Giselle–Act I Peasant Variation

My teacher has taken a renewed interest in using the music for the peasant variation in Giselle, which I happen to really like as well.

Here’s a crazy performance of this variation, with the fastest footwork I’ve ever seen – she seems to be flying across the stage!

Here’s another variation with jumps in the second theme instead of pointe work. It makes me sad, cos we did jumps in class to this music and they’re so difficult to just do the simplest of entrechats, much less what you see on stage.

Again – why is ballet so difficult?!