1 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: Six seven, eight one two three five six seven eight 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: one two three four and sup. 3 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 2: Now I'm in a dance studio in Tallahassee, Florida. It's 4 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 2: summer twenty twenty two. In front of me are about 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,800 Speaker 2: a dozen dancers. They're in a last minute evening rehearsal. 6 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 2: It wasn't originally on the schedule, but there's a show 7 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 2: tomorrow and they have a lot to do before then. 8 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 2: For My Heart podcasts and Rococo Punch. This is the 9 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 2: turning room of mirrors America lants today a day in 10 00:00:50,600 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 2: the life of a dancer. It's twenty seven hours to curtain, okay, because. 11 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: It is better for the stage to be this way. 12 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: So you guys, this is pretty good, But I actually 13 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 1: need to go back to the big lift at the top. 14 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: You guys need to be a wall. It's free, backs 15 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: next to each other. 16 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,320 Speaker 2: Dance Theater of Harlem is a touring company. This means 17 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 2: even though they're based in New York, they're on the 18 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,479 Speaker 2: road for months at a time. I met them here 19 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 2: in Tallahassee. This is not a memorable to our step. 20 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: Nothing out of the ordinary happens. In a few months. 21 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 2: They may have forgotten all of this. That doesn't make 22 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 2: it any less grueling. The company split up this week. 23 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: Half went to Houston on tour and half came here 24 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: to Tallahassee. 25 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 1: That's it five six seven eight. They shift to perfect 26 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: six five six. 27 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,400 Speaker 2: They scheduled a last minute evening rehearsal the night before 28 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 2: the show because with all of these dancers missing, there 29 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 2: are a lot of holes to fill on stage. A 30 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,160 Speaker 2: bunch of dancers need to learn new material fast. 31 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 3: See, he's going to go when David went before. 32 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: Kennon's going to go when Dylan went before. 33 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 2: Okay, The artistic director of Virginia Johnson leads rehearsal. She 34 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 2: stands at the front of the studio, her back to 35 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:13,640 Speaker 2: the mirror. 36 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 4: There's going to be a space. It's still going to 37 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 4: be a space. 38 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:19,360 Speaker 2: Right now, they're reviewing the grand finale of the show. 39 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 2: Dancers entered with tricks and fancy moves, one after the other. 40 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 2: A dancer named David has been promoted to a principal role, 41 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:28,920 Speaker 2: so now his spot is empty. 42 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,959 Speaker 1: So we need somebody to do double tour one. Micah Okay. 43 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:39,320 Speaker 2: Micah Bullard covers his eyes bashfully when he's handed the 44 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,400 Speaker 2: new part. Micah's twenty four years old and one of 45 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 2: the newer company members. It's a second season with the 46 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: dance leader of Harlem. 47 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 3: I remember walking into the dth building and it really 48 00:02:56,639 --> 00:03:00,000 Speaker 3: felt like I was in some fantasy book or something, 49 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:04,839 Speaker 3: just seeing all this melanin in ballet costumes. I had 50 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 3: literally never seen before. I've never seen this many black 51 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 3: people doing ballet. Ever, it felt like the Chronicles of Narnia. 52 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 3: It felt like walking through the wardrobe and seeing like 53 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 3: this magical land that existed this entire time. It was 54 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 3: the first time I didn't feel like the black one 55 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 3: or the black guy. I was just Micah and I 56 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:29,920 Speaker 3: was an individual. 57 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: I felt like those you guys coming in was good. 58 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,680 Speaker 5: So it was really just this wing need to do again. 59 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Micah is in this elite ballet company, but 60 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 2: there have been times when he struggled with his confidence 61 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: in classical ballet. A couple of times in the past 62 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,240 Speaker 2: teachers told him to consider contemporary dance instead of ballet. 63 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 3: There was a point before all of this happened where 64 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: I just felt like I was really free in my movement. 65 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 3: I always used to answer for me, and then you know, 66 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 3: after my compts was hit all I would think about 67 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,960 Speaker 3: was my lack of turnout and all the skills I 68 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 3: wasn't able to do. So I would start hiding in 69 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 3: the back. I would start not doing certain combinations. If 70 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 3: I knew that it wasn't going to go well, I 71 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 3: would start second guessing myself. And I was so scared 72 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 3: that someone was going to find out that I wasn't 73 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 3: strong enough to be where I was. 74 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 6: Just turned off. 75 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 5: In rehearsal. 76 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 2: Today, Mica wears gray joggers and the teeth, but his 77 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 2: tall body, elongated posture, and graceful limbs make him look 78 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: regal even when he leans in the bar watching. 79 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 5: He's practicing multiple new parts for this show. 80 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 3: One is a lead role, making sure that all the 81 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 3: lifts and promenades and everything are right. That's all nerve working. 82 00:05:02,160 --> 00:05:04,239 Speaker 3: But I don't know. I think it will go well. 83 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 3: I just have to rehearse it. 84 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:10,719 Speaker 1: You were turning your shoulders on that first thing. Should 85 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,159 Speaker 1: everybody be turning their shoulders. 86 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 2: Another person adapting to last minute changes is Crystal Serrano. 87 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 2: Crystal has a duet in the show. She's danced to 88 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:22,920 Speaker 2: this Potada for six years, but her normal partner isn't here, 89 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,320 Speaker 2: so someone else has to learn the parts. 90 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,680 Speaker 7: Well, this is my sixth partner. 91 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 2: The guy who dances it with her these days isn't 92 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 2: here in Tallahassee. He's in the group that went to Houston. 93 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 2: So now Quadio Davis has. 94 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 5: To learn it. 95 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 8: So I have to more person. 96 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 2: The Quadio watched a video of the dance to teach 97 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 2: himself the steps. Tonight's their first real rehearsal and they 98 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 2: have to perform. 99 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 5: It tomorrow six. 100 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 9: Six seven. 101 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 2: Crystal and Quadio run the Potada straight through. It's from 102 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,520 Speaker 2: the first of three ballets in the show. This one's 103 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 2: called Balamook. 104 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,960 Speaker 7: So this whole pot we're like slingshotting one another. We're 105 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 7: doing a push pull effect, so counteracting each other, but 106 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 7: somehow flinging each other back into one another, kind of 107 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 7: like tango. And it's really playful and sassy, and you 108 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 7: get really close and uncomfortable. 109 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 2: Miss Potado has a lot of spinning. Being this close 110 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,279 Speaker 2: to the dancers, I realize how acrobatic it is. It's 111 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 2: different than watching from the audience. I can feel the 112 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,880 Speaker 2: floor bounce and rumble as they move right away. I'm 113 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 2: almost hit by Crystal's leg when Quadio swings her around. 114 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:45,919 Speaker 5: Him in a circle. Crystal loves this stuff. 115 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 7: When I was fifteen, I had a director call me 116 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 7: the Daredevil because I would just fling myself at the 117 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 7: guy and they're like. 118 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 10: Be careful. 119 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 7: Some of them don't know, and I'm like, well they're 120 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,839 Speaker 7: gonna learn. I love being lifted. I just absolutely love prindering. 121 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 7: There's this trust that you build with a person. It's 122 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 7: my favorite thing to do. 123 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,799 Speaker 5: Of course, she knows it can be dangerous. 124 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 7: Especially with this pop because there's so much thrown around. 125 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,040 Speaker 7: One wrong move or like too much force, or like 126 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 7: him missing my arms and I'm already jumping into his arms, 127 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:20,119 Speaker 7: it could go really wrong. 128 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 2: Crystal's actually dancing on two sprains right now. She got 129 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 2: them from partnering. The first time they run the dance, 130 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 2: Crystal can hear they're not with the music. Quadio's rushing 131 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 2: because I have done it before. 132 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,240 Speaker 7: I know the musical cues, but as a male dancer, 133 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 7: they usually lead you. I had to kind of like 134 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 7: look at him or tell him whisper, like slow down 135 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 7: or stretch this out. 136 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 10: Things like that. 137 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 2: He has a lot to remember in this first run, 138 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 2: and Quadio, who's a big guy, is using a lot 139 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 2: of force. 140 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,880 Speaker 7: Have you ever been in the water and you kind 141 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 7: of have water up your nose? The first one, I 142 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:00,320 Speaker 7: feel like he spun me so fast. I felt like 143 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 7: it was underwater. Air went on my nose. I was like, 144 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 7: oh my god. 145 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 2: Because he's so powerful, Crystal can feel him, think, can 146 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 2: tell he's thinking hard to get it right. 147 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 7: I tried to connect with him through his eyes so 148 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,160 Speaker 7: he knows that I'm here. That's my favorite thing about 149 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 7: doing a PAP because if you connect with that person, 150 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 7: you kind of calm them down. On both ends. 151 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a themeter that you're missing 152 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: in the beginning. So one two three four one two 153 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 1: three before you have the bitch kick on this, it's 154 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: a little bit too late that you were doing that. 155 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 2: After that first run through, Artistic director of Virginia Johnson 156 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 2: walks them through the trouble spots attitude. 157 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 10: Yeah, did I look here? 158 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 8: So that's a moment. 159 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I took a way. It just was nervous. 160 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, from the very beginning, just for a little bit. 161 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,760 Speaker 1: When you do this and you lean on him, then 162 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: you have to you have to counterbalance each other's weight. 163 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:57,679 Speaker 1: So that's it's going to work really well with the 164 00:08:57,720 --> 00:08:59,120 Speaker 1: two of you, but it's not happening yet. 165 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,880 Speaker 2: As the three of them talk, they use their bodies 166 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 2: to show what they mean. Crystal and Quadio seamlessly step 167 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,920 Speaker 2: into complicated lifts together. 168 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 5: Let my arms stretch. 169 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 7: Yeah, like that, and then here, give me a second, 170 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 7: and then yeah, this was really good. Why I started 171 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 7: dancing when I was five, I didn't think that ballet 172 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,840 Speaker 7: was real. I thought that it was something like being 173 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 7: a superhero or a unicorn in something magical. Do you 174 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 7: know something that you hear about but it's not attainable? 175 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:44,640 Speaker 7: And I think of the music box type of ballerina, 176 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 7: this beautiful image of a female dancer in like a 177 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 7: tu tuo and she's just propped up on this pedestal. 178 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 7: It's always about a little girl in a fantasy, that 179 00:09:59,360 --> 00:09:59,839 Speaker 7: image of. 180 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 10: How does real life as a dancer compared to this 181 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:12,880 Speaker 10: fairy tale, whimsical, imagined creature that you didn't even think 182 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 10: was real. 183 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 7: There's so much hardship. But then honestly, when you're on 184 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,960 Speaker 7: that stage, you feel that part when the curtain rises 185 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,480 Speaker 7: and you're in this crown, in this beautiful sparkling tutoo, 186 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:32,840 Speaker 7: you feel like that mystical beauty that you've always seen 187 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 7: but didn't think it was real. But you are that 188 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 7: part in your head, you know, and so it becomes real. Yeah, 189 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 7: it is due. 190 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: Are there any questions? Are there any questions? 191 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 5: After a few hours, it's time to wrap up for 192 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:51,640 Speaker 5: the night. 193 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:53,199 Speaker 1: Thank you, dancers. 194 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 4: Rest well. 195 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 2: The dancer has been in a few more steps of 196 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 2: practice on their own, get dressed, check their phones, and 197 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 2: make their way to the bus back to the hotel. 198 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 2: Twenty four hours to go. So we are here at 199 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:29,400 Speaker 2: the theater today. It's the tech rehearsal and they're going 200 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 2: to run everything with the lights and the music on stage. 201 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 2: See how the spacing is spacing is different on the stage, 202 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 2: and make sure everyone. 203 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 5: Knows all the steps. And then tonight after rehearsal is the. 204 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 1: Show two three, four, six seven. 205 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,319 Speaker 2: The artistic director, Virginia Johnson leads a tech rehearsal on 206 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 2: stage seven and a half hours to curse sixty seven. 207 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 1: Was that the same area? Yes? 208 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:04,440 Speaker 5: Good, Okay, you've got. 209 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 10: About ten minutes. 210 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:05,600 Speaker 5: Okay, thank you. 211 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,440 Speaker 2: The dancers are the ones on stage, but there's a 212 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 2: whole team of people to make this show happen. Stage managers, 213 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,839 Speaker 2: tech and lighting crew, to start. Downstairs is a maze 214 00:12:17,880 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 2: of hallways. Someone from the company has taped up laminated 215 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:24,200 Speaker 2: colored arrows all over the place to tell you where 216 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 2: to go. A green arrow for the green room, yellow 217 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 2: arrow for the stage, an arrow for the artistic director's room, 218 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: for catering, for physical therapy. There's also a room down 219 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 2: here with a rolling hangar cart full of costumes. Steam 220 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 2: billows out. One person steams costumes while another sows a skirt. 221 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 11: YEP, that's all I do. 222 00:12:54,440 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 2: Katie Freeman, the wardrobe supervisor, sits the sewing machine like 223 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 2: she lives in front of it. She's been touring with 224 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:02,199 Speaker 2: the company for years. 225 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 11: Okay, make sure everything's steamed and repaired. They change on stage, 226 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 11: manage their shoes. I make shoe paint that matches everyone's 227 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 11: skin tone. 228 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,320 Speaker 2: She remixes the paint as their colors change with the 229 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,599 Speaker 2: seasons or today. Because some of the dancers spent a 230 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,959 Speaker 2: lot of time in the Florida sun at the hotel, 231 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 2: pool tech rehearsal lasts hours and by the end I 232 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 2: am exhausted just from standing around. I can't imagine how 233 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 2: the dancers feel. They break it three for food, four 234 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:41,720 Speaker 2: and a half hours to curtain, there's a catered buffet. 235 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 2: They grab stuffed roasted red peppers on paper plates and 236 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:47,640 Speaker 2: PLoP down in groups at plastic tables. 237 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 4: They're patching us at the very end of tour. So 238 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 4: we were a little more lively a month ago. 239 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 2: Delaney Washington smiles even when she complains she's one of 240 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 2: the youngest dancers in the company. 241 00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 4: I'm the baby sothing like to make fun of me. 242 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 5: She takes some celebracs for her herniated. 243 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 4: Disks, two of them in my lower back. 244 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:10,200 Speaker 5: So what does that mean for you? 245 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 4: My toes just ache. My heels are all red from 246 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 4: the point she's digging into them. My arches are cramping. 247 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 4: My keelies, yeah, my caps are really tight. My body 248 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,920 Speaker 4: needs a break. I don't even know, like I cannot 249 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 4: put on a point too, but I have to in 250 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:29,440 Speaker 4: a few hours. 251 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 5: Because everyone hurts. A lot of them have injuries of 252 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:33,640 Speaker 5: one kind or another. 253 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,520 Speaker 2: They're only halfway through this tour, but there's something they're 254 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 2: all looking forward to. 255 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,680 Speaker 4: We get to go home tomorrow, the first week we'll 256 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 4: have in New York since April. 257 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, two months. 258 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:50,920 Speaker 6: We've been going back to New York for like sixty 259 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 6: hours though, because. 260 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:59,360 Speaker 4: It's just enough time to do laundry and settle down, 261 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,040 Speaker 4: and then you have leave again and repack. 262 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 2: The dancers walk back to the hotel and the muggy 263 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 2: Florida heat. They have an hour there to kill a 264 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 2: lot of twenty minute power naps. They return to the 265 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 2: theater and sweats on stage. They stretch quietly at portable bars. 266 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 7: All right, jensey, let's see again with our plas. 267 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: What you need for pleas to Jimmy's ground forward back 268 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: side side. 269 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 5: Then they warm up again with another ballet class. 270 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 10: We'll just do. 271 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 7: One side and. 272 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 5: Balance. 273 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 2: As always, they start with slow PLA's big knee bends, 274 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,800 Speaker 2: deep stretches. They glide their arms through basic positions. It 275 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 2: feels meditative this exercise. The slow pliers are something they 276 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 2: do twice a day, always. At the beginning of class. 277 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:01,280 Speaker 2: One person is skipping warm ups though. That's Ingrid Silva 278 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 2: is downstairs in the women's dressing room. 279 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 10: It's not every day you see someone in costume changing 280 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 10: a diver. 281 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 8: Not every day at all, but that has been part 282 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 8: of my routine now for what's six months? 283 00:16:14,480 --> 00:16:17,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, healthy m M. 284 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 5: Her daughter Laura is a year and a half old. 285 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 8: Now we have to put the shorts. 286 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:30,119 Speaker 3: Lumble. 287 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 2: Ingrid danced during her pregnancy and after Laura was born, 288 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 2: she warmed up at the bar with Laura strapped to 289 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:37,520 Speaker 2: her chest. 290 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 10: She literally danced with you the whole class. 291 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 8: Yes, like from inside my bailey to the outside of it. 292 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 8: And it's kind of cool. And I think that's why 293 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 8: she so connected you dance and so connected you BALI, 294 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 8: cause she's been doing it for a long time now. 295 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 2: Laura tours with Ingrid. The entire company helps watch her. 296 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,120 Speaker 8: I mean I was nervous on going on the stage 297 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 8: because all I could think about was her, Like, is 298 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 8: she okay? She happy? 299 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 5: She eating? 300 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 8: Like, is anybody watching her? 301 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:13,280 Speaker 5: What if she falls in? 302 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,919 Speaker 8: Things like that? But I feel like now it's more. 303 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,160 Speaker 5: A's even with a baby in toe. 304 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 2: In the past two days on tour with her, I've 305 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 2: never seen Ingrid anything but calm. She has a sense 306 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 2: of peace about her. 307 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 8: Yes. Yes, Now we're gonna put some makeup on, right, 308 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 8: Santa vite, Santa okay, help mommy key. 309 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,920 Speaker 2: Ingrid puts on eyeshadow, false eyelashes, a bright red lip. 310 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,600 Speaker 2: Laura sits on the table between her mother and the mirror. 311 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,119 Speaker 2: She holds makeup brushes and tiny fists and sweeps them 312 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:59,280 Speaker 2: across her face, mimicking her mom, happy baby. 313 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 8: If she'll become a ballerina, we don't know. 314 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 5: Oh my god, I feel I've swollen. 315 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,000 Speaker 2: The other dancers finish the on stage warm up and 316 00:18:10,119 --> 00:18:11,440 Speaker 2: pile into the dressing room. 317 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 4: She ques. 318 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: For music. I was gonna say. 319 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 7: Nineties or. 320 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,600 Speaker 2: Nineties. Forty five minutes to curtain. The room is busy, 321 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,119 Speaker 2: but calm sure, they're getting ready for her performance. But 322 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 2: that's routine. They do this every night. They sit at 323 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 2: the dressing mirrors. Some are topless or naked. They take 324 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,159 Speaker 2: turns playing with Laura. The four Crystal puts on the 325 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 2: costume she'll wear for the PoTA Doo with Cuadio. She 326 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 2: sits on top of the dressing table. She leans her 327 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 2: face towards the mirror. She starts the transformation into that 328 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 2: music box ballerina she pictured as a kid. 329 00:18:55,359 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 5: I just like to be really close so I can 330 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 5: see every detail. 331 00:18:58,080 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 10: What are you doing right now? 332 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 7: I'm doing my ash, Yeah, making sure that I contour 333 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 7: and make my eyes look bigger than they are with 334 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:13,959 Speaker 7: bright colors and shapes and shading. 335 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 12: Back back back back back. 336 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:26,280 Speaker 2: And truition return half hour, half hour, thirty minutes to go. 337 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 2: Wardrobe supervisor Katie checks on everyone every day. 338 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:31,200 Speaker 11: Siffer kisses me off. 339 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 2: Her apron holds needles, threads, scissors, bobby pins, sharpies, and advil. 340 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,760 Speaker 11: I have to sew some people into costumes. Yeah, that's 341 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,720 Speaker 11: miss your earrings. I gotta put some butt glue on 342 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:44,280 Speaker 11: the cheeks. 343 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:47,400 Speaker 10: Keep everything in butt glue but blue. 344 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,719 Speaker 11: It's just awesome body adhesive that like keeps everything in place. 345 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: Wow. 346 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,440 Speaker 5: At eight minutes to curtain, some people still aren't in costume. 347 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:04,840 Speaker 2: D I head to the stage. 348 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,760 Speaker 5: There's a fog machine that they've started going, so. 349 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 9: It's the stage is starting to get a little hazy, 350 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:13,639 Speaker 9: and you can see the light from the lights above 351 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:18,000 Speaker 9: sort of streaming down in stripes, in like rays through 352 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:22,360 Speaker 9: the haze, and it smells like Halloween fog machines. 353 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 2: It's very otherworldly. I walk on to the stage. The 354 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 2: audience doesn't know that behind the red velvet curtain, dancers 355 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 2: are filtering in. They stretch and chat, some sit on 356 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:36,720 Speaker 2: the floor. 357 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:39,360 Speaker 10: Haities. 358 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 2: Here the wardrobe person cutting some threads off of MICA's costume. 359 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:46,680 Speaker 10: They're going to do their curtain speech. 360 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 7: Now and then we'll get rolling. 361 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: Yes, okay, knock them dead. 362 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 2: Virginia reminds the dancers of the mood of the opening scene. 363 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 1: You remember, you're on a ship in the middle of 364 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: the ocean. Your future depends on your happiness. Make it happen. 365 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 1: Make it happen, and point your feet at the same top. 366 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 3: It forgets of winter bees. 367 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 5: So salta taka one two street. 368 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:24,440 Speaker 2: Four, Oh together, okay, marred, Marred, Virginia says it means 369 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 2: shit in French dance, or speak for good luck. In 370 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,920 Speaker 2: the final moments before the curtain opens, they stand in 371 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 2: the center cluster that starts the piece. One of them bounces, 372 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,160 Speaker 2: remembering steps. She shakes her head to test the pins 373 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 2: in her hair. One of them makes the sign of 374 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 2: the cross Ingrid bends her knees slowly in place. Delaney 375 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 2: and Micah say something and laugh. Quaudio rubs his hands together. 376 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 2: Crystal stands completely still. One by one they settle into position, 377 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 2: face forward, arms over your chest, feet together, head down. 378 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 2: The stage lights go down, the curtain lifts. 379 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 5: What happens next is hard to describe. 380 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 2: I've heard this music many times by now, I've seen 381 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,640 Speaker 2: them practice these steps. This exact moment, but this time 382 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 2: is different. They move in and out of lights that 383 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 2: filter through fog and change color over time. The dancers 384 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 2: cast long shadows. Their costumes are red, orange, bright, yellow, 385 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 2: and green. Their movements are silky fluid in a way 386 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 2: I can hardly believe in the blink of an eye 387 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,440 Speaker 2: they might shift from this chaos of each doing their 388 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:52,199 Speaker 2: own steps to moving perfectly in unison, then back into chaos. 389 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:56,600 Speaker 2: They spin in and out of formations. The fact that 390 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 2: this all happens without words makes it feel like as 391 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 2: it's beautiful. The piece rubs up as it goes, and 392 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 2: the lifts and turns become more acrobatic. Quadio swings Crystal 393 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 2: around him, and they're potted to like they practiced throughout 394 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,280 Speaker 2: the evening. Dancers come on and off stage, make their 395 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 2: way to the basement to change for the next number 396 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:20,200 Speaker 2: or rest. 397 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 5: It's organized chaos. 398 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 13: I hit Crystal by accident in the face with my 399 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 13: arm and I said, oh shit. 400 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 2: Live theater, Mike's disappointed. After the first piece, I. 401 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,560 Speaker 3: Messed up in the last section. I just started getting 402 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 3: like doing my old part in so at one point 403 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 3: I was facing the wrong direction. But I don't think 404 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 3: it was too noticeable. But I'm a huge perfectionist, so 405 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,040 Speaker 3: I was like, dang it the whole time. Other parts 406 00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 3: actually went the best. It's gone. But all I'm going 407 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 3: to think about now is you messed up that one part. 408 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 2: Then it's time to change for the next number. But 409 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:16,200 Speaker 2: there's a problem. A costume is missing and Delaney has 410 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 2: nothing to wear naked, though they need Katie wardrobe Queen. 411 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,679 Speaker 2: Delaney wraps a towel around herself and runs to the 412 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 2: wardrobe room. Soon Katie's steaming a new leotard for her. 413 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,440 Speaker 2: No longer naked, Delaney now pieces backstage before the second piece, 414 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 2: shaking out her limbs. 415 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:37,960 Speaker 11: This makes me a little nervous. 416 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 4: Last week was my first time doing this piece, so 417 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:48,400 Speaker 4: thank you, Alex. So I still have those like it's 418 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 4: still a little new jenerous. 419 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 2: But she puts those aside for the time of the 420 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,560 Speaker 2: final piece. The dancers are tired, but I feel the 421 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 2: energy rise, like they're loosening up. 422 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:00,600 Speaker 5: One more to go do. 423 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 11: My house, to have stand by house, out stand by warmers, 424 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 11: outstand by, main curtain, out stand by. 425 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:05,880 Speaker 5: Micah is excited. 426 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 2: The final piece is a high energy dance that dance 427 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,800 Speaker 2: Theater of Harlem performs constantly. 428 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,400 Speaker 3: It's the crowd favorite, people go crazy. 429 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 2: For it, and Micah knows his friend David Wright has 430 00:25:18,280 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 2: his big role in this one. 431 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 3: Tonight the principal part for the first. 432 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 5: Time, David's first principal role. 433 00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 6: And I had one rehearsal Friday and then one rehearsal yesterday. 434 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:30,840 Speaker 3: Warmers out and lights one go. 435 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 2: The dancers rev up and in the wings they get goofy, 436 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:37,959 Speaker 2: hype each other up, motion to each other from across 437 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,320 Speaker 2: the stage. 438 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 10: Main curtain, out go, soundtrack one and light's one point 439 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:43,919 Speaker 10: five go. 440 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 2: This last piece is called Return, choreographed by Robert Garland, probably. 441 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 3: My favorite piece in the rep. It's to James Brown 442 00:25:54,600 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 3: music and Aretha Franklin and it uses you know, class 443 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 3: bally technique throughout, but it also uses a lot of 444 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:04,120 Speaker 3: those social. 445 00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:06,920 Speaker 13: Dance movement that you'll see black people do at Clobes 446 00:26:06,960 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 13: in the House on the Street, and relating it to 447 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 13: Valley influences. 448 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 5: Stephanie Lee as another dancer in the company. 449 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 13: You'll see the four female dancers do this kind of 450 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 13: funky move and then they change it completely to the 451 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 13: Dali version of it, and then they change it back 452 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,200 Speaker 13: into the black version of it. 453 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,520 Speaker 2: By the final movement, the guys are dancing in the 454 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:26,880 Speaker 2: wings while they wait to enter. 455 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 5: It feels like a party. 456 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 2: In the grand finale, David takes the center while everyone 457 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 2: else dances around him. They whisper encouragement to him while 458 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 2: they dance. 459 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 6: They would just say, come on, David, you've got this, 460 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,520 Speaker 6: while still trying to do their own choreography. 461 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 5: And then it's his big solo. 462 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,359 Speaker 3: So then we were during the soul train line. Really 463 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 3: I'm just trying to remember. 464 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 2: The steps, and then David makes a split second decision. 465 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 5: He starts to improvise. 466 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 3: She was doing flips. He was surprising all of us 467 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 3: because he didn't do that during rehearsal. Kind of in 468 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 3: the moment, thought I'm going to do this, and then 469 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 3: all of a sudden he did an ariel. 470 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 6: I did a side aeriel on stage that I hadn't 471 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 6: rehearse and we didn't. 472 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 3: Fall, and we were all like audibly like David, Yeah, 473 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:22,600 Speaker 3: it was it was great, and he tore it up. 474 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 2: They line up to bow all together. Then in two's 475 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 2: David takes a final bow alone, his first principal role 476 00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 2: bow after the curtain finally lowers, David collapses. He lies 477 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,240 Speaker 2: on his back, a huge smile on his face. The 478 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 2: other dancers cluster around him and clap. The show wasn't perfect, 479 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 2: but they're going out on a high. They'll get a 480 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 2: week off back in New York and then they'll do 481 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:59,959 Speaker 2: it all again. They'll learn new parts, have new injury, 482 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,879 Speaker 2: travel to new cities, and dance. 483 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: But good show tonight, dancer sent thank you so much 484 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 1: for making this happen. It's been crazy, really good work, 485 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: really good work. And guess what, Friday's a day. 486 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 12: Definitely so that travel same way. Thank you, Thank you, 487 00:28:29,400 --> 00:29:01,000 Speaker 12: not get out of your costumes. Thank you. Good show. 488 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:06,960 Speaker 2: The Turning is the production of Rococo Punch and iHeart Podcasts. 489 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 2: It's written and produced by Alan Lance Lesser and Me. 490 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:15,080 Speaker 2: Our story editor is Emily Foreman. Mixing and sound designed 491 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:19,479 Speaker 2: by James Trout. Jessica Carisa is our assistant producer, Andrea 492 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 2: Assoage is our digital producer. Our executive producers are John 493 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 2: Paratti and Jessica Alpert at Rococo Punch at, Katrina Norbel 494 00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:29,920 Speaker 2: and Nikki. 495 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,320 Speaker 5: Etoor at iHeart Podcasts. 496 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,239 Speaker 2: For photos and more details on the series, follow us 497 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 2: on Instagram. 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