Amanda Hankes : I can start.
Amanda Hankes : It was about 13.
Amanda Hankes : I had grown up going to see New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater.
Amanda Hankes : A typical day in season is a very, very busy day.
Amanda Hankes : Which daily class sort of reminds you of, reminds your muscles of what the basic positions are and the steps, but then you've also got the ballets that the
Amanda Hankes : I don't have that much trouble marking.
Amanda Hankes : Sometimes if I see an -- Adrian Danchig-Waring: Amanda Hankes : opportunity I'll take it.
Amanda Hankes : It's a different process than trying to learn a ballet that's already been choreographed.
Amanda Hankes : I sort of disagree that in the corps there's no room for that.
Amanda Hankes : No it's not encouraged.
Amanda Hankes : Dancers' Emergency Fund was something that was set up to sort of help out dancers if they find themselves needing some financial assistance outside of our salary
Amanda Hankes : Thank you.
Amanda Hankes : We have 15 hours left -- Adrian Danchig-Waring: Fifteen hours left to upload yeah.
Amanda Hankes : they're in the middle of it.
Amanda Hankes : I had sat on a committee for the first Dancers' Choice so I sort of knew what was going to get poo-pooed and also there is an enormous, active rep
Amanda Hankes : Yeah.
Amanda Hankes : They're amazing ballets and the music's amazing and for us it's like home but if you're not used to seeing neoclassical --
Amanda Hankes : or hearing neo-classical Stravinsky ballets, seven in a row would be really hard on the audience.
Amanda Hankes : Highly.
Amanda Hankes : There were definitely some people that I had been dying to see in some roles over the years so it became sort of an opportunity to do that.
Amanda Hankes : Well I think that they'll see a very cohesive evening with a really good program and hopefully it is a program that will appeal to a younger audience
Amanda Hankes : We had a lot of people help us dye red pointe shoes because we had hundreds of pairs and that's everybody's old, used pointe shoes that we started collecting
Amanda Hankes : You do it on your hour off or if you only have the last ballet you run up to the spray room with a can of spray paint, so we did it over the course of two or three
Amanda Hankes : Meghan Kent: do you have any questions for our artists while they're here?
Amanda Hankes : Serenade -- Adrian Danchig-Waring: Serenade -- Amanda Hankes : Serenade definitely.
Amanda Hankes : We're very lucky to be in a company where the bulk of what we do is really, really spectacular.
Amanda Hankes : I think our spring season last year sold very, our winter season, it was our winter season, sold very, very well.
Amanda Hankes : But if it brings people in and gets them interested then I think it's really good.
Amanda Hankes : Facebook and Twitter have been huge places for us to sort of get out and be seen.
Amanda Hankes : I think the art form has changed, I think as the art form has evolved the audience has evolved a little bit.
Amanda Hankes : Look forward to a nap.
After working for Hankey, he moved to Bletchley Park where, of course, he's depicted in the "Imitation Game." He's working in hut three, which is composed
He has Lord Hankey and Graham Greene as his referees-- impressive.
Meghan Kent and Amanda Hankes : Adrian Danchig-Waring: I think there's room for growth in that way, I don't necessarily think it's encouraged.
Meghan Kent and Amanda Hankes : Adrian Danchig-Waring: And so we decided, I mean for a number of reasons we decided
Meghan Kent: Amanda Hankes : And so then this performance became attached to it and turned out to be very successful as far as raising money for that fund.
Meghan Kent and Amanda Hankes : Adrian Danchig-Waring: And now they are backpacking in Thailand with a laptop under their arm trying to find some way to upload this film that will take less than 40 hours
Adrian Danchig-Waring: Amanda Hankes : Yeah, it's a very anxiety inducing question it's something we all deal with, but because of the threat of injury it's not like you can, I mean you should plan
And it was while working for Lord Hankey that he picked up details of the Tube Alloys project, which was the initial decision to develop nuclear weapons
we said that was unacceptable and hanked it too so I I don't uh you know I know they can't lend out every dollar that
Amanda Hankes : Frantic.
Amanda Hankes : So there was a lot of misinformation out there, but all press is good press to some degree .
gesture and being human having made that Noble gesture began to hanker for
My name is John Hanke .
shows new slide titled "Google Earth" with new bulleted points listed and images of John Hanke ] because Google links particularly to the military in some areas are pretty fascinating
Amanda Hankes : Adrian Danchig-Waring: But I think that the company class like taking ballet classes every morning is this really unique element of the ballet dancer's life 'cause everyday
Amanda Hankes : It's completely .
Adrian Danchig-Waring: They're in 15 hours left of a 40 hour -- Amanda Hankes : We're hoping it comes through by Sunday.
Meghan Kent: Adrian Danchig-Waring: And then we sort of wheedled it down -- Amanda Hankes : You weed it down by picking like who you would envision casting in these
And that is John Hanke with Google Earth and Maps in the photo.