it has come, i love the human society. so i think uh oh, what happened to oh oh you know that happened out enough time. not very sure because they had been denied also by doctor. i think that it too. and he said he knew she just met her front door to thanks. and now it's almost like to my, the invention of the and the nuclear weapons. i think it's all just caused huge, a serious threats to mankind as a hold of only in terms of ethical, moral, or legal issues, but also directly pausing for it to the continuation of almost say again as a spaces and the current way that different countries deal with a i completely separate place, sometimes you also my nose leave of fuel the french of a i, which may constitute to mankind as a whole. therefore, i think it is time to realize that before it is too late, mankind as a whole,

do need to come up for the overarching framework to deal with the fundamental philosophical and actual threat. but it, thanks for the company here and i'll say international, we always appreciate it. we'll be back at the top of the app is sensitive the, [000:00:00;00] the, 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 us? i'm shown thomas,

and that's exactly what we get to do with this program here on even and visions in russia. the we are in st. petersburg and the capital of russian ballet preserving the plastic card and throwing modern 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 down 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 ask, 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. i never know till well you say your opinion item yes, it's true that you well, each person has certain talents. so naturally this financial problem does the term talent. here's what it denotes, special abilities. i'm the only one person that a 1000000000 may have become really describe what it is, but it's intuitive. and i would say it's what do you find it interesting to watch someone. however, on skilful late may seem and then you don't want to watch anyone else. some people need to grab your attention to them both. while this count will pay a bit, even if they're doing the same thing. no amount of hardware can produce talent because they use the words edit. can nobody help you master a ballet movement. it's a kind of,

if you have sure times you have them for life. it's kind of can unfortunately, if you're born with a short neck or legs, we found remedies that question. that's how you were born. and this is what it will prevent you from fulfilling your potential in classical ballet. it was to tell 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 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. that's absolutely true to deal with and what are the consequences and i just have a son. what kind of in your generation are 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 russian bass and bowl game series or helps. gotcha. we'll say plastics. so kind of a game that was very popular in the se union who'd be a great sir. so we played all these games and wanted to left. i mean, this meant we were not in the run around the law. so we also have to watch other players and be not so your brakes and then you have to memorize the pattern. if the game was complete, you 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 some, you know, of those 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 valley pods 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 depending if it 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 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 is it just you can see at once, if a kid has a talent for ballet, smoke, so to leave, you know, but unfortunately everything is decided in puberty. i'm going to talk to the people that are coming up from, you know, it's when, when hormones kick in, the male and female bodies develop actually got a more nice too, but it's my missing, it's. if it's a good the tip and everything can change in that moment,

then you can 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 continue as much my know years 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 the pretty do a section is official fully dedicated to douglas russian seasons and the space here

. you can see original posters from 190919114 richard portions. it's a, this is an original set of post up. it is. if you sit over it this article and that one is buys, you don't kill to the thought. everything he is related to the seasons. is a ballet cause lead? can you do you have the well no one has ever performed it 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 russia as well. which is usually it's very difficult to dust this bottom because this costume has a 66 centimeter waste. essentially, it would have to squeeze into what was funny when we were looking for a manic in for this cost you. we realize nobody produced mannequins for that size wherever we called and it was still possible to ship from anywhere back then. they told us that, well, no man of that height width, that waist line is picked. we think otherwise, it wouldn't fit for it. and when this guy arrived, it was the same as model i had to,

but we still have to calculate the material to fasten the cost you is what i say it . i know i should watch my diet blocks if nothing is. 6 6 6 the comparing evidence is 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 a looking, but also incredibly strong as well. um are the conditions to become a valet 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 at the what a 100 photos. ok most spec one for each year of the past century age reflecting the beauty standards of a particular. yeah. i flicking through them, you could see how male and female body types evolved over the 20th century, but they did that. it of so i'm glad the will. of course, those beauty standards influenced ballet aesthetics too. since at the start of the century, the performers and dances had short legs and short. um, so i know you've been didn't down to the back then we should never be in the 19 twenty's and said he's done a positive. it appeared on stage, bringing in a fashion for delicate, long limbed females on the problem levels of believing then came in raising change, and the russian empire alone got out flooded into the country. and i see that broad surface to the ballet stage was 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 from all sorts of some assaults. something ballet had never seen until then video screen deep. it's unfortunate the nationality and origin do play a major role in a ballet. dunces professional prospect. so not in this to police gets the same for the opera, send the video it's made, but it's known that 2nd claim at exams produce oper. thing is with high pitched voices, you might decide that's how it will happen before it can go up. and now we have what we have. what talk prisoners flip with. i'm gonna stay with the shooting. kim is one of the great dancers of today, coming from korea, chose to dance here at the muranski theater, the jimmy and kim. thanks for taking the time to meet us today. so i have to ask why russell? oh, because i like it for me. i was trained in korea, my home country. yeah, i was invited sedans for marian ski theater when i was 18 and it's been great since then rushes,

my 2nd home. i love the city or not. i love the theaters. love 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 and what is that extra mile if you will? what makes a good answer? fell a as 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 ski 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 the what 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 whites and blacks one and then not the same using jordan a dealer. if, if i'm going to start a new number, i is law. the authors of swan lake used white and black to contrast to good and evil, and those and in 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 women tonight, the message of valet performance, the tragedy of molding santo river, the past 20 years has been the most valet companies in the world, a run by people who have never done to 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, which comes with bang every time i say 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 the visual double. by the time i totally jump, pulling new hydrogen for you is, this is not what inspired me to make value. my profession made a near point, meaning if there are no changes to say of to management in the near future on the, 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 of 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 was, can we just invent a new one?

as such as your classic stake will be made the way it was made 400 years ago over 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 to check and 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 then martin valley and then also very talented people who states really amazing performances in the thing. and in france, america, germany on the front. so i need to give 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 it was it, she would visit them, but lifting over with the and yet valet 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. constantly and take a look is

a prize winning choreographer who is taking his productions to the bulk of weight and dimensions, q theaters, and beyond. the concept team, thank you very much for taking the time to meet with us today. uh 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? initially the issue with the community, we don't care much for things that are too straightforward. we experiment with more and strange stories 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 states, and inviting viewers to join us. you've also said in the past, is that a dance or is kind of a co author of a new work or a new piece? p is, i 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 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 as an artist, because what else? 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. um, what are the rules and the differences there of conditions go do a set and the rules in modern dance as well?

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 process of working with the floor. somebody in the classical dance doesn't have much of the principles of working with the text. as you know, more than done shows may include parts with performance talk, oprah, vote the audience cetera. when faced with modern choreography, classical ballet dancers begin to re interpreted as well. it becomes more interesting if they add amplitude, volume and depths, turn to this number repeatedly, i'm human looms. uh the yes, but i think that classical art should remain classical. they have nothing against the choreographer putting on a modern interpretation of swan lake by,

for example. why not? it could be interesting to you. we don't live in the past. after all, it's like 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 marius p to pie, 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 at once so that nobody in a badly school live school does a regular public school. so that is to let the car confuse you and to music school . i know what it's still that way. today i'm receiving a kid comes here at the age of 10 for the been graduated 18 as

a highly skilled specialist. when he considered, when i was old, that was set up 285 years ago that he lived another during world war 2 in italy in front of that as well from see countries that invented this out in that scully stopped to pingdom and that is because everything stopped my view shows maybe it was in this city. what is it which spend $900.00 days under a blockade and they listened, adjusting stopped. not once this over. right? yeah. yeah. this is different with micro climate for outs. if. if the, when i think about the people here, the way it was stopped, but essentially do not been showing them since they, i knew the mileage. tim stein in, it was still teaching ballet to children being bullied. it's impossible to believe . as you say, when you might say it's an amazing thing and you're going to name is in russia, and sally is more than i know it's more than a national lot for someone coming. definitely in 1956 when the boss,

i say that they came to london streets out the world went bonkers, especially for months. nobody had ever seen anything like it before. the end, if the russians hadn't given it to the welsh, thanks to 2 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. 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 during school he loves dancing so much that he made his whole royal court take up, dancing, or even dramatic plays with staged with elements of dancing and the new phones. and this late to revolved into and out today we called ballet, was to cut the resumes and i had somebody for over a 100 years, valet was something very elevated or to approaching. we spoke of how many common

people backs in that was knew anything about the greek gods. you just, you know, one looked open you. i smelled, and she, i'm kind of yours and i'm with the emotions of message occasions, most of what i do instead of something like what the soviet union brought about, hung up in the us or absolutely. everybody was involved in education and equally was to and everybody knew what the things you know, some things kindly became accessible to everyone. but you more. why did some countries make the effort to stop the translations of the bible and williams? 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. it didn't mean everyone fell in love with bella. 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 close to the, you know, it's like all for a valley is a very off official form of out by you and what we'd have done. so things like that

in real life. i don't know when you go to see an offer. you knows if you will be listening to a tragedy or a comedy. pardon me? do you want his last day to see christian, which in part of you enjoy a simple story with a beautiful music and sound who couldn't believe to move the valet was about because you embrace the beauty of movements and to use your imagination device of my browser in you, you must though a lot of people, right. look almost well, how many of them have a good match the national laws of the woods loves to judge. 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 it with the mode joys, i guess the

so classical belly it 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 is publicans? this is actually an interesting question. i think you should see more than dogs 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 come skis, music, omen cases or whatever it may be. so it's a comfortable environment for them that looks familiar. so perhaps not. so i said this is more of a question for the audience themselves. to what extent are they prepared to explore a new environment with a very simple way of watching you films,

visit different kinds of museums, see different performances and explore more than drama. explore modern painting is addressed, so it requires effort to go through for an untrained eye, a person like me just a general viewer. what do you look for in valet? what makes it good? i mean, i know that i can see a 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 done 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 do owe you a sleeping beauty. what's your contribution to this carriage 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. this is the 1st thing i care about. number 2, again, is a mount losing myself in meditation. so that i don't think of all the stage lines suitable,

how well the dunces for it is pointed open. i want to lose myself in the performance . 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 familiar and you've got the most important thing has always been making shows that people who went to see a show wouldn't count a beauty when we get the policy inception. maybe start them thinking to when they feel by energy use noon actually is pulling, lifting proofs. one leg is done well, it's much more than being just about black and white person. right. next thing is it's about making a choice. everyone makes choices with directions. that's very important. the nutcracker is also not just a christmas fairy tale to print. you could try kosky meant for it to be

a story about saying good bye to childhood. i will keep on split that mathew smith . the question is give. every person goes through that and every person gets nostalgic about childhood, even if it wasn't a happy one in which people often want to go back to be younger. see grandma real mom when she was young? that was that's what the knob track is about. the use of dream and then you understand you should winter, right? but at the stage, the cut the thing when you're stuck ratios, let's use those. we've come to a critical point when something is about to happen all over the world. stilton though you cannot make crisis 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. comes advisable to get from the the system is dying invasion, well known store is a list and 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 anymore 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. was it has been everything will collapse again in a 100 years or so. please call us with relative to close up. i. yeah, it is. my own chalet is beauty. under 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 here. i think some of the, of the distressing images is one of india's was trained functions in history explains the lives of at least a 120 pop in just a least moving 800 inches with emergency cruise that still fits into the rack. and it's just the same, the russian civilians evacuate on mass from the belgrade region for designs that you're creating