What do you need to do subsequent with the corporate and what do you need to do for your self?
I need to sit in my winery. To drink good wine! And benefit from the incredible view and never be nervous about are the dancers coming tomorrow or not? And are they wholesome or not? [Laughs] However I actually take pleasure in what I’m doing. Even thought it’s exhausting. Generally I’m drained.
I had a really nice Russian trainer, Raisa Struchkova — like 23 years we had been collectively within the Bolshoi. Then within the 16 years with A.B.T., it was Irina Kolpakova. I’m so grateful to those academics in my life. And I believe will probably be very unhappy if I actually take pleasure in life and do nothing, to not give this to a younger technology.
So you retain going.
Day-after-day I’m saying, God, thanks, you gave me these type of folks and I really feel like they’re actually serving to me now. What they mentioned to me — generally I’ve this in my ear, even the phrases that they mentioned to me, how they corrected me, what they taught me. The ballet world is like this. You can not learn books. In fact, it helps. You watch movies. It additionally helps. However nothing, nothing does the identical job.
You’ll want to have the individual subsequent to you, to see you, right you, As a result of we’re human, we’re completely different. So that is our job. And my trainer informed me at all times: “Hear now, you’ll use this later when you can be instructing.”
How did you react to that?
I used to be younger. I mentioned, my God, I need to dance. What do you imply, I will likely be instructing? And now, once I’m instructing, I simply say: “Bear in mind what I say to you. Bear in mind as a result of when in the future you’ll educate, you’ll do the identical factor like I do now.” That is technology by technology — it goes toes by toes, hand by hand. I believe there is no such thing as a different job like that.
Do you dance in any respect, or do you may have a motion apply?
I’m unhealthy now. [Laughs] You realize, daily I say, OK, I must go somewhat to apply — for myself — after which one thing comes up. And I’m so unhealthy. And now once I need to present “you see, you are able to do it leaping extra,” however that is very harmful now as a result of I put weight on additionally. I’m not that skinny. I simply say it like this: I’m not ballerina now. I’m a human now. Regular.
