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American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.
~ Sascha Radetsky
American
Ballerina
Ballet
Broadway
Building
Dust
Exposed
High
Like
Music
Old
Paint
Piano
Pipes
Rehearsal
Studios
Theatre
Toes
Wall
Wear
Where
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An ex-ABT ballerina, while staging a ballet for the company, once followed a dancer into the bathroom to deliver notes through the stall door. She was known to bark - literally, like a dog - during private rehearsals.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Ballerina
Ballet
Bark
Bathroom
Company
Dancer
Deliver
Dog
Door
Followed
Known
Like
Literally
Notes
Once
Private
Rehearsals
She
Stall
Through
While
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At 11, I went to Misha's school for two summers. So when I wasn't in that school, I was taking classes at David Howard or Robert Denver's studios - kind of legendary places - and there was one summer where Alexander Godunov sort of took me under his wing; the memory's a little murky, but I felt as if I was his project for those weeks.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Alexander
Classes
David
Denver
Felt
His
Kind
Legendary
Little
Me
Memory
Places
Project
Robert
School
Sort
Studios
Summer
Summers
Taking
Those
Took
Two
Weeks
Where
Wing
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At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Academy
Athletic
Ballet
Brigade
Brilliant
Class
Cooks
Could
Failed
Fiery
Flew
Hair
He
His
Level
Man
Moscow
Nor
Old
Old Man
Order
Rage
Reach
Short
Socks
Students
Studied
Stuttering
Teacher
Tiny
Tolerate
White
Wore
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Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Audience
Ballet
Small
Unfortunately
Very
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'Center Stage' reached people that, as live performers, we would have never had the opportunity to reach.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Center
Had
Live
Never
Opportunity
People
Performers
Reach
Reached
Stage
Would
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I hadn't really thought about doing any acting at all post-'Center Stage.'
~ Sascha Radetsky
About
Acting
Any
Doing
Really
Stage
Thought
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I think guys, because we share a history growing up of being stereotyped, because there are fewer of us in the dance world, that contributes early on to a bond among us. A lot of us share stories of being harassed or teased growing up - there's a certain deep camaraderie that's formed through that shared struggle.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Among
Because
Being
Bond
Camaraderie
Certain
Dance
Deep
Early
Fewer
Formed
Growing
Growing Up
Guys
History
I Think
Lot
Share
Shared
Stories
Struggle
Teased
Think
Through
Up
Us
World
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I think I tended toward the Russian training because my first teacher taught a version of Vaganova, and it was drilled into me that that was the best system, and also at the time there were a lot of great Russian stars.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Also
Because
Best
First
Great
I Think
Lot
Me
Russian
Stars
System
Taught
Teacher
Think
Time
Toward
Training
Version
Were
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If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Age
Art
Art Form
Beach
Bras
Could
Dancer
Decades
Even
Fade
Feet
Form
Gradually
Grounds
Knowledge
Left
Life
Like
Lost
Old
Over
Port
Signs
Someday
Stripes
Sweat
Time
Towel
Will
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I'm doing a little bit of acting, but I can't really say it's going to be a career or even that I'm really suited to it. It's a whole other craft you have to study and be passionate about.
~ Sascha Radetsky
About
Acting
Bit
Career
Craft
Doing
Even
Going
Little
Little Bit
Other
Passionate
Really
Say
Study
Suited
Whole
You
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It's an unfortunate reality of being a male dancer that it's not really looked upon... it's not appreciated.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Appreciated
Being
Dancer
Looked
Male
Reality
Really
Unfortunate
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Most dancers are less eccentric than driven. It starts young. When other kids are at the playground, we're in the studio, endlessly drilling jumps and adjusting our socks.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Adjusting
Dancers
Drilling
Driven
Eccentric
Endlessly
Jumps
Kids
Less
Most
Other
Other Kids
Our
Playground
Socks
Starts
Studio
Than
Young
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My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else - I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Accidents
Actually
Anything
Anything Else
Attrition
Back
Before
Choice
Couple
December
Decision
Due
Else
Flat
Had
Injuries
Just
Last
Made
More
More Than Anything
Neck
Retire
Than
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People come and go, and I've certainly had experiences with overbearing figures and conflicts here and there, but for the most part I've found the dance community to be really supportive and I've formed some lifelong bonds, like with Ethan.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Bonds
Certainly
Come
Come And Go
Community
Conflicts
Dance
Experiences
Figures
Formed
Found
Go
Had
Here
Lifelong
Like
Most
Part
People
Really
Some
Supportive
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Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Been
Cuba
Danced
Dancer
Extraordinary
Gladiator
Greece
Leaps
Lucky
Mind
Once
Paris
Particular
Performing
Places
Rehearsing
Some
Spectacles
Venue
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Sir Kenneth MacMillan's version of 'Romeo and Juliet' is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev's breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin.
~ Sascha Radetsky
Arts
Ballet
Breathtaking
Composition
Defense
Drawing
Favorite
Juliet
Kenneth
Kin
Loved
Martial
Martial Arts
Music
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Score
Sir
Student
Sword
Version
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Twyla's works are complex, and they really push you as an athlete and push you spiritually as well. Before doing a Twyla ballet, you have to get everything in order: You have to get a good night's sleep, you have to eat well, you have to be in great shape, and then you just go and leave it all out there.
~ Sascha Radetsky
All-Out
Athlete
Ballet
Before
Complex
Doing
Eat
Everything
Get
Go
Good
Great
Just
Leave
Night
Order
Out
Push
Really
Shape
Sleep
Spiritually
Then
Well
Works
You
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