Jazz class OST

We've had some great music (in my opinion) the past couple of times, on the Sunday jazz class I mean. I remember most of them, so here's a little soundtrack. Nothing quite "jazzy" in the strict meaning of the word, but good stuff anyway.

First: Warming up
With: Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Next up: Plies, tendus

With: Bruno Mars - Grenade

Followed by: Pirouettes

With: Michael Jackson - Bad

In diagonal: 3 x step & grand battement, 4th time jump & "kick"

With: Adele - Rolling In The Deep

Also in diagonal: 2x pique pirouette, then some chaines

Followed by: Sliding step towards the front corner, with big curved movement with the same side's hand (notice my _extremely_ accurate glossary here)

Third: 2 x the sliding stuff, then soutenu and finally grand jete en tournant

Last: Combine all three parts!

With: Adele - Set Fire to the Rain

Grande Finale: a short coreography

To this: Adele - One and Only (a nice video here, don't know much about the "originality")

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Music videos with ballet or "ballet - part two

Just found something Very Nice with a lot of help from my cousin Liisa :) Thank You!!!

As I said in part one, many times there's only Something Like Ballet in music videos, but this has The Real Deal. And the dancers are MEN! :) (Well, they were also in part one, but imitating women.)

Here you go:

Regina - "Saanko Jäädä Yöksi?"


p.s. The title in English: May I stay for the night? (...or something like that :))

Music videos with ballet or "ballet" - part one

Once in a while we bumb into a music video that has a dancer in it. And to be exact, I mean a ballerina. Or a male imitating one. Or then a male dancer. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes they make us wonder "Why have they done this??", sometimes something else. I thought I'd present some here, also to make myself remember them better. (Most are also songs that I Like :D)

We start with No more "I Love You's" - by the wonderful Annie Lennox.




Although the whole video is a parody of something, I like it. It has strong tones, the coloring matches the feeling. Lennox has other "quirky" videos, too, and I like them, too :D

Tomorrow it's ballet for me again, yay!