- That one was the best we've done.
00:09
- We're here at the Los Angeles ballet
00:12
to finally do what you've been asking for
00:13
- There's a reason we have not done it.
00:17
This is impossible.
00:19
- My sister is a ballerina.
00:20
She did dance ever since
she was four years old
00:22
and so I've picked her up from practices
00:25
so I kinda get the lingo.
00:27
- I went to a school of theater and dance.
00:29
I'm the only TryGuy with a dance diploma.
00:31
College educated motherfucker!
00:34
I did not take a dance class
00:36
- I have a stupid Benjamin
Button old man baby body.
00:37
I am the most brittle inflexible man
00:41
that has ever lived.
00:43
- I'm not ballet trained at all.
00:45
I'm actually only pretty great
00:46
in the hip hop realm, so I'm going
00:47
into this as fresh as the other guys.
00:49
- We're going to be graceful,
we're going to be poised
00:51
and we're going to fall on our butts.
00:53
- It is your fault. You wanted this.
00:56
You requested this video.
00:58
When I'm in pain it is your fault, Leslie.
01:00
(TryGuy theme music)
01:03
- So my name is Bianca Bulle.
01:16
I'm a principal dancer with
the Los Angeles Ballet.
01:17
- That means you're one of the best ones?
01:21
- I'm actually the only principal dancer.
01:22
- So that means you're the best!
01:24
- So you're the best one!
01:25
- [Bianca] You guys are going
to learn a few ballet routines
01:27
and then finally you'll get
to perform them onstage.
01:30
- So we're going to be training
with seasoned professionals.
01:33
- Young ones.(laughs)
01:37
We have first position.
01:39
Our heels are touching and
knees are squeezed together.
01:40
Your bottom is also squeezed.
01:44
You're lifting up and
your toes are turned out
01:45
as far as they possibly can
be without being behind you.
01:48
Second position you turn until your arm
01:53
reaches to the side.
01:54
Your a foots distance away--
01:55
Third position is half--
01:59
Let's run it from the top!
02:04
- How could you do that Keith?
02:06
- I don't know how I
could do it I just can.
02:07
- Thank you, I'm the best!
02:11
- How long have you both been dancing?
02:13
- Were you born into ballet?
02:17
- I thought you guys were seven.
02:18
- That's 70% of your
life has been plieing.
02:19
- [Bianca] We usually start
young just because it is such
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an intricate thing to learn
and to form your joints.
02:24
- Side. Tu fe. Side--
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As you're growing you want
your joints to be open
02:31
and your feet to be flexible because--
02:33
- So you're like beautiful dance mutants.
02:36
- I was gonna say mutants!
02:37
- I'm not allowed to sit down?
02:40
I just got yelled at by a
ten-year old for sitting.
02:42
You're not allowed to sit in
ballet because it not proper.
02:45
I hate everything about this.
02:48
They're lovely children.
02:49
- It's the cool part.
02:51
- It's the cool part.
02:51
- This part's pretty cool too.
02:53
I don't know about this part.
02:53
Actually those two are doing really well.
02:55
It's just those two.
02:57
- Did a little warm-up with barre
02:58
so we're ready for center
and we're going to do
02:59
a couple of exercises across the floor.
03:01
So you step out and you pique
03:03
- [Ned] How do you not get super dizzy?
03:10
- You use your spot.
03:11
So we spot our head.
03:13
- [Ned] Okay, I didn't do that.
03:15
- [Eugene] Oww! (laughter)
03:18
- Is it a good idea at age
30 as a male to start trying
03:19
to open your joints?
03:23
- Great let's do it.
03:25
- Wait that's just the warmup.
03:31
- That's just the warmup
03:32
Do you sleep in a giant music box?
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- You're wearing pointe shoes now.
03:40
- So you crunch up your
toes and you're like
03:44
you're on like your toe knuckles?
03:45
- No, you're actually dead on the tiptoes.
03:47
- How do your toenails not fall off?
03:50
- Do professionals get hurt?
03:54
- Yeah professionals get hurt
03:55
- Ah! I gotta toe cramp.
03:58
- [Keith] Ned what are you doing?
04:00
- [Bianca] It's hurting
underneath it all but we're
04:01
trying to make it all
look beautiful on top.
04:03
- How much fried chicken do
you say you eat in a week?
04:05
- I hate fried chicken.
04:09
(needle screeching on album)
04:11
- Can you demonstrate a few
04:13
classic pointe moves for us?
04:14
- So this is a sus-sous.
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And then we can go to passe.
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And we can do a little arabesque.
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- Why is everything in French?
04:25
- It's effortlessly graceful.
04:28
- Well you guys can try if you'd like.
04:31
- Yeah I can't get in.
04:34
- [Ned] Get in there baby!
04:35
- [Keith] Ned you got it in!
04:36
- You have a tiny foot.
04:39
- I have dancer feet.
04:39
- I don't want to do this.
04:41
- I know I don't think we can.
04:42
- I don't think I can either.
04:43
- Now try and straighten your knee.
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- What are you talking about?
04:47
- I know but that's why I'm whispering.
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I don't want to do this.
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- I'm gonna hurt myself.
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Are we gonna hurt ourselves?
04:55
- I do feel like my ankle's about to snap.
05:00
- Oh that's so painful!
05:04
- Well this was just awful.
05:12
Thank you for sharing.
05:13
- Let's get to the routine, yeah?
05:14
- So now we're gonna
do a condensed version
05:16
of Waltz of the Flowers.
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Great so we're on our knee.
05:19
There's four waltz...
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Pom pom pom, pom pom pom.
05:22
My day begins with
rehearsals for the ballets
05:24
that we're performing.
05:26
So that might be two or three
05:27
or just the one if it's
a full-length piece.
05:28
- This sorta feels like we're
doing a limp Jesus right now.
05:30
- You're just gonna be still for that.
05:33
We rehearse that until
four-thirty in the afternoon
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and we go home and
recover, and ice, and eat
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and do it again the next day.
05:40
We get lots of injuries or--
05:47
- What's your ice budget?
05:49
- Three, four, pique.
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I told you it's coming.
05:56
- [Ned] Is it fair to say that
06:01
if you keep a good face
and move the hands,
06:02
people won't pay attention to the feet?
06:05
- We are actually really trying.
06:08
It just looks like we're
parodying the moves.
06:10
- Oohhhh, I only did hip-hop dancing.
06:21
I'm not gonna be good at this.
06:23
- [Ned] This is exhausting me fully.
06:26
I'm wrecked already.
06:29
- How about to make you
feel how a ballerina feels
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we put on some tutus for you?
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So you feel like it's the real deal.
06:37
- Does this mean we're in
the Los Angeles Ballet?
06:47
Thank you so much for getting us in.
06:48
- This will mask all of my bad feet moves.
06:52
- I totally understand
the appeal of tutus now,
06:54
because all I wanna do
is try the routine again,
06:56
Yeah, with the tutus.
07:00
- Put it all together.
07:00
- [Bianca] (mumbles)
07:01
(Waltz of the Flowers)
07:02
- It's like you do all these
complicated moves and then
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you also have to look graceful.
07:21
- [Bianca] (mumbles)
07:23
- It's about like which
leg is doing what and then
07:33
you're trying to keep
your arms and your torso
07:35
It's very little and yet it's so much.
07:37
Yeahh!! (music ends)
07:43
- My glasses totally snapped and broke.
07:45
I balleted too hard and my glasses broke.
07:49
- We're gonna learn the Russian Dance,
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which is a male dance full of tricks, fun,
07:54
- Whooo! He almost kicked me in the balls.
08:00
- And lots of turns,
08:03
flying across the floor.
08:06
- [Zach] Stuff that's gonna be too hard.
08:07
- It's gonna be hard.
08:08
It's gonna be very different
from the Waltz of the Flowers.
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It's much sharper in the movement.
08:12
You don't have to be flowing soft,
08:14
it's almost better to
look like you're really
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putting your effort into it.
08:18
You're gonna touch your
toes both in the air
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so you go, jump and (mumbles).
08:22
It's a personal journey and
you're constantly trying
08:23
- Noooo, no it's not.
08:29
- Am I not going to become
a beautiful bird-person
08:31
at the end of this?
08:33
- Is that what happens
at the end of Black Swan?
08:34
- Yeah she becomes a,
08:35
did you not see the movie?
08:36
- Something much darker happens
at the end of Black Swan--
08:37
- It's a crazy movie, bro.
08:39
And one, two, three, four, jump.
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Try and get those legs straight.
08:51
- This is easily the hardest
dance we've ever done.
08:58
I'm the most tired I've ever been.
09:03
I thought I was in shape but, I'm not.
09:05
- [Eugene] Five. Six.
09:07
This is a, a pure
exhaustion of every joint.
09:08
- This is hard work.
09:11
- I think, this might be the first time
09:13
in a TryGuys video where people say,
09:14
"That really sucked!"
09:16
- Aww Eugene hit me in the nuts!
09:19
- Bianca what is your final
words of advice for us?
09:21
- Just give it your all.
09:24
You gave it a really good go.
09:26
- All right guys let's head to the stage.
09:28
- That was really, not elegant--
09:34
- You wiped that right?
09:35
- So here we are, a couple
weeks after our rehearsal
09:37
with Bianca and the LA Ballet.
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I can guarantee that there's
no way we can fake this.
09:41
You are gonna see every single fault.
09:43
Ned basically has very little rhythm.
09:44
- Hopefully everyone's
just basically distracted
09:47
by me roguish good looks
and fierce contour.
09:49
- Zach has physical disorders
09:52
that prevent him from moving properly.
09:53
- I feel like I'm going
to disgrace the art form.
09:55
- And Keith is a gangly giant klutz.
09:57
- I think the Russian Dance is too hard.
10:00
But you know our current
relationship with Russia
10:02
isn't that great, so I think that's okay.
10:03
I really don't wanna
pay respects to Russia.
10:06
I'd rather not do it right.
10:08
- Alright comrades we go
back and do NutCracker, yes?
10:09
- Cracks nuts on three.
10:14
- Almost! (laughter)
11:25
- That was really, really hard.
11:27
- Yeah, the men's dance is so athletic!
11:28
Its like we had to jump so much.
11:30
- Could we put on those tutus?
11:33
- [Makeup Person} How do you Feel?
11:36
- I hate eye stuff.
11:37
- You look like a 50's
librarian housewife.
11:40
- [Zach] You look like such a bitch.
11:43
Yeah looks like a bitch!
11:45
- [Eugene] Look like
such a bitch in makeup.
11:46
- I look like the evil
popular girl at the (mumbles).
11:49
- Yeah! We hate you!
11:51
- I'm deaf in one ear.
11:56
- She's also deaf in one ear.
11:57
You are sooo pretty!
12:00
- They talk about the
discipline of ballet.
12:02
They never talk about, the fun.
12:04
(Waltz of the Flowers)
12:09
- I consider myself someone
who can dance but ballet
13:29
is on a whole nother stratosphere.
13:31
Send much respect to all
the ballerinas out there.
13:33
Cuz you all are much tougher
than any other expert
13:35
that we've ever come across.
13:38
- You have to grow up with
your legs facing this way.
13:39
You have to be a spider-human,
13:42
and then be graceful
with your spider body.
13:44
- The first thing I want
to do is call my sister
13:46
right now because I
kind of understand what
13:48
she had to go through.
13:51
I tried to go upstairs
earlier and I screamed.
13:52
- [Keith] Ballerinas are superhuman.
13:54
They make it look so graceful.
13:56
And they are masking, pain.
13:58
If you ever run into a ballerina
just start bowing to them.
14:00
- [Eugene} I'm actually really
proud of the other TryGuys
14:04
because, as bad of
dancers as they can be--
14:05
- [Keith] They gave it their all.
14:08
- Even though no one can do ballet
14:09
unless you're a professional,
14:11
you can at least gain
an appreciation for it.
14:12
- We'll see you next time!
14:14
Thanks for watching!
14:15
We tried and got hurt a lot instead.
14:16
Thanks a lot everybody!
14:19
Thanks for suggesting this (mumbles).
14:20
- Welcome Carly, I'm Madison.
14:27
It's a pleasure to have you here.
14:29
- I'm deaf in one ear.
14:33
- Oh I'm sorry to hear that. (laugh track)
14:34
- Oh this is Sasha.
14:37
- Okay factory dildo rejects.
14:38
Let's get into position.
14:39
- I have better people to be around.
14:42
- She's my best friend.
14:44
- Carly, are we gonna be best friends?
14:45
- Let's start the music before I die.
14:48
- No I can't hear the music
14:51
I can't hear the music.
14:52