DanceCrazy: Dance Lessons DVD Series

Stretch for a leg split in ballet by warming up the hamstrings and hips with all of the plies, and do a hamstring stretch starting with the knees on the floor and moving in to a split stretch. Stretch the hamstring forward and keep the hips warm and open for the splits with help from an experienced dance instructor in this free video ballet lesson.

Expert: Lauri Gregoire
Contact: www.bellevuedancecenter.com
Bio: Lauri Gregoire is the owner and director of the Bellevue Dance Center.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

Duration : 0:1:23

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08 23rd, 2009

When performing a pirouette in ballet, allow the head to move freely, keep the arms in the port de bras position and keep the legs on the balls of the feet. Avoid doing a flat-footed pirouette turn with help from an experienced dance instructor in this free video ballet lesson.

Expert: Lauri Gregoire
Contact: www.bellevuedancecenter.com
Bio: Lauri Gregoire is the owner and director of the Bellevue Dance Center.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge

Duration : 0:2:5

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Discover the joy of the performing arts at Sherrie’s Dance Studio in El Sobrante, California. From tap to ballet to jazz to you name it, your choice of classes is only outnumbered by Sherri’s years of experience. Click to see Sherrie and her dance troupe!
Visit us http://www.yellowpages.com/info-21957687/Sherries-Dance-Studio?from=youtb

Duration : 0:1:17

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Hip Hop/(comedy) piece set by Scott Leigh at Asbury Arts Center in Green Cove Springs near Middleburg and Orange Park. Studio offers full dance program, music, and martial arts.

Duration : 0:3:56

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This is a great part to the film… it shows Billy mess up his audition to the royal ballet school… but the speech he gives at the end pulls it back.. using the lyrics ♫ Suddenly I’m flying, flying like a bird, Like Electricity, electricity, Sparks inside of me, and I’m free, I’m free ♫ Electricity by elton john ***I DO NOT OWN THIS VIDEO, IT IS FOR VIEWING PURPOSES ONLY*** Billy then gets into the royal ballet school and spends years and years dancing before showing his dad in the last 2 mins of the show, in a live show infront of hunderds… hope you enjoy this WEST END BILLY ELLIOT ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL

1. Stars Look Down
2. Shine
3. Grandma’s Song
4. Solidarity
5. Expressing Yourself
6. Letter
7. Born to Boogie
8. Angry Dance
9. Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher
10. Deep into the Ground
1. Letter [*]
2. Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher [*]
3. Electricity [*]

Dancing, rock and roll rock’n'roll pairs, disco freestyle, ballet, ballroom dancing fishing dancing competitions breane brean birmingham Britons got talent britans got talent england english liverpool football club everton ipswich all dancing singing west end elton john

Duration : 0:8:4

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08 1st, 2009

Dreamin’ of dancin’? Try a free lesson at Garri Dance Studio in Burbank, California. The multi-disciplinary studio explores many styles, including ballet, hip hop, tap, hula and more. Schedule your trial lesson today!
Visit us http://www.yellowpages.com/info-22941691/Garri-Dance-Studio?from=youtb

Duration : 0:1:26

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This 6 part documentary on the Moscow Choreographic Academy , the actual name of the Bolshoi Ballet school , looks at the 2002/2003 ballet school year. There are four different students that this film focuses on. The main student is Natalia Osipova , who was 16 years old in 2002 and after finishing her seventh, and next to last year in the school, was 17 years old. After briefly showing Osipova in a school performance, they show the tryouts of the applicants for the first year of the school. Then it skips to the first day of the school year in September and progresses during the year. Osipova, is shown in class, in rehearsal and in performance at the graduation exams. She is shown dancing the Rose Adagio from Sleeping Beauty. She is also seen winning the grand prize at the Luxembourg ballet competition. The youngest student shown is the first year boy, Pasha Kozlov . It is interesting that when his parents come to Moscow to see their son in his graduation exams, his father mentions that he has never been in Moscow before. If Pasha is still at the school, he would have just finished his 6th year, with two years left. The final students are very unique in terms of what has happened to their careers. They are Kirill Safin and his younger brother, Igor Safin. Kirill graduated in 2006 and Igor 2007. They took a very unusual route in their ballet careers from the Moscow Choreographic school, ending up at the Mariinsky Theater. Igor has finished his first year with the Mariinsky (I like to call it Kirov ) and Kirill finished his second year. Both are in the corps de ballet, but Kirill has danced many solo roles. Kirill has been rehearsing Solor , so there is a possibility that he might have his first principal role in the upcoming year in Bayadere . His coach, the former Kirov star, Sergei Vikhulov , expects a promising career for Kirill. The director of the Bolshoi school is Marina Leonova, who is shown often in this documentary. I am not certain, but one of the parts in these videos ends and the next video starts with a boys class that Leonova enters. I think the teacher is the former Bolshoi ballet star, Yuri Vasyuchenko .

Duration : 0:10:5

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This 6 part documentary on the Moscow Choreographic Academy , the actual name of the Bolshoi Ballet school , looks at the 2002/2003 ballet school year. There are four different students that this film focuses on. The main student is Natalia Osipova , who was 16 years old in 2002 and after finishing her seventh, and next to last year in the school, was 17 years old. After briefly showing Osipova in a school performance, they show the tryouts of the applicants for the first year of the school. Then it skips to the first day of the school year in September and progresses during the year. Osipova, is shown in class, in rehearsal and in performance at the graduation exams. She is shown dancing the Rose Adagio from Sleeping Beauty. She is also seen winning the grand prize at the Luxembourg ballet competition. The youngest student shown is the first year boy, Pasha Kozlov . It is interesting that when his parents come to Moscow to see their son in his graduation exams, his father mentions that he has never been in Moscow before. If Pasha is still at the school, he would have just finished his 6th year, with two years left. The final students are very unique in terms of what has happened to their careers. They are Kirill Safin and his younger brother, Igor Safin. Kirill graduated in 2006 and Igor 2007. They took a very unusual route in their ballet careers from the Moscow Choreographic school, ending up at the Mariinsky Theater. Igor has finished his first year with the Mariinsky (I like to call it Kirov ) and Kirill finished his second year. Both are in the corps de ballet, but Kirill has danced many solo roles. Kirill has been rehearsing Solor , so there is a possibility that he might have his first principal role in the upcoming year in Bayadere . His coach, the former Kirov star, Sergei Vikhulov , expects a promising career for Kirill. The director of the Bolshoi school is Marina Leonova, who is shown often in this documentary. I am not certain, but one of the parts in these videos ends and the next video starts with a boys class that Leonova enters. I think the teacher is the former Bolshoi ballet star, Yuri Vasyuchenko .

Duration : 0:10:11

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today ballet class

Author: admin
06 8th, 2009

I’m a ballet teacher in Bolshoi ballet academy Moscow.
Today was simple lesson, but some of my kids were sick and did not take class. Instead - he played with video camera.
The result you can see here…
Music: just the first thing I see on my comp.

Duration : 0:4:19

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This video is from an 8 class series of videos (every video is approximately two hours long and the 8th is close to 3 hours), starring former Kirov Mariinsky ballerina , Galina Mezentseva , demonstrating ballet class lessons from beginner to advanced level over an 8 year program. Mezentseva graduated from the Vaganova Academy School which had an 8 year program, based on the teaching of Agrippina Vaganova . This Educational Ballet DVD is entitled: “Classical Ballet Lesson” End of Advanced Level (The end of the 8th Class of the 8 Year Program for the Study of Classical Dance) is written, narrated and directed by Professor Peggy Willis-Aarnio and demonstrated by Prima Ballerina Galina Mezentseva and two of Prof. Peggy Willis-Aarnio’s students. It is the eight and final in a series of eight DVD’s showing a demonstration lesson from each of the 8 years for the Study of Classical Dance. It is for demonstration purposes only and not meant to be copied or imitated. Any teacher interested in learning how to teach classical ballet should contact Prof. Willis-Aarnio at wiballet@msn.com. Anyone who wishes to purchase any or all of these Educational DVD’s should contact: wiballet@msn.com, or go to their website at www.willisballet.com and click on the button “Products”. “. INCIDENTALLY, I HAVE NEVER MET PEGGY.

Duration : 0:9:38

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