decided to show me to one of the jury members who is engaged. in the recruitment of children to the eifman academyooked at me and said that i had a chance to enter, having finished the fifth grade in a regular school, i went ... again to the fifth grade, but already to the boris eifman dance academy, when i entered the academy, i did not quite understand what i was doing and who i would be, well, i studied classics, there i tried everywhere, but i never thought who i would become and that dancing could be a profession, over time, a classical dance teacher somehow began to show us, well, already in older classes, male variations, excerpts from ballets. and there i saw ivan vasiliev, and leonid sarafanov, at that moment i thought that i wanted to be like them, i had tried hard in class before, but then i realized what i needed, i began to work extra in the hall myself, in general, that's when i realized that i wanted to be like them and also surprise people, like me i was surprised by these dancers, as i know from stories, i wasn’t really... they wanted to let my parents go, but they understood that