Adrian Danchig-Waring : I was just always dancing and I started doing some Russian folk dance.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I mean I'd say it was at 13.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : There's also so much adrenaline pumped like you're working like your whole day builds to this climax, this performance, so it's like you can't go home
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Yeah. 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
Adrian Danchig-Waring : It's like you re-establish that fluency in the morning and then you speak it all day.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I guess it really depends on like what the role is --
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I don't believe that.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Also something interesting that Amanda touched on and that is like in a given performance, one of us might dance three separate roles in three separate ballets
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Yeah.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : There are ballet masters on staff who are each responsible for a given allotment of works.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I mean I think one of the most exciting things about New York City Ballet is that there's this legacy of Balanchine and Robbins sharing this company,
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I mean it's interesting.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : It really depends on the role.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I accept that, I accept what you're saying.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Yeah, so Dancers' Choice is this really interesting opportunity and challenge for us.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : They're unwinding.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Yeah, the most active one today is that we shot a documentary that will screen the night of this performance.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : They're in 15 hours left of a 40 hour -- Amanda Hankes: We're hoping it comes through by Sunday.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : It must be DSL.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Great incentives for people.
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
Adrian Danchig-Waring : They're amazing.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Or hearing.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Highly immersive is what I would call it.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Yeah.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I also think because it's like by the dancers for the dancers there's a really palpable energy that surrounds it, that surrounds the rehearsal process now that
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Yeah -- Meghan Kent: you wanna talk about that?
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I cut the stencils -- Meghan Kent: Adrian Danchig-Waring : and Mark, our company's designer and I worked on the Dancers' Choice logo which is the Apollo image.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I mean I think that's, in my mind they're mostly Balanchine works, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Agon, Apollo --
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Episodes.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Long, lean, exacting, voluminous, dynamic --
Adrian Danchig-Waring : It's true, I mean I think to bring ballet back towards the mainstream in any way is a boon to us.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : Can I say something?
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I think it's really interesting what you're saying about attending the ballet and that much of it stems from the fact that you were brought up doing that.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I mean in terms of marketing we see the ticket sales as they stand right now are about twice what they were at this point for the previous Dancers'
female #3: Adrian Danchig-Waring : In the Courts at Versailles --
Adrian Danchig-Waring : To a degree.
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
Adrian Danchig-Waring : I do think though that like whatever I know I personally do after dancing it will involve going back to school and sort of learning a new skill set
Adrian Danchig-Waring : No, thank you guys for your -- Amanda Hankes: Thank you.
Adrian Danchig-Waring : afternoon interest.
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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 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
Amanda Hankes: Serenade -- Adrian Danchig-Waring : Serenade -- Amanda Hankes: Serenade definitely.
Meghan Kent: bringing -- Adrian Danchig-Waring : maybe not of the masses right so I guess it was never a populist thing.
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