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rise from the french to major opera houses at her next job as courtis to director of the berlin state ballet. performance art you started your company twenty five years ago with your hands under it could you ever have imagined the international success you've had since africa. nonce entire noises and after in one thousand nine hundred three after the fall of the berlin wall and shortly after enough occasion the central district of measure was a place of seemingly endless opportunities. we any opened our venue in the safin zillah three years later in one thousand nine hundred six. before that we were like nomads wandering from one industrial space to the next and each time we started up a nice chidi or as it is an unfunny from the outset we toured internationally we toured the us on our second or third year we traveled to india and toured a lot in europe peeling off. so right from the start travelling was part of our identity it was our aspiration and our concept. of also says first that nestles a little we wanted to build bridges with our art and take it to different audiences to countries a

the state ballet and i think she was very successful that this is wonderful pictures from the openingof the noise museum here which isn't working itself as we and they very cleverly used the museum as the stage the whole of the museum so effectively that was actually staged in two thousand and nine the opening of. the new version of the museum if you like i mean i think now she really has a chance to change classical ballet i mean i think it's very exciting and we'll have to see next year she's doing a pretty. ordinary sort of classical ballet but in twenty twenty she will actually perform some own work. invented by her as well so it's going to be very interesting time for them looking forward to personally i guess we have a lot more to see of her work on the special that are twenty one is doing yeah doing the whole hall. it's twenty one this weekend and you can find more about it on our website w dot com slash culture of coals and when where and when you can watch it those are interested robin thank you so much robin merrill from d.w. culture. and just a reminder for you of our top s

home of sasha belts as company the choreographer will soon leave her post here to work at the state balletnot everyone was pleased with the appointment of a contemporary dance choreographer as artistic director of the state ballet at first many of the classical dancers were against the idea but things have since come down. the clubs for them i think it's a great opportunity for dance to explore these extreme positions on the one side to really preserve classical ballet and on the other a contemporary choreographer with a contemporary language in this diversity to explore different ways of working with the body. in the early one thousand nine hundred such a vault returned from new york to re unified berlin and went from strength to strength in the civilian sailor theater she would stage her first big success lead it cosmonaut or have a new at the cosmonauts. and offbeat a market production on the absurdities of domestic life one recount siniora of living together without escape routes. vaults and her company's sasha vaults and guests travel extensively. yeah although it's in the sky isn't o

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now there's no cause at all for on the start taking on the state ballet is certainly a major challenge so i've been preparing for it for two and a half or nearly three years i think. it's a very long process and yes i want to actually stop a job until two thousand and nineteen common. there were initially huge protests over the decision to appoint a contemporary choreographer to co-direct the state ballet the traditional dancers were not happy with the actual votes had actually worked with the state ballet before writing a solo piece for its former artistic director of light in their mother calls to great acclaim. these angry protests have now seen just. one thing is clear taking over the state ballet is national vox's biggest breakthrough today and a huge challenge. this is for ten times that qualify think it's a great opportunity for dance in general to explore these extreme positions. booklets books are on the one hand to really preserve classical ballet and the whole history and to stage classical productions that are very high level because one after another i don't have a hand to

now there's no cause at all for on the start taking on the state ballet is certainly a major challenge so i've been preparing for it for two and a half or nearly three years i think. it's a very long process and yes i want to actually stop a job until two thousand and nineteen common. there were initially huge protests over the decision to appoint a contemporary choreographer to co-direct estate ballet the traditional dancers were not happy with the actual votes had actually worked with the state ballet before writing a solo piece for its former artistic director of light in their mother called to great acclaim. these angry protests have now seen just. one thing is clear taking over the state ballet is national vox's biggest breakthrough today and a huge challenge. this is for ten times not qualify think it's a great opportunity for dance in general to explore these extreme positions. booklets books are on the one hand to really preserve classical ballet and the whole history and to stage classical productions that are very high level because one of the island's ited i don't they have

in the united states the new york city ballet is starting a new season despite an ongoing abuse scandal the company has lost three of its top don says after they were accused of sharing sexually explicit photos of their colleagues the case is exposed what some are calling a culture of poor treatment of women and the world of ballet. has more. with some of the world's top dancers the new york city ballet is world renowned for its athletic and contemporary style a promotional video gives a preview of what's to come this season he season that starting with the ballet in deep crisis facing a lawsuit. ballet dancers alexandra waterbury and chase finley are seen here the lawsuit accuses him of taking and sharing explicit photos of her without her consent and then sharing them with other male dancers he resigned from the ballet to other dancers and a donor are also named in the lawsuit old deny wrongdoing the two dancers were fired by the new york city ballet but lawyers for waterbury are also suing the new york city ballet as well as its official training academy for fostering what the lawsui