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delights have a yeah it's a sleek speciality from learning from. we start on the big stage with what many regard as the epitome of classical ballet swan lake when it was first rehearsed an eight hundred seventy six its original choreography felt the ballet was undone simple since then it has developed and found success all over the world but directed derek deane decided to make things a bit harder with the shanghai ballet company he brings forty eight instead of the usual sixteen songs onto the stage this sensational production is currently in berlin and we went by to see how the dancers afforded ruffling feathers on the crowded stage. first six then nine then twenty four in the end forty eight swann's downstairs a press call in berlin's border museum it's one lake on

a scale never seen before staged by celebrated british choreographer derek dean. it is the biggest one late in the world i mean there hasn't been this one leg of this size in a proceeding and theatre and not even you know the paris opera the war ballet the kirov the bolshoi nobody has ever created something like this so be very interesting to see over here in sri action to this i call it tsunami of swans or the forty eight swans epitomize innocence and beauty but achieving this seeming ease requires perfect technique the smallest mistake would destroy the illusion. just how to really pick her up in a spotlight as soon as she starts to move ok the dancers movements must be strong yet smooth and sensuous dean strives for perfection that shanghai ballet we were very much on the emotional side of the downs not just forty eight girls being in

line being in the precise place with very very much were on the quality of the movement and the emotion of the movement as well. for the two soloists in particular performing on a completely new stage requires a great deal of concentration they have to find their way through three times as many swans as usual yet make it look as easy as if they weren't there at all. i'm a bit nervous it's my first time on this stage and i'm still a little jet lagged or they were all really excited. but with derek dean there in the best of hands he's made his name choreographing productions performed in a huge arena. yes dean has studied stagings of swan lake throughout history from the primary nine hundred seventy seven to modern day performances he says there have been major changes. you know where it's well it was first before it was

a disaster i mean everybody booed at the performances everybody said the music was trying to be dreadful the choreography was appalling and they had to put the production away for many years and then it was rethought redone with the same music and through the years it became this. is a fairy tale about prince think freed's desperate attempt to save swan princess or dead from a spell cast by an evil sorcerer is a perennial favorite when derek dean first stage swan lake in one thousand nine hundred seventy in london princess diana was among his most ardent admirers. she would come. she would turn up unannounced she would come and have a church she would just come and sit with his and she was terribly easy and very comfortable and there was no side she wasn't performing she was of being the

princess of wales she was just being a person and it was wonderful to see that side of her but had connection with that it was tremendous these ballerinas hope to find such an enthusiastic response in milliners well at the press conference of the buddha museum they demonstrated their impressive talents the youngest dancer is just seventeen. that howard and this is my very first show i just graduated from dancing school survivor says about the most challenging part for me is to dance in such a big group there's a big difference between twenty four swans and forty eight. but is it quantity over quality on the contrary derek dean and the shanghai ballet have performed swan lake repeatedly for international audiences too great. claim. you're still giving them a classical ballet you're not changing the structure you're not changing the law you're giving them the best product you can give them it's just it's just this

sensation of people just bring something else to the back. the show lives up to its advertising slogan with more smallness than you can count derek jeans version of swan lake is a great ballet won't be performing its one song any time soon. this mammoth production will be in berlin till the sixteenth of december when it moves on to the austrian capital vienna now it's time to take a look at today's headlines around the continent express we make stops in helsinki . but first up we're in moscow. at the weekend. red square professional figure skaters took to the ice at the foot of the kremlin for the opening. the rink can accommodate up to four hundred fifty skaters. muscovites and visitors alike come through here every winter since two

thousand and six freezing temperatures not necessary as the ice is kept cool by machines. on wednesday a new central library is opening in the finnish capital how thinking it will be named the library is a present from the finns to themselves on one hundred thousand of us three of their independence from russia is rings out a year of celebration libraries in helsinki are the second highest rated public service after drinking water and we have around six point five million visits to our libraries every single year so libraries are really loved and feel and. the design is by architects based in. many of the routine jobs in the new library are to be performed by robots. last sunday liverpool experienced an invasion of santa claus's nearly seven thousand men and women took part in the santa dash

a five kilometer run through the english city on the mercy. of. anyone fifteen years or older could participate the only requirement was a santa suit. the rental was included in the twenty six year old booking fee not a very snappy christmas to one and all these. this is how. our journey through europe continues here in berlin now with two architects who live in the capital they form a collective called plastique fantastic but mark o'connor that she and una young don't design buildings but rather plastic spaces they wrecked them at concerts festivals and clubs and we met them. in berlin to find out how they work and which role low cost airlines play in their success. these

giant inflated plastic shapes looked like something out of a science fiction film plastic fantastic creates temporary venues for concerts encounters and theater performances architects marco kind of archie and yet a young are pitching up their inflatable spaces all around europe at their berlin studio they tell us how it all began when. i was story runs parallel to the advent of budget airlines. and suddenly it was possible for both of us to fly anywhere it can go in super league and want to the fan and the other the plastic bubble is baggage on easy jet. so we started making everything to a twenty five kilos or less get back so we could travel with it. because i think you don't have it i think. marco spent the early one nine hundred ninety s. in the eastern part of berlin in stark contrast to his native room anything seem to be possible here he squatted in apartment studied architecture and opened up a club together with some friends that's where he created his first spaces with

plastic sheeting to keep the patrons warm. nowadays plastic fantastic has other aims the architecture altering perceptions of cities and their streets for instance here in spain's capital madrid. because the port side of the biggest advantage is the lightweight the biggest disadvantage is the in compatibility with environmental consciousness come on doesn't your room for debate. we created an installation with a floor space of two hundred fifty square meters in a dutch forest and it all fit on one pallet if we were to build a space the same size made of wood and textiles it wouldn't necessarily be any more ecological. hooves.

at this festival on an island in the north sea in the summer of twenty seventeen light sound and when constantly change the spaces. can go wrong. not nature. we like the wind. but we have to take some precautions so whenever we have an installation outdoors we always have a team on site who decides when we need to adjust to the changing conditions. in the worst case the installation needs to be taken down. below. the structure can withstand gusts up to the wind force for anything stronger is risky and twenty sixteen the architects put up a kind of tent in the middle of the finish capital helsinki. it was quite popular with the four events or simply taking a lunch break. people are quite

quiet for. sure. but. park and i think that's. their new project titled one hundred years of evolution is also designed to get people talking you know young meet the seating herself from plastic sheeting of course. it's time now for our ongoing series and today we take a trip to poland that's thanks to a viewer request from san salvador el salvador to see our lives there and told us it's her dream to travel to poland one day the time being we went there for her to the winter sports result of zac opana in the south of the country. one thousand

meters above sea level is poland's highest town located at the base of the high top from mt. hood. a magical landscape of peaks around in the high tech it's the icy temperatures in the clear mountain air make the region of favorite with lovers of winter sports. around three million people visits up upon each every year the town is called poland's winter camp. and its heart group of key street lined with stores and restaurants invites tourists to take a stroll. going to choose from which we come here every year it's relaxing you can stroll around or they're going to resorts don't have the upas for to do it here. the study here must

come good or i don't actually love the mountains in the summer but i wanted to come and see them in the winter and i'm told over other great feeling it's wonderful. a pleasant way to view the cultural highlights observe upon it is from a horse drawn carriage the typical architecture of the region is known as style. the small wooden chalet like houses feature high point of roofs eaves and decorations influenced by the art nouveau movement. one of the oldest buildings in the town is the villa khalifa bill to me eight hundred ninety s. today it houses a museum of regional architecture tradition is taken very seriously in cycle planning. the building people the houses are made entirely of wood no nails or screws were used their beautiful buildings made of natural wood you're healthy and you can logically frankly house us from. the circle pani is known

throughout europe as. the sports venue it regularly hosts skiing competitions. the mountain cup give yoshi's just under two thousand meters high with a spectacular panoramic view of the area. a ride on the popular cable car reveals the wild landscape of the high to address. that down on crew puppy street people are lining up to buy a local specialty a seebeck a smoke cheese made from salted sheep's milk. the decorative shape is typical of the tigris. the saleswoman explains how it seeking encircled honey. like my status cheeses very aromatic it tastes best on slices of bread but you can fry it in a panic as much now must open up like that. on the outskirts of the town local handicrafts are on offer. the artistic carvings are known throughout poland and are

on display in many churches and museums what is the typical material of the region . that i think you got to see because it's part of our tradition and i use lots of wooden boards when i cook ok you have to replace them fairly often but it's a natural product not some kind of plastic like silicone stuff that's the trick to see become the high. as night falls the bars and restaurants on crew puppy street are great places to warm up one hot spot is kartchner the polish word for tavern and it offers not only hearty food but folk music. it's the perfect place to experience authentic polish hospitality. oh yes i come from the mountains this is our life. that was the greatest but

a lot of people come here for the muse. and when it stops the day ends here and stark upon it like obama. but there's always the next day to look forward to especially in the winter with plenty of snow and fun on the slopes. we continue now with this week's series sweet delights them every year is a moroccan concoction originally best known in northern france and belgium and it was long regarded as old fashioned provincial but the french confection of the think book has made it his life's work to improve its image and it worked his bakery specializing in the delicacy has branches all over the world we pay them a visit in little to get a taste of the marvelous method here. a little more running

a little chocolate and lots and lots of whipped cream it's pretty rich but that hasn't stopped this delicacy with roots in northern france and belgium from conquering the well and french chef you did recall conley's the man who made his own version of the speciality famous apparel orange is t. all the service or get towards a pretty feel there are several things that set this cake apart first of all it's very very light of why because the membrane is very airy and then shows it too and because i've changed a key component to fill it for thirty years meir b. you were made with butter cream cheese i use with cream a very light with korea commercials and so the mering is light the crean it's light and the result is a pastry that looks impressive but weighs less than one hundred grams is in all the best to memphis on the. vocals how big is the city of louisville in northern france the city center was renowned for its splendid murakami. until the

rise of man they used. to cake has become a. marriageable city trademark it's so popular that customers queue up in long lines on saturdays just to buy some. they can even watch met with a human being made inside the shop that's important to kong who says anyone can make them he's even glad to share his recipes. let's take a look. makes egg whites and sugar to make them rank. former rank spirals of bake some for an hour at one hundred degree celsius. meanwhile with the cream and that as much chocolate as desired. then fill whipped cream between two bakes marang and will the cake in chopped nuts or chocolate shavings and one of the melt they are already come off as the tip shows up in the pot on the most important thing is the amount of cream used between

that you want needs to have enough to make episodes like that but not too much all of it leaves too much of the membrane will disintegrate to strike you the right balance more to defend them. at all males a year to faint there's a cake to please every color at. the classic version is covered in dark chocolate but will cause recipe for success came when he refined the traditional formula to create his a repertoire with new flavors such as cherry pistachio and not because personal favorite is coated with crystallized marang a history buff he named it after the supporters of the french revolution the song your lot customers adore his melvin you. she begged him i actually don't like cream cakes but these are extra light the meringue is delicate but maintains its shape. and i love the flavors my favorites white

chocolate and spiced almond cookies sift through the. they're delicious i love them who believe in the. mail the here and now finding fans the world over to come on now has twenty shops in cities that include london brussels current geneva new york and. new cars relaxed about his marang burgeoning popularity the point is not on reaching new york or opening a new branch he's most happy working in his shop in central lean. down all just as i would need for the i just love my product that's why i like to be here she unfortunately opossum be lucky and i'm on the road a lot then i miss being in my store at the office whenever i have the time of i'm here as you again you eat this little in the room all summer i find it reassuring to bake my own pate. but even he can come doesn't have long to linger he scouting

for duplication see announced a dam and just after thirty seven years he still happy to share his passion for this man named. we'd like you to share your favorite suite with us at euro max on our website didn't we don't call him slash lifestyle you can get in touch with us and reveal what your guilty pleasure is around christmas time i most enjoy the typical german roasted almonds that you can get at any christmas markets take part and you can win a custom duramax wrist watch while we round off today's show with a visit to a place that's better than new york city at least that's what photographer christan fun i've been slaving thinks when he was offered a job in the big apple he turned it down to stay in the northern german state of art style at age seventy seven he's still working there and we visit him at his

latest exhibition. has been christian. passion for more than sixty years. i only do what i like what's fun. the photographer is a star on the international scene. for his work. current exhibition. also shows pictures from the start of his career. in the south of france in one nine hundred sixty he took pictures of. people he met he was just eighteen at the time. taking pictures at school for the school newspaper and had a notion that i wanted to be a photographer. some fifty years later. the serious. here as in his early photos he focuses on the power of nature.

for example taking part in a traditional spring festival. moved by primal natural things the essence of things. since two thousand and six he. came to germany. i was told that she was coming that she wanted to see me and find out what i'm like and what i do. and then she made me an offer. and she said it would be fantastic if i'd come to new york and work for american vogue would contradict what i considered it for

a short time and said to myself clearly i've got to turn it down. stein's nicer than upstate new york. new york. he stayed in germany and has never regretted it but he's traveled widely he shot these waves in portugal for his series sought the light. the current exhibition is on show at rhinebeck castle until early january. that's all from us for today i'll see you again tomorrow for more european lifestyle and culture here on the double and if you don't want to wait that long you can find us on instagram and facebook at d.w. euro max for plenty more content. next time on your own after paintings like this are usually exhibited in museums but spanish artist who know a bad thing is taking them to the streets he called his masterpieces from artistry

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