was the case but that the government would get to the bottom of it. mps returned to westminster on tuesday forming long queues, in line with social distancing rules, as they prepared to decide how they should hold hold votes companies when the current in the house of commons from now on. isolation period ends. so our third years will be taking the government wanted to end auditions for companies outside, the virtual, or online, so they would have finished, system which was introduced in april they would have got — and to return to voting in person. they would get their diploma injuly, after a school performance. but critics say such a move they are already auditioning would exclude vulnerable mps for all sorts of different companies and those with caring responsibilities. all over the world so, you know, in order to find a job. our chief political correspondent that's everybody. head of year and joel's tutor mr yow vicki young has the latest. has guided them throughout. ok, so last time we got to see mps had been told you doing nutcracker... to set an example and get back to work. this afternoon, the class rehearsed pas de deux. for some it's a round trip piano plays. it is quite scary for the students of almost 1500 miles. to go out there in the big world a journey in excess of 18 hours after being in a school for three years with the same friends. for something that frankly is of questionable necessity. but once you're out there, you have to look after yourself. so we actually, as a school, others say it's their duty to return try to prepare them for that. to parliament rather than take joel is one of our students. he is very professional. part via video link. after hours of technical classes,

later in the day the students get my home is here on the island to practise their own choreography. of anglesey, third—year innis‘s piece and i'm going to westminster is based on swan lake. to do thejob five, six, seven, eight! that i was democratically you can choose any music and then you get four dancers — elected to do. or more, if you want. but what about government advice i have three. i don't have a name for it yet during the coronavirus pandemic? but i've chosen indian music. the government have said it is based on contemporary and kathak. if we can work from home, you need that... i need that passe. oh, wait, shouldn't we do this? we should, to avoid risking spreading the virus, we did a passe! but here we are from yeah, yeah, we did it. this is the beginning. all corners of the uk, yeah. heading to westminster. as well as the movements, the parliamentary authorities joel is working out the soundtrack with his classmate ludmila. had installed a virtual system so mps not in the commons it's one of their last projects could still quiz the prime minister together before they leave college. and others from home. and will he act now...? it's a bit sad, because we've known each other for a long time and knowing that from next year, we're not going to have each other for the first time, electronic voting was allowed too. to come to talk to, so it's but today the leader of the commons said that must be going to be very sad. done in person. voting while enjoying a sunny walk or whilst watching as this chapter of their lives, television does democracy an injustice. the solemn decisions we take together affect the lives the bonds formed during their of millions of people in this country. halcyon days at college will stay we ask members with the students long to vote in person after they have left. for a reason because it is the heart of what parliament is about. some mps can't come back we are very close. here because they or a family we — i think we've grown more into, member are shielding at home like, very good friends.

for medical reasons. when i first metjoel, it was so interesting to hear stories of, you know, they are furious that they can't where he'd came from. it is really quite amazing represent their constituents. and inspiring how far he's come there is no logic, no reason, and how lovely he is as a person and a dancer. we share a passion. no justification, for not allowing mps who genuinely can't go in to have some kind of vote, whether by proxy or online. for those who did make it, there's a new voting system, i think i've gotten closer with most supposedly designed to ensure social distancing. but as these pictures of my school classmates. filmed by mps show... everyone has started getting close no idea what that queue is! but in the beginning, because it was new competition, ..it does involve a lot of queueing. no—one really wanted to talk to anyone else, it's really lonely. the speaker was doing his best to speed things along. sometimes you get homesick, come on! there's other members waiting, i am not going to lie. sometimes, when i've been walking i think it's very unfair. around london and i see a picture but after a long wait, of my mum on facebook many mps weren't impressed. while i'm on facebook, and i am like, "oh, kevin brennan, voting aye in the mock shambles. tugendhat, after an yeah, i miss my mum". hour's waiting, aye. thank you. lloyd russell—moyle, aye. what a farce. for three years, joel has been the votes took three times longer than usual. living with a london family, but despite the inconvenience mps backed the plan so he has four new to end electronic voting. surrogate sisters. tomorrow they could be but now, joel will soon be reunited queueing in the rain.

vicki young, bbc with his family as he has been offered a unique opportunity news, westminster. to return to nairobi to play romeo, with the dancer who first discovered him playing juliet. now on bbc news, it is going to be boiling all day long doing ballet. kenya's dance discovery. it's going to be emotional because we share so much and, especially with romeo and juliet, it's like — one month since the coronavirus it's all about love. lockdown started, 19—year—old joel kioko completes daily ballet i know something good classes at his home in london, is going to be created. soon, joel will once again meet the dancers who discovered him with instructions coming as a boy. touchdown! in from his teacher via zoom. demi—detourne. so we're going to one derriere. of the studios, which is in hardy — stretch out a little bit. that's where we're going — switch davant fondu. but we're going to rehearsal second. because we only have let go of the bar. front reverse the port de bras... a week to put this on. romeo and juliet is being staged under the directorship back in february, joel of american ballet dancer cooper rust, who founded was taking his final classes at the english national ballet dance centre kenya. school and preparing for a major challenge — the leading

role in romeo and juliet at the kenyan national theatre. dance is taking over nairobi and even spreading beyond. the employment opportunities with classical ballet, in the city that has 40% you're always learning something. unemployment and now all of a sudden, there's dance that's how i see it — teachers and it is an opportunity i don't know how other people see it for people to make a living — and especially for me, through dance and i am just because i started late, as excited about training future i have so much to learn. dance teachers and having more of these little studios around joel has come a long way nairobi and around kenya as i am since his upbringing in the kuwinda about training dancers that slums, where his incredible are leaving kenya and talent was spotted. he's the first student from an emerging classical ballet scene in nairobi to train going abroad, like joel. professionally in london. sometimes, when i am annabel shaw, playing in class, i am like — juliet, from the northern i have never seen that before and manchester city ballet but i have to play with it is on hand to greet him. because later on, i'll go romeo and juliet is into the studios and i'll play my favourite ballet. with a certain movement that i've seen that i've never seen before i think the score, prokofiev's music, isjust to die for. and i'll practice and i'll do until it will be perfect. i think it's gorgeous. but i think i'm comfortable to go when cooper told me kind of, yeah, only five weeks ago, out there and start dancing. "oh, you're going to do romeo and juliet. you're going to be juliet. i just want everyone to just joel is coming but he is not get a job and dance. arriving until a week before the show," i was kind

to reach this stage of like "oh, 0k!" in the competitive ballet world has 00:05:02,932 --> 2147483051:39:16,181 been hard work, and the dancers 2147483051:39:16,181 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 will take up places in international the cast have already been rehearsing for three weeks asjoel arrives, with the opening nightjust seven days away. for now, i want you to get your tights and your dance pointe on. i don't have to put my tights, no? uh, yeah, we have rehearsal until seven. go ahead, next section. everybody go with your partners. michelle, you work with pamela, but michelle can help you discuss a lot. joel is thrown straight in at the deep end as the company begin rehearsals for the ball scene, where romeo falls forjuliet. i learned a lot of the choreography beforehand because at least, if one of you knows it, you've got at least something to fall back on. but what's really nice is that, because we do know each other so well, a lot of the figuring out has kind of already been done over the years, so a lot of the kind of partnership and predicting where the other is going to be and how we're going to fit together, we've kind of already done all of that, so that definitely

makes it easier, as well. do it again. back up and set her back down. i would recommend not trying this the first time with a skirt on. 0k. joel and annabel have just six more days to learn a one hour and 50 minute ballet. let go of your dancers around... things do not always go quite to plan, even for experienced dancers like joel. so let's hear this musically, this whole section. step, up, up. dance. music playing. by the end of the first day, joel has already learnt the first pas de deux. i do not even think about it. i see it's just a dance — that's it.

as long as i keep on repeating it, that's why we have rehearsals, it will be there. the movements, i have seen them, and that's — i think that is why i remember them. i have seen them before, you know the names, you know the terminology and i guess that is why it is easier to remember. through artists for africa, a charity set up by cooper, more children from the slums are hoping for a career in dance. cooper fosters eight of them, including 12—year—old michelle and 13—year—old lavender, who regularly travel to rehearsals after visits to their families in kibera. i'm from kibera slums, which is one of biggest slums in kenya, and i love it there because i was born there and i'm from there. and that is why i started dancing. you, like, have to do everything correctly, like, arms and put your legs where they are supposed to be but then africa is like, you are just free, you can do anything.

for now, i want to be a professional dancer when i grow up, yeah, because i love it so much. keep them — it's very hard... withjoel as their role model, the young people cooper has fostered from the slums, and others like them, believe a career in dance and an escape from poverty is possible. joel's friend silas is the first certified male ballet teacher in kenya. it is a growth for me. i see it as a growth of talent and growth of art in our country, not only here at dck, but as a country at large. it shows that there is a bright future ahead. dance teachers going out into schools around nairobi through artists for africa are inspiring the next generation of children from the slums. 1,2 -i, 2... sometimes the kids come from slums, they have a lot in their heads so when they dance they free up their minds. the kids can choose

what they want after a dance. maybe others want to be an engineer, maybe others want to take dance as a career. so it is up to us to show them the way. today the cast are learning the scene where tybalt kills romeo's friend mercutio and, in turn, romeo exacts his revenge and is banished from verona. five, six, seven, eight. one, two, three, four, down, up, down up. learning the fights is hard, not to mention the acting. you want him and them to be friends now after 20 years of hating each other. so don't grab it. na—uh—uh! it's even the fingers in the... don't. i'm serious. details matter. it's not fingers in front as if you're grabbing it. it's fingers in back as if you're saying "hey, excuse me". it's a very different gesture.

as well as the fight scenes, joel must learn the harlot‘s dance with benvolio and mercutio. romeo &juliet - morning dance. when they're not in the main rehearsals, joel and annabel practice in a side studio. it has gotten on ok. tiring. but i'm getting there. almost done with, like, with the first act — almost finished. by the end of the third day, joel almost has the ballet done. this is absolutely insane.

him learning all of romeo and juliet in three days. we've got about six minutes left here. an hour and 56 minutes or something like that. he just has a few minutes left to learn. and it'll be done this evening. with the castjust needing to finetune their routines, joel is absolutely exhausted. getting the show onto the stage at the kenyan national theatre seems a long way off. finally, there's a break in rehearsals for romeo and juliet, so annabel is taking joel to visit his mother. it's going to be nice. have dinner. hang out with my mum. because i haven't done that in a while. mum! many of the families here were forced to relocate after a massive fire, including angela. angela has seen her son transformed

since the days he started dancing. he told me he was going to dance and then he was dancing, everyday dancing. at first i wasn't taking it seriously. i didn't know that dancing was done for, maybe, for a career. joel regularly returns to kibera, where he used to give ballet classes to the children at the angel kindergarten. me teaching the kids was always fun, stressful sometimes, because i didn't know how they would react to it. you see them smiling, you see them happy. they are talking, they are dancing. i was very eager to learn in the beginning when i started doing ballet.

it was through an outreach programme like this thatjoel first met annabel. we were both really young. i was maybe 11! and joel was 13 or 12. but i sort of spotted joel. he was always coming in, he was always on time, and he had this beautiful elevation and his long legs when hejumped. annabel decided to invite cooper rust in to seejoel dance. and immediately i sanoel. so i started home—schooling him so he could both learn to read and learn to dance. asjoel‘s skills increased, cooper secured an audition for him at the english national ballet school. she has pretty much changed a lot of lives. she's a mum to a lot of people. she's my best friend. whilejoel trained, he spent most of the time with his ballet friends at cooper's. these are home—grown zucchinis? yes. cooper's really amazing that she does all of that.

i don't think i've met anyone else who can do such brilliance that she does. it really brings us together. emotionally we talk about everything. and we just really understand each other. so let's get everything cleaned up tonight and teeth brushed and ready for bed and we'll make some plans. cool? after dinner, cooper has some last—minute notes forjoel. in the death pas de deux. more emotion. a lot more emotion. by putting your own worst nightmares into it. when you're acting it out you have to take it all the way. when you're in the moment it's ok and annabel won't mind. it'll help her. i think sometimes you're like "what comes next, what comes next, what comes next" — it's natural. but you have to think "what comes next, what comes next, what comes next..."

laughter. after a late night there's just time to grab some breakfast. it feels surreal, because, first of all, i would never have imagined performing romeo and juliet here. it's something that never crossed my mind even as a role that i would ever get to perform. so i'm just thankful. i don't know. it's crazy. it is crazy. while the theatre technicians get across the lighting and stage cues, the company have a chance to get used to this space, including a renowned actor john sibi okumu playing lord montague. it is a wonderful story and i wanted to be on the same stage asjoel. because what he has achieved is phenomenal. to get where he is, and annabel, these are home—grown superstars. at the kenyan national theatre, the public arrive for the opening gala. the show must go on. applause.

places for act one! romeo &juliet, dance of the knights. over the next few nights, the nairobi audiences are in for a treat. people are freaking out, joel. they thought that this was the best show ever. but that's only cause they weren't here for last night. yeah, and they don't know when it's not good or not. we can only pray. romeo &juliet, balcony scene.

it was amazing to watch, honestly. just spectacular. from the last time i saw him dance to now, his skill level has improved. it's just fascinating to watch. i thought it was amazing. i enjoyed every second. and it was such a pleasure to look at. the first night of the performance, opening night, my mum was there, my sister was there. and i didn't know that she was going to come onstage and give me flowers afterwards the performance, which was pretty cool, because i had never gotten a chance like that. so it was lovely for herjust to be on stage with me and give me flowers at the end of the performance in nairobi at the kenyan national theatre and it was pretty cool. i enjoyed it.

back in london just a week later, the harsh reality of exams, assessments, and auditions is beginning to hit home. today i'm doing a class with alexander whitley at the wayne mcgregor studios, because i'm graduating in three months‘ time. basically the students are auditioning for certain companies, ballet companies, contemporary companies. considering this is the first time he's done class with us, i think a lot of it isjust being familiar enough with the kind of exercises to be able to learn them and do them quickly, you know. one, two, three, back... he's got the willingness and the aptitude to try and take risks and explore new things. when we're out there just doing our thing, you're happy, you're smiling, so i think — no, i know that it's going to be amazing. whether he decides to do ballet or contemporary, one things for sure, joel's dancing career will take off

once this lockdown is over. but, for now, as with most of us, joel and his friends in kenya spend their time online taking classes and looking forward to the day they can take to the stage again. joel, would you like to be our first guest teacher next week? um, sure, yes, please. actually, no, i've changed my mind, because they've had you recently for romeo and juliet. all the boys. ten push—ups. face your camera down. you ready? ready? laughter. and one and two... oh, i miss this. i used to do this! four, five, six... seven, eight... nine...

come on! ten! oh, no. you only get ten. you're only getting ten. all right. that's fine. that's about nine. hello there, the temperature reached 27 celsius in hampshire on tuesday, but that was the last of the very warm days for probably quite sometime. the next few days at least will be feeling much cooler, thanks to a northerly wind. more cloud and some wet weather around as well. that rain certainly arrived in scotland during tuesday — knocking temperatures back as well. the cloudier weather, together with the rain, is continuing to push its way southwards overnight. many areas by the end of the night will have had some rain, the exceptions really being towards the southeast and east anglia where it is going to be a little chilly in the countryside and probably drying off later in the night for northern ireland and western scotland. cloudier skies for wednesday

in england and wales. some outbreaks of rain as well, could be little heavy at times. across northern ireland, largely dry, little bit of sunshine and missing most of the showers across western scotland, where temperatures may make 18 degrees in glasgow, much cooler with the showers in eastern scotland and across the rest of the uk temperatures quite a bit lower than they were yesterday. continuing that cooler theme through the rest of the week, because pressure is lower across scandinavia where we once had high pressure. instead, high pressure we are treating out into the atlantic. it's not close enough to the uk, and it means that we are drawing down a northerly wind which will feed in that cooler air and continue to feed in some showers. perhaps a longer rain to clear away from the southeast of england early on thursday morning, and then a little bit of sunshine but on the whole, pretty cloudy skies and further showers which could be heavy at times as well. if anything in that northerly wind temperatures may be even lower on thursday, typically 111—15 degrees or so, quite a bit cooler than it should be at this time of year. so this weather is quite a change from what we have

seen for a long time. those cooler northerly winds pick up again on friday. we will blow down some heavy showers from the north. south wales may get up to 16—17 degrees, but for northern scotland, weird struggling to make double figures. as we head into the weekend, we no longer have high—pressure close to the uk. instead, we are dominated by low pressure, and it's quite a deep one as well. it could bring some unusually windy weather to some northern and western parts of the uk, at least for a while on saturday, some risk of gales. even without the strong winds, it will feel cool in the cloud with some showers, and longer spells of rain.

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