Learn how to do a frappe ballet position for ballet dancing beginners in this free dance lesson video. Expert: Eileen O’Brien Bio: Eileen O’Briens staff at Suncoast Dance Academy in St. Petersburg, Fl., provides professional Dance training and performance experience in a nurturing environment. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
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if they are ”experts” then i am prima ballerina!
i dont want to be mean but it looks more degage because frappe means to ’strike’, which means you have to strike the floor with your foot and your foot is just pointing out in front of you and not touching the group
if you guys are so good, why don’t you guys do a video explaining the true thing…oh that’s right , you guys aren’t…
so shut up and get a life…
Yeah, I agree with you guiy16. It IS the teacher’s fault and people should realise that….and stop picking at the girl .-.
She was taught by a crap teacher…it’s not her fault :
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I agree, but personally I think that showing how a professional does it is a lot better since from the start you know what you have to strive for.
Her grip to the bar is appauling. She is supposed to touch it ever so gently. That way she builds her muscles. Its the teachers fault.
gah shes a beginner cut the girl some slack :/
Beautifully turned out first position? Terrible arms, posture, etc. I´m hatin´ these shitty videos.
questo video è da abolire.. è tutto sporco e brutto.. braccia rigide, brutta postura, brutta rotazione delle gambe e dei piedi.. pessima quella prima posizione,,
Not a Frappe … a classical frappe.
mm frape means to strike? she aint doint it right and her foot is sickled too
lmfao!!! .. i dont see the beautiful turn out, or first … then her arms, wow.. aweful!!! .. sec 18, lol its funny to see how someoone behind the camera tells her that her arm is wrong, she fixes it
not necessarily…
this is a different kind of frappe. not many studios still do this kind.
most do the one where your toes hit the floor next to your foot and brush out like a degage.
this ones a little more classical and teachers control.
and hey insulters,
these ballet classes are for FREE. That’s why they suck so bad. if you’re on youtube looking for “good technique” ballet lessons, then get off your ass and go pay for god damn classes at a studio. Geez.
arent you supposed to strike the floor when you frappe?
omggg soo bad!
OMG i am getting addicted to watching these videos,someone take them off PLEASE!!!
i was taught by my first teacher to do frapps with a wrapped foot to start with so it is possible to do both. depends on which technique you are taught i guess, i was vaganova trained, but in any case that is NOT a good frapp!
1 word LOOL that was bad
and then youv’e just got the babe standing on the left what was she there 4 anyway?
I don’t even know what to say. Those frappes aren’t even acceptable for a beginning adult drop in class. There are three methods on how to do a frappe, and even the Vaganova method, which maintains a pointed foot throughout, never terminates a terre. Disgraceful.
thats not dancing! :-/ it just wrong technic
she says “beautiful turnout” or “beautiful first” etc when it’s NOT beautiful.
I was always taught to frappe with a flexed foot… also, she looks like she’s doing tendu combo(even though her foot is wrapped, the way she puts her foot out is weird) not frappes.
that is definitely NOT a frappe. first of all, her head didn’t even move for the postitions. and your supposed to strike with the ball of your foot, not the point. dont teach this if you can’t do it right
:/ exactly
uhh, fail.
you know what gets me? she says its “on point.” first i’d like to say that was so not. she didn’t stand sur le point at all. and second its pronounced EN point. so not only is it a poor attempt at speaking french properly, but she was lying at even trying to say that. its sad really