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being a ballet dancer is nice but tough. it's even tougher for someone who comes from the provinces and is just starting out. and so left her back turn your legs outward. they want is that not everyone can take it like you want with with this white yet why do you have to wait. till not more who we were now what you need behind your back stomach pulling your tail 2 shoulders down. on the curriculum it's just called dance and classical dance in reality it's really ringback hard work every morning for hours. for the next 30 years this will be

simulating some universe routine at the far eastern branch of the moscow state academy of choreography also known as the bolshoi ballet school. it has a language all its own good it is the 1st time i heard pullin your entire life what title that the cool and how do you pull it in to. turn your name fives outward. you know not go without origins to turn the find 90 degrees out in the hip socket it's classical ballet is 1st position. i did the thirty's tough see a border now at least understand what my teacher wants of me. not long ago she preys on me when i did something bright and thought what exactly she did this hostile. russia has

a global reputation as the home of classical ballet for more than a century future stars of the ballet stage have trained the same way but the competition is fierce to get by students have to have strong muscles and nerves of steel when you've worn. some urine is stubborn that's a good trait to have in ballet plus he's got strong muscles and he can jump very well but which he still could. that's important for the men's technique. he's also very good looking. stage career in ballet is short for most aspiring dancers it's over before it is even begun 'd by their late thirty's the dancers retire so not only do they have to be extremely good they have to be extremely dedicated and i hear that he owned his class are dedicated that also applies to dispell much v.a.

the other boy in the class. are in short supply at the academy. the 1st time i stood there with my family and saw all these girls i said to him hello what's your name i'm a little nervous to. but we'll get through this when they get. a lot of us talk is russia's principal port city on the pacific during its many years as a soviet naval base it was off limits to foreigners the city is still known far less as a center of arts than of commerce and trade. so it was a small sensation when early in 2019 the bolshoi academy opened a branch here so far away from moscow but within reach of young people of the far east simul incomes from dear abby john almost a 1000 kilometers away. today his mother is visiting. the little

solace the new mr it was as if we'd never been apart come here give me a hug of course we miss him. but we're also so proud of him. did you miss me to. know that sim yon doesn't live with his parents he only makes it home 3 times a year during school vacations here in the future ballet dancer has other things to think about. god. god. he gets a break from cramming math in english but ballet practice continues. to stay in

shape even without the bar ready. i have to stretch at least an hour every day. yeah i sit on the floor and stand on my tiptoes. you're watching what i would push for what we should have be that everything seems to be so easy for him. he says then i sit on my heels i'm told i'm forward that stretches my feet. still play opinion myers we know ballet dancing is a very serious and difficult profession he told me. last night up here in that same young will have to work his whole life to maintain the level he achieves got when approaching it heath where. mystical caught the water of new ideas of a crystal garden what's important is not to skip a single day. once i didn't stretch my feet for

a few days and afterward i heard so much. whoa what it can mean 2 of what it's his opportunity to get to know another world and maybe even to become famous and was more than a. slob a buck a car. simians mother works as a cousin edition right now she has to work as a seamstress on his ballet shoes his father is a businessman they can afford his training because they only have to pay a part of the cost for their son stay at the school. and. the education itself at the state ballet school is tuitions free. this is simeon simeon of so last visit to be john before the big premiere in blood of us talk.

to me. because you know you can do it all from my live in cuba at 1st it was hard for me but i had my doubts and thought he's still so little how can i possibly leave him alone i thought of law of how can he survive a separation of a 1000 kilometers. of course i still miss him. i don't show it but every time he leaves i realize just how much i miss him. yulia won't see her son for 2 months then he'll be performing on stage as a soloist. 7

many youngsters dream of becoming ballet dancers of taking the spotlight for an enthusiastic audience and having millions of fans. for most it remains a dream. simeon had already been dancing for 3 years in vero beach john but folk not ballet one day a ballet academy staff member spotted him on stage and invited him to vladivostok. a. lot of us talks upper house was looking for a boy to dance the child solo in the popular nutcracker ballet. simulant was just right for the part. the sins of the. restless and i was a bit scared. yeah that giant stage isn't the real ballet dancers.

don i was afraid not embarrass myself in front of them. i wanted to do everything right from the started to them and they'd still it's put out in the hood so. they're not cracker ballet with a score by tchaikovsky tells about the christmas eve when a broken wooden nutcracker is transformed into a prince during the night some young plays the boy who broke the night cracker and set the drama in motion. to stop sending on weight not like that you have to listen to the music. i was afraid the adult onset so you can do everything you would see me dance unlawful do you think that's what i was most afraid of. to do i thought how can i stand on the same stage as them. it's terrible really terrible.

but the day of the big premiere inevitably arrives. all 1356 seats in vladivostok supper house are sold out in the audience is simeon's friend my feet from the ballet class. and of course his family from b. or b. john have come.

goonies through that letter then you will hate dennis he did it he's accomplished his mission even though he was so nervous but i think he hit the mark. so. the 11 year old boy has earned his roses the 1st book a career in ballet. fans this is my chance. of ballet school they said it would be the chance of a lifetime and i thought really. nothing wrong with that are you pretty.

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