6:08
Grand jeté 7:04
Italian fouetté 8:19
Grand adage 9:26
Fouetté 11:40
Thanks for this:)
I'm just a fan, a ticket buying ballet watcher. I watch the video and think, 'Wow, that looks really hard', then I read comments and it's "Come on, those are easy, a five-year-old could do that."
Still looks hard to me. I deeply appreciate the work dancers put in to achieve these results and make it look so perfect and beautiful. To me, dance, particularly ballet, is the highest artistic expression of human motion.
😮wow…just, wow.
The only good thing about this video is the videos of the dancers they used, Maria Khoreva and Marianela Núñez (just to name two of my faves but many of the greats are in this video)
Hmm… ex-dancer, think some basics- a high extension, spotting, turnout, a beautiful port-de-bra, balance
( if I see one more wobbly landing or end of a movement…) Adagio was always part of all mytraining - if you can’t do it
Slowly & correctly, speed doesn’t help. Love seeing core shills like frappe. I always thought that Italian tourer attitude was
Done on BENT Supporting leg… I had the privilege of one of the great Russian emigre teachers, very exacting - the kind that produce a Barishnikov.
Tours en l'air, especially a double or triple turn, gets my vote.
This Is easy
FINALLY SOME RECOGNITION
Overall you did a wonderful job. Some people are complaining that you put in arabesques. Arabesques are extremely difficult to do correctly. That is what the back leg turned out and the pressure in the back to keep the hip open. Grand adagio is not a step, it is a sequence. You did not mention beats which are the crisscrossing a feat during a jump. Very difficult to do multiples. But I truly enjoyed it🤩 keep up the good work!
This list is just garbage 😂
Arabesque being above cabriole is wild lmao
good ms is a good channel
Took ten years of Ballet, and I have yet to earn my toe shoes. But I have mastered half of these movements, in class and by practicing at home.
Just because you know how to do them on flats doesn’t mean you’ll be able to do it en pointe. Pointe shoes take extreme strength and you must have good technique. If you want to speed up the process, work on your turnout, ankle/ foot strength and flexible
@@milliejay1451 I'm well aware of that fact. Which is why I have high respect for the dancers in Point Shoes.
I may not take ballet anymore, but I still practice. And I thank you for the tip advice.
Dancer here Ms MOJO did you even consult a dancer?????'
1) cabriole not easy but fairly basic
2) arabesque dancers bread and butter EASY novices can do it
3)pirouette again basic (cringed at spin and twirl)
4)pique turn actually much easier than pirouette and again basic and learned early
5)penche yeah! First one that's accurate except that not just perfessionals can do it anyone auditioning should be able to
6)tour de rein fairly accurate to my knowledge
7) grand Jeter? Seriously this is one of the easiest of the leaps (sigh we don't hop to start)
8)Italian fouette ok hell yes
9) grande adage yes it's hard but actually it's in ALMOST EVERY BALLET
-Frappe-medium for a warm up
-butterfly yes
-double tour probably more intermediate but I'll give it to you
10) fouette yes although it's not one movement of the let
You really should have done more research into other moves as most you listed are very common. I add the caveats that nothing in ballet is easy especially if done well be on a scale of hard to easy moves in ballet you picked easy ones. Also maybe double check your vocabulary ex we say steps not moves generally. Also some of the reasons you listed for moves like cabriole being hard (straight legs isolated movement and pointed toes basically go for 90% of ballet)
I love how they put so much work researching all the moves and explaining what they are
Except these are so easy. Maybe 2 of these are really challenging. I’m a ballet dancer and these are so many things WRONG with this list.
This person seriously just watched 2 ballet movies and made this video. First of all, these aren't the hardest moves. Second of all the technique is MUCH more complicated then just "3 things that this move consists of". Also something I just want to say is many ballet dancers find the arabesque harder than the penche, as we spend years fixing the technique and then when it comes to the penche it's not as much work.
I am a ballerina a young one and im so jealous of them tbh every move these ballerinas do are just perfect I've been trying to do the splits for years now and I just can't do it idk why maybe bc of my long legs or bc I just can't take the pain I wish I could be like them
Pirouette has different names depending on whether you are moving into the turn or back away from
The turn.
good video
Very few ballerinas nowadays do the full 32 Fouettés WITHOUT the double turn which makes it under 32 proper ones.
Italian fouettes are easier than regular fouettes imo
This is so wrong it's funny! 😂😂
Right?!! 🤣😭
I need a Dramamine from watching those spins!
not y'all showing saut de chats when talking about grand jetés 😭
Literally lol
I clicked on this video thinking I could see some stuff to impress my friends a panche is so easy
Ex dancer : Italian fouettes Batterie and Ranversé Promenade in a la seconde Single pirouette from fifth to fifth any pirrouettes from two legs to one ❣️
This is definitely not the hardest, first of all a arabesque it’s Soooo easy!! And a pirouette it easy also! And a pique turn like these are easy!!! Whoever did this list has clearly never did ballet 🩰
She probably just listed the ones that looked the hardest🥲
I LIKE THIS MS MOJO. MORE STUFF RELATED TO EVERYDAY LIFE
The absolutely hardest ballet move: Taking a bow while smiling when you want to fall to your knees and puke.
Two things i think should of been added instead of pirouettes or arabesque is tour jete/ entrelace and then also petite allegro and all the steps that take place in that. Really what they did they just took the most common ballet terms everyone knows and ranked those I think
I’ve been dancing for 13 years and most of the steps you showed are fairly easy. I actually kinda laughed when they said spotting is key thing in dance, most of the people at my studio don’t spot, even one of the teachers sometimes doesn’t spot. I will say, yes depending on the type of turn it can be tricky and very annoying especially en pointe. I don’t know who agrees with me but this I just my view of ballet from a small studio. Have a good day.
Did Ballet for 10 years and 5 of those years were Pointe work. Hardest ones for me to learn were definitely…huh…I guess Italian fouettés and normal fouettés? Arabesques are actually kinda easy if you have the strength and balance. AND FRAPPES ARE SO EASY WTF MISSMOJO?!!
pique turns, pirouettes, and arabesque are all taught in like the first year of ballet. why are they on this list?
What I’ve always wandered is, how do ballet dancers handle the dizziness. 😮
“Tricky jump with two turns” 😂 what is this! I learned most of these when I was 5
Not sure about using Barani as a demo model. Although he does do an excellent cabriole.