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yell: areyoubuzzlightyear: robiningravens: aurelie-dupont: Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer. ^Not only that Professional Football Players and other athletes take Ballet because it improves agility and a lot of other things. Off-topic, but doing that last stretch on a barre that’s mounted on wheels is always fun. I have such memories of how you’d have to use your toes as a brake to keep it from moving on you… I am also intensely jealous of how hyper-extended that split is. I could go beyond 180, but not that far!
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yell: areyoubuzzlightyear: robiningravens: aurelie-dupont: Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer. ^Not only that Professional Football Players and other athletes take Ballet because it improves agility and a lot of other things. Off-topic, but doing that last stretch on a barre that’s mounted on wheels is always fun. I have such memories of how you’d have to use your toes as a brake to keep it from moving on you… I am also intensely jealous of how hyper-extended that split is. I could go beyond 180, but not that far!
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yell: areyoubuzzlightyear: robiningravens: aurelie-dupont: Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer. ^Not only that Professional Football Players and other athletes take Ballet because it improves agility and a lot of other things. Off-topic, but doing that last stretch on a barre that’s mounted on wheels is always fun. I have such memories of how you’d have to use your toes as a brake to keep it from moving on you… I am also intensely jealous of how hyper-extended that split is. I could go beyond 180, but not that far!
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yell: areyoubuzzlightyear: robiningravens: aurelie-dupont: Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer. ^Not only that Professional Football Players and other athletes take Ballet because it improves agility and a lot of other things. Off-topic, but doing that last stretch on a barre that’s mounted on wheels is always fun. I have such memories of how you’d have to use your toes as a brake to keep it from moving on you… I am also intensely jealous of how hyper-extended that split is. I could go beyond 180, but not that far!
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yell: areyoubuzzlightyear: robiningravens: aurelie-dupont: Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer. ^Not only that Professional Football Players and other athletes take Ballet because it improves agility and a lot of other things. Off-topic, but doing that last stretch on a barre that’s mounted on wheels is always fun. I have such memories of how you’d have to use your toes as a brake to keep it from moving on you… I am also intensely jealous of how hyper-extended that split is. I could go beyond 180, but not that far!
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yell: areyoubuzzlightyear: robiningravens: aurelie-dupont: Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer. ^Not only that Professional Football Players and other athletes take Ballet because it improves agility and a lot of other things. Off-topic, but doing that last stretch on a barre that’s mounted on wheels is always fun. I have such memories of how you’d have to use your toes as a brake to keep it from moving on you… I am also intensely jealous of how hyper-extended that split is. I could go beyond 180, but not that far!
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yell:

areyoubuzzlightyear:

robiningravens:

aurelie-dupont:

Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class

Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer.

^Not only that Professional Football Players and other athletes take Ballet because it improves agility and a lot of other things.

Off-topic, but doing that last stretch on a barre that’s mounted on wheels is always fun. I have such memories of how you’d have to use your toes as a brake to keep it from moving on you…

I am also intensely jealous of how hyper-extended that split is. I could go beyond 180, but not that far!

ser-merlin-of-gallifrey: petitepirouette: kuklarusskaya: jamminyamin: Ballerinas are the most underrated athletes. GUYS SHE IS SPINNING ON HER TOE. ALL HER WEIGHT ON HER TOE.  HER TOE. TOE. THIS COMMENT THIS THIS PERSON UNDERSTANDS BALLET <3 What she is doing is very, very difficult and takes years to perfect. However she is not putting the weight on her toe. The pointe shoe is designed to distribute the weight of the dancer. Most of the weight is felt on the instep of the foot and the crown of the toe joints but the toes themselves are (usually) suspended in some sort of jell pad. (whereas attempting to go up without the shoe is truly painful) The real difficulty of such a move is in the balance. The dancer must control and tense almost every muscle along the center of her balance in order to stay upright (while looking untense, loose and graceful). fyi, the ballerina’s name is Gillian Murphy and those turns she’s doing are called fouettés, the Black Swan’s 32 fouettés in Swan Lake. RESPECT HER BECAUSE ALL BALLERINAS ARE BAMFS OKAY
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ser-merlin-of-gallifrey:

petitepirouette:

kuklarusskaya:

jamminyamin:

Ballerinas are the most underrated athletes.

GUYS SHE IS SPINNING ON HER TOE.

ALL HER WEIGHT ON HER TOE. 

HER TOE.

TOE.

THIS COMMENT

THIS

THIS PERSON UNDERSTANDS BALLET <3

What she is doing is very, very difficult and takes years to perfect. However she is not putting the weight on her toe.

The pointe shoe is designed to distribute the weight of the dancer. Most of the weight is felt on the instep of the foot and the crown of the toe joints but the toes themselves are (usually) suspended in some sort of jell pad. (whereas attempting to go up without the shoe is truly painful)


The real difficulty of such a move is in the balance. The dancer must control and tense almost every muscle along the center of her balance in order to stay upright (while looking untense, loose and graceful).

fyi, the ballerina’s name is Gillian Murphy and those turns she’s doing are called fouettés, the Black Swan’s 32 fouettés in Swan Lake.

RESPECT HER BECAUSE ALL BALLERINAS ARE BAMFS OKAY

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