Saturday, May 2

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Dancers of the Czech National Ballet cope with life under lockdown.

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With the gradual easing of the measures, the Czech National Ballet company has switched to a new training system in which the dancers are divided into six groups. For one hour every day, they train in groups of 12 or 13, and this is broadcast online to other dancers who practice at home.

 

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At home with Yuhui Choe and Nehemiah Kish.

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While the Korean ballerina pirouettes and performs arabesques, he steadfastly concentrates on doing his thing online… when she’s leaning on his desk mid-standing split.

 

 

 

 

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An interview with James Sofranko.

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FOX 17 spoke to James Sofranko, artisitic director for Grand Rapids Ballet, to learn more about their new virtual program.

 

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 Mikhail Baryshnikov appears as Benedict XVI in Latvia.

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He means this literally. These days, what Hermanis mostly writes are not plays, strictly speaking, but assemblages of preexisting texts—a method sometimes called “verbatim theater.” Brodsky/Baryshnikov was a bricolage of Brodsky poems. The White Helicopter uses roughly the same method. From what Hermanis told me, 95 percent of the sentences spoken by Baryshnikov in the play were said by the real Benedict during his career in the Vatican. (The rest are ligatures, glue.)