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the provinces and is just starting out. be able to tense up lift her back turn your legs outward. they want is that not everyone can take it like you. but yet why do you have to wait. till now the 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 8 years this will be sim young some you know it's routine at the far eastern branch of the moscow state academy of choreography also known as the bolshoi ballet school.
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it has a language all its own good it is the 1st time i heard pulling your entire life out what title that the cool and how do you pull it in its. turn your name 5 is outward. no no. no ordinance to turn the find 90 degrees out in the hip socket it's classical ballet his 1st position. but i did this so it is 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 right and thought what exactly. do the hospital. 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
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steel when you've worn. some young is stubborn that's a good trait to have in ballet plus he's got strong muscles and he can jump very well. which he still could actual and that's important for the men's technique. he's also very good looking the new national. 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 the other boy in the class boys are in short supply at the academy. the 1st time i stood there with my family
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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 simulant comes from john almost a 1000 kilometers away. today his mother is visiting. the well that's the new mr it was 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.
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did you miss me to. know that 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 and english but ballet practice continues. he's got 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
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tiptoes. joseph druce. you're watching but i would push him happy 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. to play opinion wires we know ballet dancing is a very serious and difficult profession he told me. to build new floors lead up to him in that same young will have to work his whole life to maintain the level he achieves when approaching it he threw a. mystical core with the water. 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. nor would you commit to what it's his opportunity to get to know another world and maybe even to become
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famous. slob a buck a car. i. simians mother works as a cause in addition 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. while. 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 light of our stock. you. know. because you know you can do it all from miley in cuba
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at 1st it was hard for me here but i had my doubts and thought he's still so little how can i possibly leave him alone. 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 and hold back. yuliya won't see her son for 2 months then he'll be performing on stage as a soloist. many youngsters dream of becoming ballet dancers of taking the spotlight for an enthusiastic audience and having millions of fans. for most it remains
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a dream. simeone had already been dancing for 3 years in b. john but folk not ballet one day a ballet academy staff member spotted him on stage and invited him to vladivostok. a. lot of postdocs upper house was looking for a boy to dance a child solo in the popular nutcracker ballet. sim your own was just right for the part. the sins of the. distance and i was a bit scared. yeah that giant stage isn't the real ballet dancers. was for. don i was afraid out embarrass myself in front of them. i wanted to
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do everything right from the start it again to them and they dilute to this put it in the hood so. the next 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. for. the. stop center on wait not like that you have to listen to the music it. was just a boy is it i was afraid the adult onset who can do everything would see me dance unlawful do you think that's what i was most afraid of. it i thought how can i stand on the same stage as them. that's terrible really terrible . but the day of the big premiere inevitably arrives.
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to me through that letter than you will he did it 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 rose as the 1st bouquet in simulants career in ballet. defense this is my chance. bunny school they said it would be the chance of a lifetime and i thought really. nothing wrong with that i love you pretty.
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