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we are in moscow standing in front of one of versus most iconic symbols. it embodies greece, elegance, and the distress that goes on a grandiose scale, the bulk of the feeder, the

said long as i thought about is the prima ballerina of the ball shirley, and one of the most famous dancers of our time having graced all of the world's best stages she chooses to make the ball sway her home the taking the time to meet me here. and this is the imperial for a of the buffer theater in spectacular location. you've said that the boss right doesn't actually accept everybody. what do you mean by that? who does the boss, we accept it, that's the, it's a special place like so it's at this stage of the bull show you is not your typical stage needs, whatever it is steep in tradition need. so emotionally is it has a rich history with a great artist because of downstairs and seniors whose grace said lady in the z,

even on a psychological level in which crossing that line which separates the wings from the stage is not something everyone can do within the even died, beautiful auditoriums, where people watch the shows themselves. when you see it from the stage, your hard stops start loading. there's so much anxiety, not everyone is capable of overcoming that fear. so 1st of all, there's the psychological tension that some simply can't handle. and then of course, the stage of the both choice, special as i said before, not everyone has the presence to occupy it. and that's the record. when you enter it, you need to make an impression will go, but you need to own it because the stage is so big, the more to so not every artist has been successful in this regard, is not every artist has been happy on this stage of sticks broken up, i'm talking about our guest performers for me though. as soon as i walked on, i realized it was the place for me, my theater, my stage, my audience,

and i've been dancing at the ball show for 20 years now. it has seen some of my happiest performances. when you started your career, you are very young. and you have said yourself that when rehearsing yourselves descent into madness, that you had to rely on the cues of your instructor because you yourself had not experienced those emotions and didn't know exactly how to move through that, i guess. now, to what extent does the emotion play into your dance and how do you express that emotion in your dance? a, a bonus to kind of, i remember my teacher telling me where i was supposed to be her day and there's no but how i was suppose to show my heart a with the adjuster, because i see at the well, that doesn't where i was supposed to look so that the motion in the madness the scene would read, should the audience with it know, and i literally escalated wasn't just a life experience that helped to be billed me. the character of, she says, has a good performance experience to was,

i don't know how many times they've done. she said by now, as in russia and elsewhere. but each performance is unique because they're all different. i know it depends on who you're dancing with, in whose eyes you're looking skills that the how your partner takes you by the hand . incredible emotions. so you can empty out on that stage in the moment last thing . and what was the reason that they may not even be there during rehearsals, but if it's still numbers only, there's a stage magic that can turn that what the language line is, the heart of a and her partner. it provides entities and, and all of that are to make it real that how do we only an artist can tell you what amazing changes you or she can experience because at a moment like that, or that the motor for, when you're fully immersed in your role every role can be danced and slightly different ways. every story can be told with a variation. so like with a different feelings and in a different flight. i've never had 2 performances in my career that were exactly the same,

that kind of lasers. and there's something different every time and it makes things a very interesting but as one way of ocean city is kind of following along with that. and nothing happens in a vacuum. the motions actually affect an artist on stage, the plasticity of an artist on stage outside of motions or something. there's something that you cannot control when you're on stage. to look over here there's, i need to be able to control my to keep on stage talking about emotions. it's true that sometimes they can all to your plasticity and movement. and they can be hard to control of the music. let's say i feel like turning my head not like this with a duck like this today, most of the of the way it makes a difference. those are the words and it's a reflection of how i'm feeling at that moment. the deal is the, or maybe i feel like offering my hand not like this you, but like this good creates a different mood, the valet dancers and tell stories with their bodies. and what else? uh, slow utilities salem packages,

caustically speaking in the soil. and you can see our face as well, if you're sitting behind ro, 5 or 6 or this up like which means that we can only express our emotions with our souls before. which is how russians dance. they and our bodies move, move plastic until the you bring up a good point in some ways that the la gives a form to the intangible, something that we cannot grasp. it gives meaning in

a lot of ways. in this sense is belly understandable by everybody? is it for everybody or do you have to have that special unique quality to understand as a form of our there's this stereotype, god, valet is an art form for the chosen few. what am i strongly disagree? just as long as viewers do a little bit of homework to understand what the ballet is about, to assume what the artist are dancing about and what's happening on stage, then they'll get everything. the viewers will even think, gosh, it's a simple, after all, it actually makes perfect sense. why was afraid of going to evaluate the, for whatever made me think i wouldn't be able to understand it. that's because body language is simple and easily accessible and modern technology these days give us a greater range of tools and technology as well. modern dancers are like a job fleets and have grade or cap ability. and then the students,

everything has evolved or what they jump higher. do more turns to from crazy live in that it's all very impressive. should we cherish our solutions for sure. but we also try to build on them and try something new that. and so we like to showcase new possibilities to move dancers today even look different compared to 40 or 50 years ago as of if it's all very impressive as up by the move. so i thought that by the way, i have to point out the echo in this room. it's pretty intense. it's fun to play with. one of the interesting facts about the ball. so i guess classical ballet is often confined if you will. maybe that's not the right word by the idea of the choreographer. um, have you yourself ever thought about going into modern ballet or trying something a different so that you can have more freedom as an artist? the other question, that's the pros. great question. there are many new answers to consider here.

classical abilities have been around for centuries. at one point i realized there was no need to invent anything else. some of this valley is genius. as it is, all you need to do is perform it as brilliantly as it was choreographed. it helped me at the time because that was when i was in a spiral young valerie knox. but i used to think i should go like this or like just this stuff that can explain your deal. it just sits. and here i thought i should give this look for a place my foot in a different position i feel is keeps thinking of how to do everything my way back was staying within the boundaries of the initial choreography. because the system, when you call it every artist is unique. so we all have a certain, this disease kind of us, certain physical limits and techniques and stuff. so i stopped up the 1st thing about all those relevant things and just done with the right mood and with souls to him. it's always a great pleasure when the motion you've been trying to channel throughout the show

. lots that comes back to you from the audience. that was that i said, so that's the most important thing for me as an artist, left is the, the most iconic part of the bulk of the theater is it's a historic stage category. and another cover has been with the goals really for over 2 decades. and she's the white person to help us get a better understanding of what this theater is all about. the so it seems here we are in the big stage of the traditional hall. so it is said that no of the theater in the entire world can do with the bulk of the theater does. what does that mean to my video? it's very difficult to judge and the most roy's definitely unique festival by outstanding beauty of this whole, where we're staying with you, our historical and secondly, by the great size of,

mostly by all means will show it was always able to stage something to a big. there's lots of sets and also in the design and costs choose and numbers of outstanding arches and in the bali field as well. not many companies can perform classical bali on such a level as we can do because we don't have only just some outstanding condenser score. doing reading flies, we have a whole course of all a which is trained in the best possible way. so that's why when you look on the old harry page such as swan lake or by a there or some other titles where you need, if huge, quoted volley, united with the same b or c, then you definitely have to look after only very few companies in this world, such as bolshoi marines can made it very sore throat lascola and come and gun, but not many because truly a lot of efforts must be done. so b is to achieve such kind of level. what is the mission of the ball shape?

prime mission these of course, to promote functional item russian culture and the in that sense when we build our repertoire and also is there a procedure theater. so we have numbers of different titles every year in ball and in the order. but of course his goal is to she will do the phone from russian classics because we think if we don't perform russian cries, we come to proper way. who else in the world will do this? so this is our prime mission to preserve the highest point of rushing noise. and then of course, to show the highlights of wealth culture. so our 2nd goal is to perform old mazda 2 pieces, and of course, one of the main goal of the brochure as of industry, if it is much easier and it's a life unit. so we have to produce something new and we have to be getting in the sands and we have to move it forward. and when, as people speak about tradition, they tend to forget that one of the main foundation on this house is to produce new things, new music, and new productions, and to find new stars in been ball in the sales. now the classical stage is behind

us. it is fantastic to see, well, i think this whole it is a very how to say soccer or like very special whole for the russian soul. also because numbers of absolutely outstanding actors were coming on that stage mentally and trying to send you these people like police, you at scale along the law, offline of, out of here for a restful use done. or you just that to me was i camp latrice and they all were here and we were, we were thinking so also as all of the energy and all of the odd was on the stage and this was never taken away. we all feel we are on the different section on a full. she is our main leader. she leads us. so all the difficult times and as to the energy. i don't know how everyone feels. he also mean there's books to which we were looking if you was even trying to send you 114 leaders of different countries where sitting in this box watching fearful loses in the walls. i saw you name like

the guard or candidate or guys here. they all was eating g as well from that stage of their announced the verse of soviet union or the death of lanyon because this was also done on that stage. so this whole itself is very special, but this is also very particular. first of all, it's very, very, very beautiful and full of history. and sometimes we feel that it's effects people who come to work on the stage as in new directions, let's say, because they come with a very daring good use. and then they don't want this page. they look into this whole and all of a sudden, sometimes they really feel the heavy pressure, all this history and great things. this stage them give you much chance to do the stakes in what they are doing on that stage. oh, okay, so i have to ask you been here for many years? this is kind of a home for you. uh, has the audience changed over the years? i mean, why do people come to the ball? so what do they get from come here?

i would think that's more than 70 percent of our what is, has a tool of toys, of his art manuals people to come to the most golf courses and wants to come for they will show at least for the ones in this house. but i think big number of our orders are 2 lovers of this form of art. and those are the people who have been several times for the years. but very often people have particular fashion, either to visual voices, to the ultra as an art for towards the bali. and i'm lucky, i'm one of the people who love both opera and bella. now, earlier we talked about the balance between the old and classic and new works. what about set designs? the policy has a big, enormous, that's amazing. costumes. it's all part actually. is there ever a desire or an idea to move to a virtual sense or use technology to kind of enhance the performance or is it all traditional it's, it's kind of depend on the creators. in real theater,

you don't saved sort of stage design it just it all standing. she wouldn't be one stage, but of course one audience comfortable choice. they don't accept this concept of for theater. this is something they would not like to stay in the ball. so audience comes here, they expect songs being absolutely spectacular. i don't know, maybe in the future of staging something new production of some fee or a ball as we would use new technology is possible. but this new technology never can replace outstanding, showing things on stage. and then they also pete of course, of course. what about the costumes? um they are in an in themselves just great ornamental pieces of art. i understand they're all made right here. oh boy, it has a tradition to have its own workshop season. so for many years uh, i think also the history. we have our old workshops and the very advanced and our in custom department is really outstanding. i've been,

if you will look on numbers of our different productions, you will see absolutely outstanding costumes. and we'll see from the number of this cost it was, this is impressive for example, now for the medical over 200 customers. one made. and of course they can do more than costumes, and they can do all the questions and they can do questions for the ultra. and they can do to choose for the buyer or different kind of shapes of scripts as it's, as it's needed. now, a little bit of trivia for those who might not know the costume department is actually really easy, little to locate if you're looking at the most right. theater, if you see most or from the front, back to the apple or quadrant. you see the windows, which i gets to our custom department, the, the lot of people associated with belly. but also opera is incredibly important,

as we've been discussing, what makes an opera an opera? what makes it different from just being a people thinking on the stage and cost him unless you go to the call, sir? so what are you still? of course can enjoy any score be performed just like this in process. when you come to the theater kristof like who, who, who, who i, who has done with it as well. he wants to see a full scale performance. we want to see not fingers on stage, much characters on stage. we want to see drama. we want to see x one. to feel compassion. not only because of the 02 of the music, but because of the action which takes place on stage that why and why, why and proper altura production is really musical theater. i means the theater, where people perform. but as a performers, they have music to sink and not words to say

the was there to witness one of the big oper, premiers of the season that the mostly the renowned offer senior. so lowest of the partially theater of buddha client is going to help us understand more about this enigmatic ard for the

going to hello. hello. do you mind if i ask you a few questions? of course. so i guess my 1st question is does one have to understand opera and classical music in order to enjoy it? or can you just listen from your heart? you have the more store you this. i don't think it's enough to just close your eyes and enjoy the music. there's not, certainly you need to be able to understand opera. how does not oper as almost like a drug addicted to a, you're either totally addicted or you give up on it completely, or that's why are audiences aren't as large as other genres more accessible to everyone around the world? yes, so i believe understanding opera is important to, to because them, it will find its way into your soul. now, kind of a weird question, maybe, but do you ever think fun or for therapy, or is it just strictly work for you live in this way? it's a difficult question for me to answer. probably because i was born into the opera theater into it's not fear i was the essentially raised backstage to me. it's

impossible to live outside off from outside use. your voice must be very important to you. what happens if you're going through a difficult time in life, or if you're just even sick? how does that affect your voice? while of being an offer, simmer is more than just being a professional level. you have to be able to sing whatever condition you're in that they didn't put once i had to perform 5 days after my brother died and flows and if we were performing car man at autism, and it was one of the most challenging experiences of my life because of 2 and a person is in a state of grief, they don't have full command of their body, then use them, but the power of art is so and then that when i go on stage, i forget the 1st thing is going back to your previous question, it's a form of therapy because only on stage i truly forget about my problem. so the,

so when you're saying what do you want the audience to feel beautiful, which is near cause above all, i think the viewer has to be able to understand the character i'm playing. my will get to the words that we say or rather sing. and if i do not tell the full story, a singer always tries to present the character and opera through the sound, through intonation, to act as a sing ours, we always try to reach out to our audiences and makes them feel a whole range of emotion stuff and that includes sadness and melancholy, and it gives me great pleasure to see people crying in the audience because it

means we did a good job on stage presenting a tragic story or a sad one, or an emotionally intense one. it means we've been able to make people reach an emotional climax to see. well, that's true and i believe it means your real professional. if you can make people cry, a system that you are a human, which means you're small compared to the big stage. everything here has to be bigger than life. is a difficult to express emotions when you're just a tiny person on a big stage in the audience a so far away background use not. oh yes, definitely. and do you need to develop certain skills to be able to do it? i'm not, it's not enough just to be able to go deep into different emotions. because as you mentioned, the stage is huge. the 1st row was about 35 or 40 meters away. it was thinking about, i can't say exactly, but it's really far away. and as for the back seats,

we can't even see them from where we're standing. so it certainly involves exaggerated movements and facial expressions. you have to be very expressive, so everyone in the audience can see your emotions. we also use heavy makeup materials and when we things were mindful of voice projection with because our voice has, has to reach far and wide out. so the se, optical performance is always about exaggerating pretty much everything on stage boom, last big to back in the time of varying audiences used to sing along and they would share on the stars on stage. now that would be considered really taboo if you're here at the mostly, if you kind of ever wish for that to happen in opera, or you any more because it does happen, which is particularly with famous arias like cub, on your or delilah, to shoot some more common and concert to spend and offer us any i don't think it's really in the style of offer for the audience to sing along. although i think it's

couldn't be nice to have this choir, the audience choir, or join in on pieces like pretty ladon name, mobility, or even the have on euro. but i don't think it works within an actual opera performance some more. they think of us more than the new music. uh, there's a lot of computers involved guitars, different things. a lot of people say that the quality of music is going down. do you think that this will affect the opera? and if so, how? so? yeah, thank you, sir. i'm one of those people who believe that very little genuinely talented music history and created today all of these except move into our for centuries. but it also may be that we do not appreciate contemporary music deeply enough. it was more maybe a 100 years from now. there will be operas by some of today's lecture known composers, alongside mozart, verity and tchaikovsky. can you speak? so i think only time can tell me, suggest option is not the

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