Top 10 Hardest Ballet Moves to Pull Off

The hardest ballet moves will keep you on your toes. For this list, we’ll be looking at some of the most difficult moves in one of the most difficult dance styles ever invented. Our countdown includes Pirouette, Grand Adage, Tour de Reins, and more! What do YOU think is the hardest ballet move? Let us know in the comments!

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[minissa]

I feel like whoever wrote the text for this video just went to a few ballet classes and a performance or two and wrote down some random steps that sounded cool in French. Arabesque and pirouette are things a first year student learns, and pique turns are probably the easiest to do multiple times. I agree with what a lot of others have said---tours in second are very hard because angular momentum is fighting you when you pull your arms in to go onto half-pointe or pointe. Brisee vole would top my list. And grand adage is not a step but a sequence and quality of movement, plus it's in just about every ballet and not rare at all. (Also, barrel turns can be done with the front leg bent or not.) And let's not forget the "540"! Great footage, though!

[MiaKurtz]

here would be my top 10 as a ballet student: promenade en pointe, hops en pointe on one foot, double lame duck, a la seconde turns, italian (and russian) fouettés, cabriole, renverse, cambre in develope devant, petit allegro in general, and grand sissone. some of the ones in the video are actually quite easy for me haha.

[Friendlyfire]

Ballet is so hard not just because its has complicated moves, but because it HAS to look effortless and elegant at every single second, its perfection

[Caroline-jtez]

Arabesque, pirouette and piqué turns are easier, they get taught to you earlier. I did ballet for 9 years and what was hard for me was fouettés, cabriole, and entrechat. Frappes are easy if you have good foot control/strength.

[tara]

A pique is one of the first moves you learn in kiddie ballet classes at 5 years old bro

[m.x.b.]

Every ballet dancer is different. What one dancer loves and finds easy another might avoid at all costs. For example, I can't do fouettes for my life but doesn't matter the day I can basically pull out double piques turns any day, on flat or en pointe. My friend can penché all day, but doesn't like to feel she struggles a lot more with Italian fouettes. It also depends upon training. If you are a female dance trained en pointe and for 'female' roles a tour is going to be much harder.

[hollylee]

i guess that you could say pirouettes are more annoying than tricky. doing multiple, especially on pointe, can be a challenge, but i would say that there are many other challenging steps that beat it in its hardness scale

[madeleine]

Anyone else here enjoying the actual dancers mocking the list more than the video?

[emmushu]

I danced pre-professionally and the only one I truly agreed with was Italian fouettes. especially in Pointe shoes. in my opinion if you have a good teacher and a safe place, most of these are easy to learn.

[rebecacubero]

As a dancer, a lot of these steps are really not that difficult. I find Italian fouettés way harder (and scarier) than other fouettés.

[jbboyd]

It’s hilarious to listen to non dancers talk about ballet 😂

[isabelaandzico]

Piqué turns are easy. Who made this list? Definitely NOT a professional ballerina 🩰

[m.x.b.]

ALSO, a grand jete and saut de chat are two DIFFERENT steps. When talking about grand jetes you show several moments when a dancer is doing a saut de chat. A grand jete is a jump, much like the saut de chat where the dancer seeks to make a split in the air, but the dancer must brush through the front leg straight vs. saut de chat where the dance comes off of one bent knee while the other comes through a developer and kicks up. At 7:56 in the video you can see an actual grand jete, at 8:01 the dancer then switches to the saut de chat.

[EllaDanz-mbse]

I learned a pique wayyyy before a pirouette it’s so much easier. Also I find arabesques easy since at my studio we teach them at a young age so you’re always learning more

[Khous-ygur]

An arabesque is not that difficult at all, it pretty much just requires some flexibility and balance. Y'all even said in the video "most amateur dancers could do an arabesque" so if most amateurs can do it then how is it considered one of the hards moves??

[Jelly.Fish]

Personally, I can do most of these and I am def not a professional. The frappes, arabesques and pirouettes are what you learn when you first start dance. I would add switch leaps because those are pretty hard. Grand Jetes are also kinda easy too. There are many other dance moves that are way harder.

[technicolordreamer]

Centerstage was one of my favorite movies to watch growing up. I always wanted to be able to do some of those moves so badly!

[catherine-ek]

as a ballet dancer seeing grand jetés and frappés on this list cracked me up

[catmom]

Ballet dancers are marvelous athletes. Kudos! Too bad there's no gold medal for these incredible athletes.

[Sally]

Thank you so very much!!
As a novice to viewing ballet this gives me a deeper understanding of the art.
Gratitude!