Dance
Ballerinas start dance but hilarious twist has crowd in stitches
Lol, this is impossible to watch just once.
Eduardo Gaskell
02.28.24

The Italian Renaissance helped developed a dance as court entertainment in the 15th and 16th centuries.

It became formalized over time, with the dance moving to France after the marriage of the Italian-born aristocrat Catherine de Mรฉdicis to Henry II of France.

Weโ€™re talking ballet, of course.

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Ballet has such an intriguing history no wonder itโ€™s incorporated in many films even today.

It later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia, eventually evolving into a widespread and highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary.

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It is beautiful and mesmerizing to watch, no wonder little girls love getting into the dance.

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But hereโ€™s Ballet executed away from its usual perfectionist stride.

NYC ballet master Jerome Robbins is widely considered as the greatest American-born choreographer of the 20th century.

Youโ€™re about to see why.

He has played a crucial role in the New York City Ballet, choreographing really impressive Broadway shows including West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof.

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So this parody of the dance is actually done on purpose.

โ€œThe Mistake Waltzโ€ is an anthology of screw ups choreographed for entertainment reasons.

You think dancing in sync is hard?

Try dancing to make mistakes on purpose.

Robbins spreads the clowning between all six members well, the mistakes unpredictable to the audience but executed in fashion.

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The dancers perform well, graceful but silly when needed to be, to the point that it looks improvised.

This is the legendary choreographerโ€™s work, where everything is done to the beat and the melody in perfect timing.

Watch these talented dancers fall out of time and forget some of their moves.

One stands in the wrong place while the other passive-aggressively corrects her.

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Their amusing performance has racked up over 8M views.

A viewer was so impressed that he said,

โ€œThis dance becomes even more amazing when you realize that itโ€™s harder to choreograph mistakes as a ballerina. like itโ€™s literally ingrained into you that you have to be perfect 100% of the time, so for most ballerinaโ€™s a dance thatโ€™s literally full of mistakes is extremely difficult to catch onto.โ€

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But another had an interesting story to share.

โ€œLegend has it that this dance was invented because of a certain group of dancers who missed a lot of practices. They did this in the performance and everyone loved it.โ€

Is that true?

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It is a dance done to Chopinโ€™s โ€˜Mistakeโ€™ Waltz in E minor but who would have come up with this?

The mistakes are done sparingly, to not make the performance predictable and even stale.

So look at the dancer on the right who just seemed to miss most of the steps and the timing.

You can hear the audience chuckling while the other dancers glare at her and correct her steps whenever they can.

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Itโ€™s both brilliant and hilarious!

If you were in the audience, chances are you have almost zero knowledge of the dance so you couldnโ€™t tell whatโ€™s real or not.

And thatโ€™s why this โ€œmistakeโ€ works so well!

Try to catch the dancersโ€™ mistakes in the video below!

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