#ballet combination

[tfbsafeageappropriatedance]

With counts:

&1&2 2 PSTEs 1st

&3 ECH STE 2nd

&4 ASBLE STE 1st

&5 ECH STE 2nd

&6 PSTE 2nd

&7 ASBLE STE 1st

&8 ECH STE 2nd

&1 ECH STE 4th

&2 ECH STE 2nd

&3 ECH STE 4th CRSE

&4 ASBLE STE 5th

&5 ECH STE 4th CRSE

&6 ECH STE 2nd

&7 ECH STE 4th

&8 ASBLE STE 5th

Abbreviations:

ASBLE STE: assemble sauté; jump to 1st or 5th position

ECH STE: echappe sauté

PSTE: petit sauté, a small jump (It’s a SMALL JUMPS COMBO, obviously!)

[tfbbehindthedesigns]

The Story Behind the “Full Contretemps” Zazzle Item Lines

In summer 2023, Tomas Karlborg resigned as ballet master for the Berlin Ballet. One of his parting gifts to the ballet world was a clip from their World Ballet Day 2021 company class on stage, accompanied by Nodira Burchanowa on the piano. It was a medium allegro combination inspired by George Balanchine.

The steps go as follows: temps leve 1st arabesque, 2 full contretemps into a temps leve passe, then a temps leve 1st arabesque into a contretemps to temps leve 3rd arabesque. The dancer then takes two steps arrriere (to the opposite direction) to a temps leve developpe ecarte derrière to a balance arriere. The dancer does a tombe, pas de bourree, glissade, to a grand pas de chat, or the pas de Balanchine as Karlborg calls it.

The clip was posted on TikTok in the middle of May in 2023, but later that next month, ballet dancers current and former started doing the medium allegro combo wherever they could, regardless of whether they were wearing sneakers and street clothes or pointe shoes and tutus. Sophie Silnicki did it down the shore in North Wildwood, NJ, in a bikini on the sand.

“Growing up, being trained constantly, day after day, you know all of those ballet terms. You can hear the terms and immediately know the combo,” she said.

Most organizations, ballet schools, and even ballet competition bodies also got into the act. The Dutch National Ballet had their danseurs in gowns pull it off. YAGP has at least two videos featuring female ballet students execute it in tutus.

Some competition-oriented studios and mom-and-pop ones also dove in. After all, it trended smack-dab in the middle of intensive season.

Even Silnicki’s former dance troupe, The Rockettes, hopped on the bandwagon - LaDuca Annie boots first, LITERALLY.

And later on, Ballet for All posted a living room-friendly version of the medium allegro enchainement. It may omit the temps leve 1st arabesque after the temps leve passe to a contretemps before the temps leve 3rd arabesque, but it’s about feasible.

And yes, I REQUESTED IT, having seen several videos of dancers pulling it off.

Apart from at least two tutorials of the combo on TikTok, Yelena’s on YouTube explicitly mentioned the aforementioned contretemps included in it!

Here’s a personalizable notebook from my Zazzle collection!

Even days before Ballet for All’s tutorial was released, the medium allegro combo that went viral on TikTok sparked a merchandise line on the TFB for Safe and Age-Appropriate Dance Ed. Zazzle store: Full Contretemps. Each item is emblazoned with the script text that answers one of the deepest questions some ballet students ask, “Ummm… can you demonstrate a full contretemps once more?”

“This is an excellent example of important good content is on social media — even if it isn’t new,” Ceci Ddisman wrote on ArtsHacker, “Great content can be evergreen. Crafting captivating content significantly increases the likelihood of engaging a larger audience.”

And evergreen the medium allegro combo had been. And it became the influence behind the Full Contretemps merch line on Zazzle.

[technically-human]

Hey, don't cry. Ghost yuri, okay?

(Now that you know the girls, they need to meet the boys!)

[mihai-florescu]

So confused by ppl trying to put down dance as "not a sport" like okay. Um. Not to be mean or anything (well. A bit. U know me) but dance literally has more worth than most of the praised sports on this planet. Lol. Because art is inherently more valuable in my correct worldview, peace and love to the less important atheletes too though, im sure your running and hitting balls has meaning to you at least

[aria0fgold]

Seared like a songbird flying to the sun

A belated birthday gift for @misty-wisp ! Tried to combine references for both Swan Lake and Cendrillon >:3 (Linked the English cover I took the lyrics from for the title!)

[mice-rats-daily]

Today's mice/mouse is the Mouse King's child(children?) from The Nutcracker (1973)!

[good-beanswrites]

My last post made me want to spin the ballet au to suit the general cast, keeping Es as the protagonist 🩰

I don't have art for this one but I still got a bit carried away with the details LOL This definitely leans more into a sweet fix-it :3

The story would open with Es waking up in the medical room of Milgram Dance Academy, a very small and isolated school. Es is told they suffered a bad head injury during a performance, resulting in amnesia. Their instructor (Jackalope. Make this work however you wish.) tells them not to worry about it, and to focus on their dancing for now. Es feels a pressing responsibility to stay and rehearse, so they agree.

Jackalope tells them they must understudy several roles while recovering, not ready to jump into things right away. They're grateful, since they're struggling with their identity and expression without their memories.

The first student they are directed to is a shy and lanky dancer by the name of Haruka. They study under him as the role of a graceful, melancholic swan. They watch the choreography in general, and it looks nice enough. Es proceeds to spend several rehearsals with him, talking and bonding and learning he has a bit more going on than meets the eye. They try to offer help as he admits to familial issues, self esteem questions, and comments about sibling jealousy. In turn, he teaches Es to mimic some of his powerful emotions. At the end of their time together, they both perform for their class in full costume and staging. Now, Es understands each move with a deeper understanding than their initial look at the steps.

Next, they’re sent to meet the bubbly girl playing Juliet and begin the process anew. This continues to make a total of ten roles. Some of the dancers take the sessions kindly, while others are brash, secretive, or just confusing.

After rehearsing with Kotoko and learning to understand her determination and confidence, Es is sent back to Haruka, who has moved onto a new show and new role. They’re shocked to discover that their words to each dancer – always well-intentioned – had caused some issues backstage. Now, there are rivalries and changes in stage presence. While experiencing stress (that Es has inadvertently caused,) some were distracted in rehearsal and got injured. Es must take on the interpersonal issues as well as the choreography challenges.

I don’t have all the roles down and was trying to stick to well-known shows anyway, but I think I’d want Muu to be the Sugar Plum Fairy, Kazui to be Albrecht from Giselle, and Amane to be Clara. I wanted to keep them traditionally gendered to prove there are plenty of roles for men, but I can’t help but have Odette/Odile thoughts for T1 Mikoto ;-;

Like the other post, I'm equally tempted to have the dancers performing ballet adaptations of the mvs 👀 I want to see. Bee tutu. Doctor coat costume. Marching band tutu. AKAA mismatched look. The backgrounds. The music. The choreo. So many cool possibilities...

As a sweet au, it all ends with everyone better for having met one another. Es is cast in a solo performance, combining everything they've learned both emotionally and technically from the others. They feel satisfied with their sense of identity, and shine onstage ✨️✨️✨️

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

i'm working backstage crew for my sister's circus version of The Nutcracker, and she texted me to ask if i have enough all black clothes for the run. does she even know me.

[strechanadi]

An interview with Heloïse Bourdon and Mathieu Ganio on all things Mayerling.

[c-erudio]

[squid-ink-on-toast]

Decided to read the chonny jash interview and i am laughing so hard im glad my parents aren’t downstairs.

Also FUCKING LOUIE ZONG, BEAR GHOST AND BRIAN DAVID GILBERT MENTION!?!??

ALSO ALSO the bit on his creative process “This Is Absolute Dogshit, What Am I Even Doing? Wait Hang On, I’m Actually A Living Legend And This Is The Single Greatest Piece Of Art Ever Created, I Don’t Know Anymore. This Could Be White Noise Blasted At 500% Volume And I Wouldn’t Be Able To Tell.” Is a mood and i think the creative process for most

Also tiramisu reference.

[tfbsafeageappropriatedance]

Lest you ballet nerds are living under a rock, grappling with no internet, or trying to save precious data by limiting time on IG/YT/TikTok, we all know that medium allegro (not the grand allegro, as Rockette alum Sophie Silnicki calls it) enchainement that has been making the GARGANTUAN rounds on social media so far this summer:

Yup - that’s the FAMOUS “Pas de Balanchine” medium allegro enchainement from Berlin Ballet’s 2021 World Ballet Day company class, presided by ballet master Tomas Karlborg, who just retired from his position a couple of weeks ago!

Haven’t hammed it up for your phone/GoPro camera yet - or rather, need some technique-based pointers on this combo? Get excited - because Ballet For All - the adult ballet media platform - will soon drop a step-by-step tutorial on YouTube that breaks it down for you! So, get out your pointe shoes, Frances (but with your dance teacher’s approval, of course).

While doing what we Filipinxs call “making hintay” - if you know what I mean by that - I have merch on the Big Z related to one of the ballet steps spotted in the above enchainement (and one Mr. Karlborg failed to mention): THE CONTRETEMPS!

I have TWO collections at the TFB for Safe & Age-Appropriate Dance Ed - for stationery and food items and lifestyle items - dedicated to the ballet step seen in the combo. And this pic’s just the tank top, customizable in any color you dance nerds wish!

Also in the meantime - comment on how many contretemps you spotted in the above combo! Oh, and speaking of Ballet For All, here’s the breakdown of it!

[theclaravoyant]

what random artistic skill does Izzy possess go

my bet personally is that the man could rock a violin / fiddle

[nebulardrip-art]

be the change you want to see in the world. draw ptutu otp.

[kc5rings]

Ballet boots again

[alteredsilicone]

when it comes to my ocs sometimes i try a bit too hard for things to make sense

but Viri having a ballerina aesthetic is purely because of rule of cool... like, being a ballerina is hard work, they are fit and quite strong, and for a tenno i think dancing + fighting is a cool combo