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if you're given the opportunity to travel around the country, speak to fascinating people in unique places and learn their big ideas. would you take it? i'm shown thomas, and that's exactly what we get to do with this program here on eland visions in russia, the we are in st. petersburg and the capital of russian ballet. preserving the plastic card and throwing model into the mix. the city continues to define the global dance culture today. the

so what does it take to become a top notch dancer? will ask ballet star and head of one of the top 10 schools in the world. nikolai just got easy the thank you for taking the time to speak with us today. it's truly an honor to be here. it's been an incredible experience. i have to have to can you train anyone

even if they don't have the initial skills and talents of through training and hard work? can they become a star? can you train anything? never, never, never yet to well you say open tonight to yes, it's true that for you. well, each person has its sudden talent. so naturally, just like an extra problem. just a term talent. just want to note special abilities that only one person that a 1000000000 may have become really describe what it is, what it is, what it is when you find it interesting to watch someone, however, and skilful late may seem and then you don't want to watch anyone else some people, they grab your attention to what others count. you pay a bit,

even if they're doing the same thing. the amount of hardware can produce talent for us to use the edit can nobody help you master a ballet movement. it's a kind of if you have show times you have them for life and it's kind of can unfortunately, if your bone with a short neck or legs without remedies that question, that's how you were born and is what it will prevent you from fulfilling your potential in classical ballet. so that's why the russian ballet theater was famous on sit on the loop since that's why it's the best of the best. it can still offer a beautiful picture, so to speak. and that's what the audience has always been off. the valley is about beauty, about in today's use, who are getting ready to go into ballet. i've heard that the students now don't have as much coordination as they used to because they're always on their phones or looking at their ipads and they're not being as active as they used to. is this

true? okay, unfortunately, it's true. it's absolutely no problem. it's absolutely true to deal with and what are the consequences of a sudden what kind of a new generation used to play but, and mainly street games. so of course we play different games depending on the country get, are going and keep that someplace cops and robbers or cowboys and indians loved to some of us played laptop wise, a russian bass and bowl game series or helps. gotcha. we'll say plastics. so kind of a game that was very popular in the soviet union who'd be agreed, sir. so we played all these games and wanted to left. i mean, this meant we're not in the run around the law. so we also have to watch other players and be not so you and then you have to memorize the pattern if the game was complete, make sure you did it right and watch for your opponents mistakes. this and there was several levels of that. i'm sure the rubber band gave me, but now when a kid is glued to his tablet, he doesn't move or watch others move on. in fact, the only thing that gets trained is his visual memory with showing that the skills

are engaged on what's here. and this is immediately noticeable on it, especially when children come to classical ballet. i mean, you have the unable to quickly memorize a series of validate, pause in class, will not something we used to do easily from there, but i can't understand after we are still not once did i have a problem memorizing a succession of ballet steps due to if i never got stuck or messed up or the combination, but these kids, it was staring at screens all the time, find it difficult. i mean, it's a global problem that minds work in a different way. if the global community doesn't take measures soon, i'd say, well, this is going to end in disaster. the result will be really bad. something that you are i've already mentioned, but i want to go a little bit deeper. is finding talent. can you spot talent at a very young age? and if so, how do you do it? more snow did is you can see at once, if a kid has a talent for ballet. know, cuz there's really no, but unfortunately everything is decided in puberty. documents and you ended up

going to the front, you know, it's when, when hormones kick in and male and female bodies develop actually got a more nice to it's my missing it depends a good bit chip and everything can change in that moment. and you can't predict what time the kid will take and his adolescent development, how the genes stay and hair which will work. and we've tried to predict the outcome . you pretend it's impossible to think of us and there's no use did to. however, some kids grab your attention as soon as they start moving and dancing the so there's so much history in this record right now. can you tell me what some of

this stuff is, for example, to tell me about this costing me know at the pretty do a section is official fully dedicated to douglas russian seasons and the space here . you can see original posters from 190919114 portions. it's a, this is an original set of post a little bit this article and that one is by junk hook to the thought. everything here is related to the seasons. is about a close lead. can you do you have the well no one has ever performed that except emission ski in may. we revive the valley for the $110.00 of the 3 of the seasons and showed it in london and paris. that of course, must go to some petersburg under the east of rush, it was well as of which is what it's very difficult to dust this bottom. because this costume has a 66 centimeter waste, such as they would have to squeeze into what was funny. now, when we were looking for a manic in for this cost you, we realize nobody produced mannequins for that size wherever we cold and it was

still possible to ship from any way back then. they told us that, well, no man of that height width that waist line, expect return, otherwise it wouldn't fit for. and when this guy arrived, it was the same as model i had to, but we still have to cut away some material to fasten the cost. yeah, and when i say it, i know i should watch my diet more should nothing. yeah. 6 6 6 the comparing the dentist from a 100 years ago, until now there have been many, many, many changes. valley has evolved over the years. but now there's stereotypes of what a ballet dancer must be. they must be incredibly skinny,

maybe even for looking, but also incredibly strong as well. what are the conditions to become the belly dense? are becoming more harsh as time goes on. there were 2 wonderful small format books . this big, you could buy a practically any book store around the globe and they were about the beauty of male and female bodies have to do better than what a 100 photo. so can look back one for each year of the past century. age reflecting the beauty standards of a particular yeah. and flicking through them, you could see how male and female body types evolved over the 20th century. but they did that. it of so glad the will. of course, those beauty standards influenced ballet aesthetics too expensive at the start of the century. the performance and dances had short legs and show down. so i know you've been didn't done at the backs. then we seem to work in the 19 twenty's and said he's there on a positive it appeared on stage, bringing in a fashion for delicate how long lived females on the problem levels of believing then came in raising change, and the russian empire alone got out flooded into the country and more,

but i see that broad surface to the valley stage. i've always lots of challenging feats. overhead lifts with women dunces thrown up in the air and lifted high above the head to the cover due to leaving the man started performing huge, complicated jumps, and then all sorts of some adults might something ballet had never seen until then . 3 videos grew deep. it's unfortunate the nationality and origin do play a major role in a valley, dances professional prospect. so nice to please. it's the same. so opera seem to be here with me, but it's known that 2nd try matic zones, produce oper. thing is with high pitched voices. you might say, sir, that's what will happen to the searching gloves, and now we have what we have, what talk presents will put that much bear with jimmy and kim is one of the great dancers of today, coming from korea. it shows to dance here at the muranski theater, the jimmy and kim. thanks for taking the time to meet us today. so as to ask why russia?

uh, uh, because i like it so much that i was trained in korea, my home country. yeah, i was invited to dance for marian ski theater when i was 18 and it's been great since then rushes, my 2nd home. i loved the city and i loved the theaters, loved the people. you have said that great technique itself doesn't make a great ballet dancer, how difficult is it to express emotion through dance? what is that extra mile, if you will? what makes a good dancer? ballet is an art for this. after all, it's not about being able to execute this or that movie. it's about successfully conveying an image of a message or a certain emotion to your audience. this is what matters most. and i mean, that's why i love russian ballet because there's a difference between the marian sky company and other companies such as what we care about is not just showing the technique, but telling a story. what can we expect of ballet dancers of the future, or maybe

a better way of saying it is? what would you like to see or create for ballet dancers in the future. you know, something very strange is happening today. it's almost because of what they think the global trend of leveling everything down. so finding out differences are businesses that makes it really hard to explain to the audience that there is a white and black swan and then not the same using jordan. they do it because it's tied in you and deborah is lot of the authors of swan lake used white and black to contrast good and evil and doesn't have some selections, but now you can't even depict it that way. and now you have to allow anyone to dance in these roles and so on and so forth. i keep this most lovely. this is distorted. the original meaning i think the tonight, the message of ballet performance, the tragedy of modern santo river,

the past 20 years has been the most valet companies in the world, a run by people who have never danced themselves. oh, my god, i've never been a superstar 5th when you come daniel. and they've stepped about really low fatty, which is the situation we're in. she is disastrous, so he's been suspended every time i see a ballet performance in some parts of the world usual numerous, i realize that it's not the ballet i once fell in love with usual double. by the time i thought a jump review, i did, she really is. this is not what inspired me to make ballot you my profession meeting near put me in your if there are no changes to say as a management in the near future. i'm afraid this out will disappear as such, or rather not disappeared about the lapse into what it used to be in europe at the tone of the 20th century. even what can i tell him do outside the vehicle? given the trouble is that you just explained,

is it possible to invent something new in that way? look, it's all very simple as you like stakes. don't you remember this thing i'm wondering is, can we just invent a new one? of course, and your classic stake will be made the way it was made for a 100 years ago or a 1000 years ago. right. and of that because there's nothing new to invent. the only thing that doesn't sound the same is with the classical ballet was conceived that way. it was concerning the russian say it's a made it that way, but it can't be any other way. it was. it's a different story that the 20th century. so the emergence of neo classical and mountain valley and then also very talented people who stage to really amazing performances in the thing. and then from america, germany on the front. so i knew you name it, but i think that a to, to wearing girl impersonating a swan and, and doing it well. i would always be west more than all of that new ballet stuff. that was it. she would visit them, but live normally with the fan. yet ballet is not what it was. 100 years

ago. there are new chrome versus entering the scene, experimenting with new forms and bringing their vision to the classical stage. constituting chico is a prize winning choreographer who is taking his productions to the bulk, troy and muranski theaters and beyond the consenting. thank you very much for taking the time to meet with us today. so i have to ask, when you're inventing a new valet, what goes through your mind? what's the most important thing that you think of when creating a new work? when you're trying to do this, you don't have too many, we don't care much for the things that are too straightforward. we experiment with more and strange story, is that the most the audience in the state of meditation. so going back to your question, the most important thing for us when creating a new world is getting into this submitted to, to of states and inviting viewers to join us. you've also said in the past that

a dancer is kind of a co author of a new work or a new piece. yeah. does that mean there's improvisation or how does that work? um assist jessica visa elements that could be added during rehearsals. the message, say we introduce a pipe or a so the limitation like for example, you've done something but you're not allowed to touch each other while telling a love story or something along these lines of business. sometimes you introduce segments that are open to improvise ation. doing the performance itself. so the restructured segments and then there are those that are up to the done. so naturally they keep in mind the over arching idea of the show that they can use these improvise ational segments to tap into a new emotional resources and explore new car a graphic vocabulary so that each performance is somewhat different. if it came up with some kind of a stick, i can pretty much come of them. cars with us. classical ballet, there's a lot of stereotypes have been very rigid rules and you have to follow the choreography. exactly. it's incredibly strict. but contemporary modern ballet. are

there any rules at all? i mean, you just talked about this idea of improvisation on what are the rules and the differences there of conditions. go do a setting the rules and mode and downs as well, because what is more about working with your body and your mind working with your presence, if you will. there was certain principles of working with ways of working with your concept of working with the flaw. somebody in the classical don's doesn't have the principles of working with the text. as you know, more than don't shows, may include ponds with performance, talk, approve of the audience cetera. when faced with modern choreography, classical ballet dances begin to re interpreted as well, it becomes more interesting if they add amplitude, volume, and depth turn to this number to the globes. the

yes, but i think that classical art should remain classical. they have nothing against the choreographer. putting on a modern interpretation of this one later by for example, why not? it could be interesting since we don't live in the past, after all, we live right now, but you need to indicate clearly, this is a different choreography his version, but if you say it's a ballet by mary you speech path, you need to stick to the original switching gears just a little bit to of the academy and the fundamentals of learning for ballet dancer. the stereotype is that from morning until night, they do work at the bar and it's incredibly strict. what else do future dancers learned at the academy from the very beginning of the one this establishment has had 3 schools that was so that nobody me, in a ballet school live school does

a regular public school. so that is kinetic i completed year and a music school as well. if it's still that way today, i see a kid comes here at the age of 10 or the been graduates at 18 as a highly skilled specialist. when he considered, when i was old, that was set up 285 years ago to the, to the, during world war 2 in italy and from such as well from see countries that invented this out in parts kadelli stopped to pingdom. and that this was, everything stopped my view. she was living in this city. what is it which spend $900.00 days under a blockade? and then it was some nothing stopped. nope. once this over. right. yeah. yeah. this is a bit different with the micro climate for outs, if the, if the, when i think about the people here, the way it was stopped, but essentially doomed not being shown them. so stay and then you model is tim stein in it was still teaching valet to children being bullied. it's impossible to

believe. as you say when you, i'd say it's an amazing thing and you're going to name is in russia, and sally is more than a no. it's more than a national lot for someone coming. definitely in 1956 when the boss, i say that they came to london, mostly the world went bonkers. especially nobody had ever seen anything like it before. the end, if the russians hadn't given it to the world, thanks to to revolutions in 19171991. we wouldn't have it now. so there's this idea of the ballet was written and is generally for the leads only for the leads. and over the years, many things have changed about ballet, but is valley really for everyone. valley is a full massage that was bones, thanks to king louis the 14th, which he loves dancing so much that he made his whole royal court take up, dancing, or even dramatic plays,

was staged with elements of dancing in the new phones. and this later revolved into an office today. we called ballet categories to him. and i had somebody for over a 100 years ballet was something very elevated or to approaching. we spoke of how many common people backs in that knew anything about the greek gods. you just, you know, one to but anyway, but smelly and she, i'm kind of yours and i'm with the emotions of mess education, most of what i do instead of can something like what the soviet union brought about, hung up in the ussr. absolutely. everybody was involved in education and equally was to and everybody knew the things, you know, some things became accessible to everyone. but you more, why did some countries make the effort to stop the translations of the bible and would use because that way people would be able to read on their own without priests? no, i thought was, although it was thought everybody began to understand what was happening on the stage. i think it didn't mean everyone fell in love with ballet. would you like me

to be a lot of people still say, i don't understand anything here, but just like it was a couple of, it's a some way it is. you know, it's like all for a valley is a very simple, it's official form of out by you. we don't done so thing like that in real life. i don't know when you go to see an offer. you know that you will be listening to a tragedy or a comedy. pardon me, do this last day to see which one of you enjoy a simple story with a beautiful music and sound who couldn't believe to move the valet was about because you embraced the beauty of movements and to use your imagination and professional web browser in your you must know a lot of people right, because the comics web. how many of them have a good match the national laws which loves to jim, it's not for everyone. can kind of throw in a demo. delicate person is june. i'm open but it's a little capable layout of embracing and with the mode joys, i guess the

. 2 the so classical belly draws big audiences. people know what to expect. it's almost a comfort if you will, because i know people who go to the nutcracker every single year because it is a traditional for them. yes. um. but modern ballet is it difficult to bring new audiences and people who have not seen valet or been interested in dance before? how do you do that? how do you draw new audiences in which this is actually an interesting question? i think you should see more than done in the broader context of mode not mode not has never been crowd pleasing people who come to see classical ballet are familiar with the press. ok if you have some idea about the story they know say to call skis, music, omen cases or whatever it may be. so it's

a comfortable environment for them that looks familiar to bring up not so i think this is more of a question for the audience themselves. to what extent are they prepared to explore a new environment with a brake sample of watching you films, visit different kinds of museums, see different performances and explore modern drama? a spill modern painting is a transfer. it requires effort suppressor, got approved for an untrained eye, a person like me just a general viewer. what do you look for in ballet? what makes it good? i mean, i know that i can see performance and i know that it's inspirational, but i just don't know why. what do i need to see when you have a version of these 2 things, most of the most to be number one, the don't so sincerity and telling a story about him or herself and the don'ts and may be following the front line. but i want to see how this particular person fits into this clause. what kind of a person all you who owe you a sleeping beauty? what's your contribution to this carries that? you don't copy dozens or hundreds of images created before you. instead,

you communicate on your own wavelength from your own energy, so to speak with this is the 1st thing i care about. number 2, the game is about losing myself in meditation. so that i don't think of all the stage lines suitable, how well the dances for it is pointed open. i want to lose myself in the performance. and it's when this happens, this is the magic we want to see in this is a from your perspective, it would be very interesting. what is the most important thing people need to know about ballet or another way of putting it is. what's the biggest misconception about ballet that you would like to clarify? me? i've seen double of the personally balloons you've got the most important thing has always been making shows that people who went to see a show wouldn't count of beauty. but then we get the policy inception, maybe start them thinking to when they feel by energy use noon. i know what actually is pulling or lifting for this one lake is done. well,

it's much more than being just about black and white person, because it's about making a choice. everyone makes choices with directions. that's very important. the nutcracker is also not just a christmas fairytale to kosky meant for it to be a story about saying good bye to childhood. i will keep on split. the question is, give, every person goes through that and every person gets nostalgic about childhood, even if it wasn't the happy one in which people often want to go back to be younger . see grandma role mom when she was young? that was, that's what the enough correct is about. your use of dream that you understand you issue winter price, but i push the start as a cut. the thing when you're stuck ratios, let's no use that. we've come to a critical point when something is about to happen all over the world, right? so stilton, though you can only cross is affects the odds almost have needed manages of major festivals, insults, but for example, have written about interest. and as a company that is divided, thank you from advisable to get from the the system is dying to base july loan

supposedly it's becoming irrelevant and they don't know what to do units for they can't sell tickets. got that, but people don't want to pay. so much money and watch what they have to offer or get any more opera. ballet kinda be like fast food. we got the same can be said about the 5th or i'm sure something will be rolled back and we'll need people to restore everything in its original form. one score was it has been everything will collapse again in a 100 years or so. please call us with relative to press i by 8th, as my own chalet is beauty. and is that for a fact? i've tried to communicate that my whole life at the more interest rate and that's what i've tried to teach my students. thank you for taking the time speak to us and very interesting conversation share. i think. so the,

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