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(WATER FLOWING)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
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I was very lucky to go one night
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and see New York City Ballet
perform The Nutcracker.
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RUBY: The Nutcracker?
That's the main reason why...
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New York City Ballet was such...
I was so drawn to it.
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ELIAS: This is my ticket
from seeing The Nutcracker
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and that was so inspiring
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because I've seen The Nutcracker
online in like videos,
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but I've never been able to see it live.
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DOMINIKA:
At the School of American Ballet,
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advanced and intermediate students
don't get to be in The Nutcracker.
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Only the children's divisionand little kids get to be in it.
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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It's like an experience
you've never had before.
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Like, and you can actually say
when you're older,
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I was a dancer in The Nutcracker.
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These are my paychecks
from New York City Ballet.
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Not totally professional,
but kind of,
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in a little, itty-bitty way.
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DENA: The thing about this Nutcracker isthat the children are an integral role
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in the productionand the kids are in school
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and they have so many obligationsand they're young.
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But their commitmentto all the rehearsal time
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and the performances is a lot.
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The discipline that they learn,the hard work,
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the joy of performingis something they will never ever forget,
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and certainly their parents won't either.
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(ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYING)
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DENA: Here we go.
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(SWITCH CLICKS)
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DENA: Today is the first dayof The Nutcracker rehearsals.
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Every Sunday, we will be rehearsingfor many, many hours.
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And then every weekday after classes,we'll be rehearsing,
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because we have two casts.
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Come on in, girls and boys.
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DENA: Sixty-three in each cast
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and we have the rolesof Angels, Soldiers,
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Prince and Marie, the Polichinelles,the Hoops, and the Sentry
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and the Trumpeter,
like there are so many specific roles
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and group parts where sometimesthey all have to be together
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and sometimes we have to rehearsethem all separately.
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So, it's a tremendous amount of work...
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One, two, three.
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...before we open in Thanksgiving.
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I know we're all very excited,
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but the way we work, yeah,
it's... it's a rehearsal
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and we have to work well
and efficiently together.
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SOPHIA: A lot of the time on days off,
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we get to come to Long Islandto visit our cousins.
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We came today to celebrate my birthday.
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-SOPHIA: Hi.
-ALEXANDRA: Hi.
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Happy birthday.
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SOPHIA: (LAUGHS) Oh my God!
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(LAUGHS)
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-Oh, my God, I love it.
-Surprise,
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-we're so proud of you.
-Thank you.
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This year we were like over the moon,
we were so excited for her.
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We're so proud of herand she works so hard.
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SOPHIA:
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Thank you!
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ALL: Happy birthday to you!
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-That is so nice.
-ALEXANDRA: What does it say? Look.
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"Marie, The Nutcracker,
Lincoln Center, 2019."
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KELLY: That's so great.
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And your... your boy cousins
are finally coming to the ballet.
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(LAUGHS) They're very excited.
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
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SOPHIA: To be Marie, the princessin The Nutcracker,
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it's super special.
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It's a really big opportunity,
with a lot of different parts to it.
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It's kind of stressful,'cause I didn't know
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if I was going to get a part or not
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and it was like a four-hour audition,
so it was long. (CHUCKLES)
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And then at the end,
they told me and Charlotte
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that we were Marieand we were kind of shocked.
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I'm, like, so excited.
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ELLA: Sophia, she's one of my, like,closest friends.
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And I was super excited
when I heard she got Marie,
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like, I called her
and I was like, "Oh, my God." (LAUGHS)
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I mean, it is really...it's like a big role.
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She was like, "I rememberI saw girls last year
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"who didn't get anything,"
and so she was terrified.
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And then she told me,
she was like, "I got Marie,"
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and I was...
And I called her immediately
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and I was like,
"You got Marie, didn't you?"
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And she was like, "Yeah,"
and I was really excited for her.
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DENA: Hi, girls.
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Okay.
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Our big moment, right?
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Our first Marie rehearsal,
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so the story is,
you got your favorite toy,
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you're so excited
you got the Nutcracker as a gift
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and you're all ready for bed
and you can't find him.
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And then there's this...
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(VOCALIZES)
That's stand and get ready to go.
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The child who dances Marie,it's a very special role.
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You need to have a personwith imagination...
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who can find within themselves,
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a way to express youth and wonder.
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(CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
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Okay.
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Um, you have to imagine that
this is your house...
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It's making it real for them
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that really helps the storyread to the audience.
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It's important that you connect with him,
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it's like, even though he's so ugly,
you love him, okay? (LAUGHS)
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And hug him with your shoulders even.
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That's the kind of feelingyou have to have
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when you hug that Nutcracker.
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If that doesn't come across,
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it doesn't do justice to the story.
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Your little, tiny face has to read
to thousands of people on a huge stage.
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So your expressions,
I don't want them to be fake,
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but they have to be noticeable, okay?
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It just takes practice.
Takes a lot of practice.
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KAY: I had to do a ballet once
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that I really thoughtwas not the right ballet for me.
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Balanchine kept saying,
"Nope you're gonna do, I want you to do...
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"I want you to do this ballet."
And I said...
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(SIGHS) ..."I don't think so."
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And I went running out
for my first entrance
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and I fell flat on the floor and...
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and then afterwards I said to him,
"Did you expect that?" (LAUGHS)
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He said, "I know you're trying
your hardest, all the energy is there."
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You get up.
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(PIANO PLAYING)
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KAY: Down, down, down. Good job.
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Plié, up, down, up, down...
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With the older students who knowthey want to make this a profession,
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it's so important that you havethe dedication,
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that you're going to be in there
a hundred percent
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and learn what you have to learnand do it to the best of your ability.
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Zoe, wait. Hold on. Can you go out?
Okay, now we're gonna go down together.
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Wait, no!
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ZOE: The first class that I took at SAB,total switch in
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how I'd been brought up,my ballet training.
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So to get the feet
moving how they're supposed to,
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and the quickness and deep pliés
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and everything was hard,because my muscles weren't used to that.
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TAELA: It's a lot more challenging.
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I definitely feel like I lost
a little bit of confidence,
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beating myself up, focusing on like,
am I good enough?
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RUBY: A lot of people tend tolabel themselves as a turner,
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or a jumper, or identifyas their strongest points.
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Things that don't necessarily come
naturally to me, definitely, are turns.
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I just always have to remind myselfof the muscles I need to engage.
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For some people,they can just go into a turn
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and everything just turns on I guess.
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ALLEN: At their age,we're talking about like 14, 15, maybe 16,
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that's where it really comesinto focus more.
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They've not peaked,
but they've really ascended
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to where they're kind of going to be
for almost the rest of their dance career.
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They come to class every daywith excitement and want to dance.
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And without that, I don't think
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you can achieve the goalto be a dancer.
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STERLING: Hold on to it, fight for it.
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Okay.
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KAY: Plié, and bend your necks.
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And fourth.
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Bend.
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One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.
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DOMINIKA: It's hard to keep pushingyourself every single day.
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KAY: ...five, six, seven, eight.
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Dominika, show me where you want to...
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How you want to bend there for that.
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Down, up, down, better,
could be even a little more in that body.
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And some days you might feel down
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and don't want to do this anymore,
but then at the end of the night
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you're like, "I want to keep
doing this, I don't want to quit."
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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(CLOCK TICKING)
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ARCH: It's gonna be so much fun.
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First is look at lyrics.
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We can sort of read it as we go.
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KAI: The first rehearsal is alwaysthe most exciting one,
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because you're like,
"Oh no, what are we going to do,
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"is it going to be good?"
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Tell you every...
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Rond de jambe... thing. (CHUCKLES) Right?
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Their gestures are linked to the wordsof the pantomime,
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so once they knowwhat they're speaking,
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it really connectsthe movement for them.
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Good, one...
Yeah, you want to start that again?
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KAI:
The nerves of being, like, a new Prince,
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I just came with an open mind,
but I still was really nervous.
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"I will tell you" is faster,
it's not slow,
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it's more speaking quickly.
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Right, but it's sort of
in the middle of those two.
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KAI: But I knew thatif I focused on it too much
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then I would just,
like, work myself up. (CHUCKLES)
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DENA:
You okay? (CHUCKLES) It's a lot.
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One, two, three.
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-We have until...
-No...
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-...the day after December, of...
-...Thanksgiving,
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-The day after Thanksgiving.
-Yeah, Thanksgiving.
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(PIANO PLAYING)
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KAI:
The Prince turns into the Nutcracker...
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and does the battle scene
as the Nutcracker.
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DENA: One, two, three, four.
Two, two, three, four.
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And then she faints on to the bed.
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And then he turns into the Prince.
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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SOPHIA: She wakes up to the Prince.
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And then they go to the Land of Sweets.
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And it's all very magical.
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Okay, okay, it's better,
but needs more.
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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-CHRIS: So how was rehearsal today?
-KAI: It was good.
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CHRIS: We have to go northto go south today, right?
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Because the one...
Look, see the one train is closed here.
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KAI: Mm-hmm.
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Do I have anything to do tomorrow?
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Tomorrow you have nothing to do.
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-What do you want to do?
-Homework.
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Starting middle school, it's like
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two pages of writing a day sometimes,
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so it's really challengingto balance it all out.
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CHRIS: Here, Kai, I think we can cross
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-quickly here.
-KAI: Are you sure?
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CHRIS: Don't tell your mom
we're crossing on red lights.
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-KAI: You're a jaywalker normally.
-CHRIS: I'm a jaywalker.
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(FEMALE VOICE OVER PA)
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KAI: And do you know what Nirvana is?
It's a shopping place or something?
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-No, nirvana means like heaven.
-KAI: Mm-hmm.
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-It's like a place you want to go to.
-KAI: Hmm.
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CHRIS: Street festival.
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KAI: I live in Queens, New York.
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I live with my parents and my sister.
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CHRIS: Even my relatives saywhen they try to explain to people
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what... what Kai is in,
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they assume that it's a kids production
of The Nutcracker. Um...
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-So, it's sort of hard.
-I mean, it was actually Zune
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who three years ago said,
"Mom, he's...
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"He's at the Lincoln Center,
he's nine years old, and he's dancing."
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You know, that was his first Nutcracker.
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She's like, "That's a big deal." And so...
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Yeah.
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-It's too small...
-KAI: My sister is 15 years old.
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I get along with her,I feel like we're nice to each other,
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and then we...
normal sibling relationship.
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Probably get into a lot of fights.
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But other than that, it's good. (LAUGHS)
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ZUNE: Dad, just carve
the outside lines of the eye,
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-because I'm making it bigger.
-CHRIS: Okay.
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ZUNE: When I was five years old,he would watch me do ballet
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and just do the exact same thing
I was doing, but watching.
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So then he started taking classes,and then gymnastics.
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The mouth is weird. (CHUCKLES) Sorry.
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-KAI: It looks cool.
-CHRIS: It's a classic pumpkin.
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ZUNE: Yeah.
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Make it scary.
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KAI:
I don't really know how to make it scary.
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ZUNE: We would hear a lot of people say,
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"Oh, maybe he'll getthe Prince this year."
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I just had a feeling
that he would get it this year.
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I just didn't want to say it out loud...
(LAUGHS) ...and everything,
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but, yeah, I think it's really exciting.
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CHRIS: All right, Zune, not great but...
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-KAI: Can I see?
-It's fine. (LAUGHS)
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-KAI: Can I see it?
-(ALL LAUGH)
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ZUNE: Yeah, it's good.
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There it is. Is it spooky?
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We should turn all the lights off.
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(THUNDER RUMBLING)
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(SIREN WAILING)
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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ANGELICA: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
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ISABELA: Mm-hmm.
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(MUMBLES) Homework notebook.
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ANGELICA: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
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ISABELA: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
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(IN ENGLISH) I'll be participatingas an Angel in The Nutcracker.
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I felt I was not gonna make it.
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But turns out, I did.
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-ANGELICA: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-ISABELA: Uh-huh.
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-ANGELICA: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-ISABELA: Uh-huh.
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I'm in 4th grade and I swim,
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I box, I'm starting to do softball,
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and I dance in two schools.
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Is factor seven...
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ANGELICA: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
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Remainder nine.
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Division with remainders,sometimes it's challenging
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and it's hard for me.
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ISABELA: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
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You need to tell me, like,
explain me this,
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not tell me what is the answer.
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-Then you bring down the one.
-Yeah, so I got it right?
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-WILL: Yeah.
-Okay.
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-(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(ISABELA CHUCKLES)
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-LUIS: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-ISABELA: Mm-hmm.
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-LUIS: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-ISABELA: Mm-hmm.
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-ISABELA: (SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-ANGELICA: (LAUGHS)
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(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
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ANGELICA: (LAUGHS)
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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DENA: Okay, Angels, let's begin.
Come on down!
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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DENA: Everyone go to your spot.
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Okay. Ava, Isabela.
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Okay. Come here, come here.
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It's really different workingwith the Angels
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because they're so young.
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So spread out like you were...
We're not in fifth position, honey.
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And one, two, three.
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This is their first foot in the doorfor stage performance,
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for The Nutcracker,
for New York City Ballet,
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for this whole performanceaspect of dancing.
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Okay, Isabela,
don't pick up your feet at all, right.
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If you have ice skates on...
Do you ever go ice-skating?
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You glide, right?
You feel like you're gliding.
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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ISABELA: In The Nutcracker, the Angels,
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they glide with big dresses.
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By the count of seven,
you should be on center.
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You need to move your feet faster.
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We did counts,
when we had to go
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and what we had to do.
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DENA: ...seven. Don't walk, Isabela.
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Okay. Not bad.
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There were a few of you
who were a little bit ahead of your count.
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Some people messed up on their counts,
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or they didn't get their counts right,
or they didn't go on the right time.
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One, two, three, four. Turn five...
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It's a lot to memorize, like,they have to memorize the sequence,
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counting, and formations.
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-Right?
-Yeah.
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Get behind her this way.
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So if you're drawing,
if you like to draw,
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it's sometimes fun to draw the formation
down with arrows,
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so you know which direction you're going.
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AVA:
In our dance, there's a lot of patterns.
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You have to be right on time,
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or else you're going to mess up
the next pattern.
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DENA: And what are you going to do
when you get home?
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ALL: Practice.
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-(PIANO PLAYING)
-DENA: Five, two...
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(THROUGH COMPUTER) ...three, four.First girls, five, six, seven...
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To practice our counts, Ms. Abergel
just sent out the music,
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so we could practice at home.
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DENA: One, two, three, four, five...
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I feel like it's a lot of pressure,
especially since I'm the first Angel,
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so I'm kind of like the leader,
so I have to guide the whole path.
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-(BIANCA LAUGHING)
-A Pas de Bourrée.
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I had a moment today
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to just, like, really look at
that calendar
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and it's about to get real,
you know, so..
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It's about to get serious for sure.
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-That was beautiful.
-That was good.
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(PIANO PLAYING)
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RUBY: As an advanced student,that's when you start thinking about
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what you want to do in this career,because you've come this far
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and you've realized thatthis is what you love.
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MARK:
What did you think of class yesterday?
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SAM: It was really fun.
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Yeah, we did a lot of, like,
interesting combinations
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-that we don't usually do.
-The pas de chat one
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when you had to go like that...
-SAM: (LAUGHS)
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-...I just couldn't do it.
-SAM: I couldn't do it,
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-me neither.
-Yeah.
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No, it was like so hard, like,
coordinating the arms and the legs.
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-Yeah, and it was so fast...
-Yeah.
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-...that it was like, ugh.
-Uh-huh.
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I'm not looking forward to senior year.
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I feel like that's going to be
such a stressful time.
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And I feel like it's harder for us,
because like most normal teenagers
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have to worry about, like,
getting into college,
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but like us, it's, like, the dream
obviously is getting into college
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-and getting into a company...
-SAM: Yeah.
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...which is like twice the struggle.
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SAM: I feel like even if you don't end upat New York City Ballet,
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whatever company you end up dancing in,
like, the director there
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will automatically see
that you're from SAB
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'cause you just have that, like,
energy and passion in your movement.
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-(SWITCHES CLICK)
-(MUSIC PLAYING)
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I am a junior this year,
but a lot of my classmates,
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it's their senior year in high school,
so they're auditioning for companies,
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they're seeing what career paththey want to take.
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(MUMBLING)
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-Yes, you do.
-Yes.
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ALLEN: We want to find jobsfor all of them, if possible.
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And find a good fit
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for kind of joining
the professional world.
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SION: So, our students get to auditionfor this year's 16 companies
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from across the States.
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And several international companiesas well.
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They've arrived at this point
in their training,
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everything they've done
has been for this, for the job,
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right? To be able to do this for a living.
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The biggest, like the dream,
is to be an apprentice
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for the New York City Ballet.
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ZOE:
An apprentice with New York City Ballet,
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it's how everyone begins
their transition into the company.
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Bourrée, bourrée, right diagonal...
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The apprenticeship lasts a year
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and it gives the dancers a chance
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to get used to being ina professional company for the first time.
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It also gives them the chance
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to be seen on stage,
which is very different
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than being seen as a student.
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And it gives them an extra yearfor them to learn
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and to be seeing if it's a good fitfor them in New York City Ballet.
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DOMINIKA: Of course the long-term goalis to get an apprenticeship
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in New York City Ballet.
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It's just always in the back of my head.
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TAELA: With ballet, it's not justmaking national team and that's it.
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With ballet, you get in a company
and you get to explore
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further with your abilities.
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ELIAS: I think you come to SAB
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to get into New York City Ballet,
that's everyone's goal,
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but of course they can't take everyone.
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(MUSIC PLAYING)
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(KIDS LAUGHING)
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-SCOTT: Hey!
-BRANDON: Hello.
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-Hi, Dad
-SCOTT: Hey, buddy. Hey.
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SABRINA: (SMOOCHES) Hi.
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Hello.
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SCOTT:
You know this is a green smoothie, right?
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Tomorrow he has rehearsal,
and then on Thursday
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you have Fritz and Marie,
just Fritz and Marie rehearsal.
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-BRANDON: Wait, really?
-SABRINA: Mm-hmm.
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BRANDON: I'll mark that on my calendar.
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-(SABRINA LAUGHS)
-SCOTT: All right. Hold your ears.
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(BLENDER WHIRS)
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BRANDON: Last year,I was a Party Boy for Nutcracker,
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and this year I'm Fritz,
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an obnoxious brat... (CHUCKLES)
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...who is kind of spoiled
and he kind of thinks everything is funny,
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even mean things,
but he has, like, this playfulness to him
433
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that's really fun to play with.
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SABRINA: You know you're going to miss
your class trip on Friday?
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-SCOTT: Yeah.
-SABRINA: Because you're going...
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You have rehearsal.
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I'm excited.
I'm excited for opening night.
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That will be fun. Yeah.
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Because of Nutcracker,I'm pretty busy.
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But like dancing, acting,dancing and singing and theater,
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this is what I do for fun, like,
this is my ideal fun.
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Just doing what I love.
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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(HORNS HONKING)
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-ARCH: That was a long day already.
-(DENA LAUGHS)
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ARCH: (LAUGHS) I've been going,
going, going, going.
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-Party, party, party.
-DENA: Hi, guys!
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-(KIDS CHATTERING)
-DENA: Shh.
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So let's have the red cast over here.
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Everyone in the red cast.
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And the green cast over here.
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Do you understand
what an alternate means, guys?
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-ALL: Yes.
-DENA: Okay.
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In the other show,
he's doing the same part, okay?
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BRANDON: The teachers are very helpful
and they're saying
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look at where your alternate is.
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And they say,
"Copy exactly where they are,
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"because if someone gets sick
then you have to be in that exact spot."
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ARCH: Everyone introduce themselves
to one another.
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DENA: This is going to be your partner
for, like, two months now.
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So we know that you're not used to,
in the 21st century,
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dancing with boys all the time.
463
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But in the time that this took place,
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boys and girls danced together
all the time,
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it was very normal,
because they didn't have, um, games.
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Like to play with their fingers,
so they actually danced with each other.
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Party Scene is a very longsection of the ballet,
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so a young child needs to be ableto remember the sequence
469
00:25:33,899 --> 00:25:37,069
and the specific stepsand the formations and the music.
470
00:25:37,152 --> 00:25:41,162
Good, boys!
Five, six, seven, and right, left...
471
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,620
BRANDON: It's hard at first,but I'm good at memorizing steps, like,
472
00:25:45,703 --> 00:25:48,663
if you were to tell me, like,
a bunch of steps and I do them
473
00:25:48,747 --> 00:25:51,747
while you're talking,
I could probably do it, yeah.
474
00:25:51,834 --> 00:25:54,174
-Would you like to do it again?
-Okay, sure.
475
00:25:54,336 --> 00:25:56,916
DENA: And step together and step...
476
00:25:57,297 --> 00:25:59,257
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
477
00:26:03,429 --> 00:26:05,349
-JULIE: I got all your stuff laid out.
-GABBIE: Okay.
478
00:26:05,431 --> 00:26:06,641
JULIE: You just have to get ready.
479
00:26:09,852 --> 00:26:12,352
-JULIE: I packed you snacks
-Okay.
480
00:26:13,230 --> 00:26:15,020
JULIE:
Try to eat some of the healthy things.
481
00:26:15,357 --> 00:26:16,357
GABBIE: Okay.
482
00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:21,200
During The Nutcracker season,there's lots of no sleep.
483
00:26:24,867 --> 00:26:27,447
There's a lot of rehearsals,
484
00:26:27,745 --> 00:26:29,905
the rehearsals get a little tiring.
485
00:26:29,997 --> 00:26:33,577
They're like, "If you can'tmake a class or something,
486
00:26:33,667 --> 00:26:35,497
"don't do it if you're tired."
487
00:26:36,086 --> 00:26:39,466
Like, I've... I went to bed
at like twelve o'clock yesterday.
488
00:26:39,715 --> 00:26:41,795
ARCH: Okay, girls. Go, go!
We don't have much time! Go!
489
00:26:41,884 --> 00:26:44,644
GABBIE:
This is my third year of doing Nutcracker
490
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,720
and I ended up
with being a Hoop this year.
491
00:26:49,016 --> 00:26:50,226
They want those Hoops.
492
00:26:50,726 --> 00:26:52,266
(MUSIC PLAYING)
493
00:26:52,478 --> 00:26:55,188
GABBIE: We're the backup dancersfor the lead Hoop.
494
00:26:56,148 --> 00:26:59,778
For the Hoops, we especially needto look at the conductor,
495
00:26:59,860 --> 00:27:02,950
because he goes one, two,
and then we have to start to run,
496
00:27:03,030 --> 00:27:05,660
because we run before the music starts.
497
00:27:05,741 --> 00:27:07,531
ARCH: Here we go, watch the conductor.
498
00:27:07,826 --> 00:27:09,076
(MUSIC PLAYING)
499
00:27:09,161 --> 00:27:11,501
-(ARCH CLAPS)
-(MUSIC STOPS)
500
00:27:12,164 --> 00:27:14,084
ARCH:
I don't want that to happen on stage.
501
00:27:14,166 --> 00:27:16,246
Eyes are right...
Don't look in the mirror.
502
00:27:16,376 --> 00:27:18,876
Mr. Higgins is definitely very calm.
503
00:27:19,213 --> 00:27:21,593
Uh, I don't know how he's so calm.
504
00:27:21,673 --> 00:27:24,053
-This helps you keep a straight line.
-GIRL: Oh.
505
00:27:24,134 --> 00:27:26,604
-If we do this, we're gonna start...
-(GIRLS LAUGHING)
506
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,760
At the same time, he's very fun.
507
00:27:29,431 --> 00:27:32,311
Yeah, no... Oh.
Pretzel, pretzel, pretzel time.
508
00:27:32,392 --> 00:27:33,732
-(GIRLS LAUGH)
-No pretzel.
509
00:27:33,811 --> 00:27:34,941
Show me with Gabbie.
510
00:27:35,187 --> 00:27:37,857
Ready, go. Across, cross, cross, yes.
511
00:27:37,940 --> 00:27:41,280
I was actually one of those kids
who got cut my first year.
512
00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:42,740
(PIANO PLAYING)
513
00:27:42,903 --> 00:27:46,663
GABBIE: All these girlswere rehearsing in studios...
514
00:27:47,241 --> 00:27:48,331
ARCH: Chin up, girls!
515
00:27:49,952 --> 00:27:52,332
I threw out my Nutcracker poster.
516
00:27:52,871 --> 00:27:54,671
ARCH: Swing! Good, not too far back.
517
00:27:55,582 --> 00:27:56,632
That's good, that's far enough.
518
00:27:56,708 --> 00:27:58,998
And I refused to see The Nutcracker.
519
00:28:03,549 --> 00:28:06,009
ARCH: Good, it's getting closer
and closer each time. Good.
520
00:28:10,931 --> 00:28:12,311
(PIANO PLAYING)
521
00:28:12,808 --> 00:28:15,478
KATRINA: And down, 90, get there, go.
522
00:28:16,145 --> 00:28:17,305
Now back.
523
00:28:20,357 --> 00:28:21,437
And back.
524
00:28:21,775 --> 00:28:25,145
Two this time, stay up, open the arm,
coupé sharp.
525
00:28:25,237 --> 00:28:27,907
Clara, foot! Good. Now, arm...
526
00:28:27,990 --> 00:28:31,330
And dégagé, 90. Stay.
Lift your chest, lift your chest.
527
00:28:31,410 --> 00:28:33,080
Yes. Also, this is passé.
528
00:28:33,162 --> 00:28:36,212
SOPHIA:
Pointe shoes are like a ballet slipper,
529
00:28:36,498 --> 00:28:37,878
but supports you more.
530
00:28:40,002 --> 00:28:42,342
And then you're on top of your toes.
531
00:28:43,714 --> 00:28:47,094
When you go to see a ballet,that's what they're all dancing on.
532
00:28:49,052 --> 00:28:53,602
Once you get older,that's a big milestone in ballet.
533
00:28:53,724 --> 00:28:55,434
One and a half, two, two and a half.
534
00:28:57,102 --> 00:28:59,022
FEMALE VOICE: Yeah, tendu front. Wow.
535
00:28:59,104 --> 00:29:01,484
BRENDA:
So, today is a big day for these dancers.
536
00:29:01,857 --> 00:29:05,317
This is their first day
when they're actually going to do
537
00:29:05,402 --> 00:29:08,822
the rite of passage, which is
get their first pair of pointe shoes.
538
00:29:09,156 --> 00:29:10,236
We're ready.
539
00:29:10,324 --> 00:29:13,044
SOPHIA:
At SAB, you have to be in level four.
540
00:29:13,327 --> 00:29:15,157
That's kind of whatwe all look forward to.
541
00:29:15,621 --> 00:29:17,121
KATRINA: This is the first time...
542
00:29:17,581 --> 00:29:20,251
I'm actually being in the room
during the fitting.
543
00:29:20,334 --> 00:29:22,884
The magic of being en pointeis the magic of being en pointe.
544
00:29:22,961 --> 00:29:24,341
You feel completely different.
545
00:29:24,421 --> 00:29:26,381
-FEMALE VOICE: How do you feel up there?
-I feel good.
546
00:29:26,798 --> 00:29:27,798
Yes!
547
00:29:27,925 --> 00:29:29,965
BRENDA: Okay, so I'm just looking to see
the bone structure,
548
00:29:30,052 --> 00:29:31,352
how straight your foot is.
549
00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:33,385
And you've never worn pointe shoes before?
550
00:29:33,472 --> 00:29:34,932
Big day, right? Okay.
551
00:29:35,015 --> 00:29:37,385
The shoe should fit really snug
like a sock.
552
00:29:37,476 --> 00:29:39,896
Yeah. 'Cause see
how easily you slid in there?
553
00:29:39,978 --> 00:29:42,518
So, I might want to try
the Chacott Veronese on her.
554
00:29:42,606 --> 00:29:44,936
-KATRINA: Very narrow, right?
-She's also...
555
00:29:45,025 --> 00:29:46,735
-BRENDA: She has a low profile.
-KATRINA: Oh, I see.
556
00:29:46,818 --> 00:29:48,948
BRENDA:
Little... Yeah, this is the narrowest,
557
00:29:49,029 --> 00:29:51,409
see it's just there's
a lot of room already.
558
00:29:51,490 --> 00:29:53,240
Not the right size yet.
559
00:29:53,909 --> 00:29:56,829
KATY: This is going to be
a brand new sensation for them,
560
00:29:56,912 --> 00:29:58,962
it's going to take them a while
to get used to.
561
00:29:59,248 --> 00:30:00,958
Your toes get very, very red.
562
00:30:01,291 --> 00:30:06,301
They will be in
a low to moderate level of pain,
563
00:30:06,380 --> 00:30:09,170
and that is part of the process.
(CHUCKLES)
564
00:30:09,299 --> 00:30:10,429
That is normal.
565
00:30:10,509 --> 00:30:16,059
Your elastics are going to be sewn
on either side of this back center rib.
566
00:30:16,139 --> 00:30:19,139
For beginners, it's sometimes
recommended to sew them
567
00:30:19,226 --> 00:30:21,596
on the outside,
just so there's less rubbing
568
00:30:21,687 --> 00:30:22,727
on their heel.
569
00:30:22,813 --> 00:30:25,113
-FEMALE VOICE: Is it here? Looks good?
-Yeah, feels good.
570
00:30:26,233 --> 00:30:27,903
-FEMALE VOICE:
-(CHUCKLES)
571
00:30:29,528 --> 00:30:31,238
BRENDA:
Okay. For now, let's just slide it on.
572
00:30:32,614 --> 00:30:34,874
Oh. See how much better that is?
573
00:30:35,117 --> 00:30:36,787
KATRINA: If you get down,
you can really see
574
00:30:36,868 --> 00:30:38,828
what's meant to be on your foot, right?
575
00:30:38,954 --> 00:30:41,044
It should be hugging your toes,
576
00:30:41,123 --> 00:30:43,713
but nothing like bent over
and overlapping.
577
00:30:44,001 --> 00:30:46,671
Now take a step up on both feet,
parallel.
578
00:30:47,170 --> 00:30:48,170
Yes.
579
00:30:48,755 --> 00:30:51,005
Really pretty, pretty, pretty.
580
00:30:51,133 --> 00:30:54,683
SOPHIA: When you're en pointe,it definitely makes you taller
581
00:30:54,845 --> 00:30:57,255
and it makes a prettier line.
582
00:30:57,889 --> 00:31:02,599
It's kind of the symbolthat you are now a ballerina.
583
00:31:07,733 --> 00:31:09,323
(MUSIC PLAYING)
584
00:31:12,112 --> 00:31:14,322
ELLA: This is the schedule.
Ms. Abergel last year
585
00:31:14,406 --> 00:31:16,616
did these little stretches
with us every day.
586
00:31:16,867 --> 00:31:19,117
And those have helped me
increase my flexibility.
587
00:31:19,202 --> 00:31:22,832
Friday, I say I have nothing
just because it's, like, my day to relax.
588
00:31:22,998 --> 00:31:26,878
I have TheraBands, doming,
which is a thing you do with your feet.
589
00:31:27,377 --> 00:31:31,047
So these are turnout discs,
I plié, and you want to try and hold it,
590
00:31:31,131 --> 00:31:32,591
that increases your muscles.
591
00:31:32,674 --> 00:31:34,804
When you're using your turnout,
you're using, I can't...
592
00:31:34,885 --> 00:31:38,005
I don't know the name of the muscle,
but you're using your muscles up here.
593
00:31:38,347 --> 00:31:40,677
And I mean, dancers call them
turnout muscles,
594
00:31:40,974 --> 00:31:43,774
but, um,
they're up at the top of your hips
595
00:31:44,144 --> 00:31:46,734
and you're rotating them like this.
596
00:31:47,064 --> 00:31:51,154
Yeah, I like these 'cause they're easy
to do, but they also have an impact.
597
00:31:52,277 --> 00:31:54,907
These are all things I've doneto help my flexibility.
598
00:31:55,530 --> 00:31:57,450
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
599
00:32:03,246 --> 00:32:05,666
ELLA: We only have, I think,four or five weeks of rehearsal
600
00:32:05,791 --> 00:32:08,211
before we have to put
The Nutcracker on stage.
601
00:32:08,627 --> 00:32:12,297
And so it's stressful in some ways,
but it's also really exciting
602
00:32:12,381 --> 00:32:14,091
cause, like, I love rehearsal.
603
00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:19,810
This is my third year. I'm very grateful
that I got to do Polis this year.
604
00:32:19,888 --> 00:32:22,518
ARCH: Go five, six, go seven...
605
00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:25,559
DENA: The Polichinellesrequires a lot of ballet training,
606
00:32:26,395 --> 00:32:29,765
because they need to know stepsand movements
607
00:32:29,856 --> 00:32:31,936
and everything we've discussed so far,
but much more.
608
00:32:32,776 --> 00:32:33,896
ARCH: Stay in line, girls.
609
00:32:35,529 --> 00:32:39,489
Polis, they're like little,
like, people I guess, they're like dolls
610
00:32:39,574 --> 00:32:41,994
that come out of Mother Ginger'sskirt and dance.
611
00:32:42,202 --> 00:32:44,202
(MUSIC PLAYING)
612
00:32:46,248 --> 00:32:49,128
ELLA: Some people say they're, like,in French it's like a doll.
613
00:32:50,710 --> 00:32:52,800
Croisé, girls. Croisé, Elizabeth.
614
00:32:53,463 --> 00:32:56,173
So, I think of them as these
porcelain, like, doll clown things.
615
00:32:56,258 --> 00:32:57,298
They're, like, weird.
616
00:32:57,551 --> 00:33:01,931
ARCH: And one, two, go, three, four.
617
00:33:02,013 --> 00:33:04,313
You see a front, dégagé front.
618
00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:07,099
DENA: We spend a lot of timerehearsing those Polichinelles,
619
00:33:07,185 --> 00:33:08,725
because they really need to be clean,
620
00:33:09,146 --> 00:33:11,566
and because it's showing off the school
621
00:33:11,690 --> 00:33:14,400
and what we teach at the school,
we want them to look really good.
622
00:33:14,484 --> 00:33:17,534
So the last one is step, tap...
623
00:33:17,612 --> 00:33:20,702
We want to see a pointed footin the front and the back,
624
00:33:22,117 --> 00:33:24,487
we want to seea glissade to fifth position,
625
00:33:24,578 --> 00:33:27,708
we want to seea tendu with a heel forward.
626
00:33:27,789 --> 00:33:31,419
You know, every movement, we want
to be showing off the training
627
00:33:31,501 --> 00:33:32,631
that we give them here.
628
00:33:32,711 --> 00:33:34,091
One, two, three, good!
629
00:33:34,171 --> 00:33:35,841
So if you say it to yourself
until you memorize it,
630
00:33:35,922 --> 00:33:38,552
-it will help.
-ARCH: Front, go back, go front.
631
00:33:38,633 --> 00:33:41,433
ELLA: I have a question,
last week and everything, like,
632
00:33:41,511 --> 00:33:43,561
you're looking twice
and then you keep your head
633
00:33:43,638 --> 00:33:44,718
-for, like, two times...
-ARCH: Okay.
634
00:33:44,806 --> 00:33:46,386
Great, we'll figure all that out,
635
00:33:46,475 --> 00:33:48,595
right now I really want to work
on the timing, okay?
636
00:33:48,685 --> 00:33:51,305
Once we learn like the jumps
and, like, these passés and all that,
637
00:33:51,396 --> 00:33:53,516
it started to get harder
in like the counting and the timing.
638
00:33:53,982 --> 00:33:56,692
ARCH: If you time those arms
with the legs, it really helps the jump.
639
00:33:57,152 --> 00:33:59,652
You work really hard,but it's also like a good...
640
00:33:59,988 --> 00:34:02,738
I don't know, I can't find the word,
it's a good feeling
641
00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:05,080
ARCH: Left, right, left, right.
642
00:34:05,327 --> 00:34:06,827
(MUSIC PLAYING)
643
00:34:10,207 --> 00:34:11,997
(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
644
00:34:17,339 --> 00:34:18,969
-(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
-(LAUGHTER)
645
00:34:19,299 --> 00:34:23,889
HENRY: Today is Halloween at SAB
and, I mean like, I don't know,
646
00:34:23,970 --> 00:34:25,220
everyone's got a great costume.
647
00:34:26,306 --> 00:34:29,176
A lot of the donors come
and watch the advanced students.
648
00:34:29,518 --> 00:34:32,768
And, uh, it's a treat for them,because they can see us all
649
00:34:32,854 --> 00:34:34,364
in different costumes.
650
00:34:34,898 --> 00:34:38,358
We all get to dress up
and everybody is so high energy,
651
00:34:38,443 --> 00:34:39,953
and the teachers dress up.
652
00:34:40,028 --> 00:34:41,198
MEAGAN: I'm a haunted house.
653
00:34:43,114 --> 00:34:44,374
ALLEN: I love Halloween because
654
00:34:44,449 --> 00:34:45,949
all of that personality comes out.
655
00:34:47,619 --> 00:34:50,329
There's, like, a lot of energy,but they're so serious,
656
00:34:50,413 --> 00:34:51,413
like all of them.
657
00:34:51,957 --> 00:34:54,577
And honestly this is not so differentfrom what it would be on stage.
658
00:34:54,668 --> 00:34:56,248
You're in a costume,you're playing a character,
659
00:34:56,336 --> 00:34:58,416
but you're still, like,performing in a certain aspect.
660
00:34:58,630 --> 00:35:01,290
RUBY: Halloween is always so fun,everyone goes all out.
661
00:35:01,391 --> 00:35:03,811
It's right before class and you're like.
"Oh, I still need to do all these things."
662
00:35:03,916 --> 00:35:06,756
And then you come in and you're like,
here's my costume, and then you dance.
663
00:35:06,860 --> 00:35:08,050
(MUSIC PLAYING)
664
00:35:08,162 --> 00:35:09,562
TAELA:
I feel like it takes like the weight
665
00:35:09,641 --> 00:35:11,561
off of the seriousness of class.
666
00:35:11,851 --> 00:35:13,601
It's like more free, I guess.
667
00:35:13,687 --> 00:35:16,817
So our headpieces are actually soup cups
from the cafeteria,
668
00:35:16,898 --> 00:35:20,148
and then we took a cake pop stick
and stuck it in the top. (LAUGHS)
669
00:35:20,569 --> 00:35:24,199
I'm Oatly. It's my favorite
oat milk brand.
670
00:35:24,281 --> 00:35:25,781
I am Mr. Hendrickson.
671
00:35:26,616 --> 00:35:28,486
For... Who's teaching this class.
672
00:35:28,827 --> 00:35:30,037
Let's go back to first.
673
00:35:31,079 --> 00:35:32,079
Back...
674
00:35:32,664 --> 00:35:35,214
HENRY: I'm considering like sittingnext to him in class.
675
00:35:35,709 --> 00:35:37,129
He probably won't let me do that, though.
676
00:35:39,254 --> 00:35:40,514
Oh, yes!
677
00:35:40,797 --> 00:35:42,417
(APPLAUDS)
678
00:35:47,887 --> 00:35:50,057
Oh, my God.
That is hilarious.
679
00:35:51,349 --> 00:35:54,229
-This is hilarious. (LAUGHS)
-Hendrickson... (LAUGHS)
680
00:35:55,395 --> 00:35:56,855
Oh my God, I love it.
681
00:35:58,607 --> 00:35:59,977
(LAUGHS)
682
00:36:00,108 --> 00:36:01,318
What do you want to do?
683
00:36:02,193 --> 00:36:03,703
Hard, soft? Go crazy?
684
00:36:04,279 --> 00:36:05,409
Go crazy, it's Halloween.
685
00:36:05,905 --> 00:36:07,775
(MUSIC PLAYING)
686
00:36:11,161 --> 00:36:14,291
It got very hot, it was very hot in there,
in the studio.
687
00:36:14,372 --> 00:36:15,712
Like, I was like sweating so much.
688
00:36:15,999 --> 00:36:17,959
(MUSIC PLAYING)
689
00:36:19,544 --> 00:36:21,504
MARK: The hardest thing in the classwas to turn.
690
00:36:22,339 --> 00:36:24,549
'Cause like when we're turning,
the hat would move
691
00:36:24,633 --> 00:36:27,263
and it would like cover my face,
I couldn't see where I was moving.
692
00:36:27,510 --> 00:36:28,850
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
693
00:36:29,054 --> 00:36:30,934
KEVIN: Happy Halloween,
everyone! Bye.
694
00:36:32,974 --> 00:36:34,564
-FEMALE VOICE: Thank you.
-You're welcome.
695
00:36:34,809 --> 00:36:36,059
RUBY: Wait, wait.
696
00:36:37,854 --> 00:36:38,904
I know!
697
00:36:39,606 --> 00:36:40,606
I know.
698
00:36:40,857 --> 00:36:43,567
-Oh my gosh. Wait, where is she?
-She's in the back, she's in the back.
699
00:36:44,736 --> 00:36:46,396
Babe, oh my gosh!
700
00:36:49,407 --> 00:36:51,487
(BOTH LAUGH)
701
00:36:51,868 --> 00:36:54,658
-Oh, my God.
-(CHUCKLES)
702
00:36:54,746 --> 00:36:56,536
-My baby.
-I'm so proud of you.
703
00:36:58,208 --> 00:37:00,418
-(LAUGHING)
-So happy for you.
704
00:37:00,502 --> 00:37:03,512
Today is my last day as an SAB student.
705
00:37:04,047 --> 00:37:05,547
Which is really crazy. (CHUCKLES)
706
00:37:05,757 --> 00:37:08,297
-I'm gonna tell my parents.
-GIRL: Yeah, your dad's downstairs.
707
00:37:08,551 --> 00:37:12,681
ZOE: Renee told me to comeinto Kay's office after second class
708
00:37:12,764 --> 00:37:16,434
and they offered me an apprenticeship
with New York City Ballet
709
00:37:16,518 --> 00:37:20,558
to start for Nutcracker season, tomorrow!
(CHUCKLES)
710
00:37:21,481 --> 00:37:22,731
ZOE:
711
00:37:23,274 --> 00:37:24,284
BO:
712
00:37:24,359 --> 00:37:25,689
ZOE:
713
00:37:26,778 --> 00:37:27,778
What?
714
00:37:30,115 --> 00:37:31,235
(BO CHUCKLES)
715
00:37:33,493 --> 00:37:34,743
Did I hear that right?
716
00:37:35,912 --> 00:37:38,792
(LAUGHS) Congratulations.
717
00:37:40,959 --> 00:37:43,629
Yay! Oh, my God.
718
00:37:43,712 --> 00:37:46,592
ZOE: I couldn't believe it,it's like all these years of hard work
719
00:37:46,673 --> 00:37:49,093
and you dream about this one thing,
720
00:37:49,175 --> 00:37:52,095
and then to finally hear itis just like crazy.
721
00:37:52,637 --> 00:37:53,757
(ZOE SOBBING)
722
00:37:55,098 --> 00:37:56,598
HEIDI: I'm so excited for you.
723
00:37:56,683 --> 00:37:57,933
I can't even... Wow.
724
00:37:58,101 --> 00:37:59,141
ZOE:
725
00:38:01,396 --> 00:38:03,686
-I'm so proud of you.
-ZOE: Oh, my gosh.
726
00:38:04,190 --> 00:38:05,530
BO: So amazing.
727
00:38:06,151 --> 00:38:07,821
-Dream come true.
-(ZOE CHUCKLES)
728
00:38:08,278 --> 00:38:10,698
-(BO LAUGHS)
-Oh, my gosh!
729
00:38:11,197 --> 00:38:13,527
-I'm so happy for her!
-Zoe?
730
00:38:14,033 --> 00:38:16,453
Once you've been in New York City Ballet,
even as an apprentice,
731
00:38:16,953 --> 00:38:18,543
it opens up a lot of doors.
732
00:38:18,955 --> 00:38:20,705
(MUSIC PLAYING)
733
00:38:21,958 --> 00:38:25,748
It is my dream to be able to prove
to myself that I deserve to be there.
734
00:38:31,176 --> 00:38:33,846
(MUSIC PLAYING)
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