The White Crow

442 00:51:46,167 --> 00:51:47,292 Thank you 443 00:51:47,751 --> 00:51:50,542 ..do you ever think about... 444 00:51:51,251 --> 00:51:53,917 ..the purpose of dance? 445 00:51:54,501 --> 00:51:56,126 - The purpose? - Yes. 446 00:51:56,251 --> 00:51:58,459 Nobody thinks about this. 447 00:51:58,584 --> 00:52:00,001 It's true. 448 00:52:00,126 --> 00:52:02,834 Why dance? 449 00:52:04,417 --> 00:52:06,667 To take the audience somewhere else. 450 00:52:07,709 --> 00:52:09,834 - Somewhere new. - Yes, of course. 451 00:52:11,126 --> 00:52:12,834 But why? 452 00:52:15,042 --> 00:52:16,209 Escape. 453 00:52:17,209 --> 00:52:18,834 Just that? 454 00:52:19,334 --> 00:52:21,792 Is life that awful, then? 455 00:52:22,334 --> 00:52:24,501 And escape to what? 456 00:52:27,709 --> 00:52:31,709 You see, all the time I'm teaching technique. 457 00:52:31,834 --> 00:52:33,792 That's all I do. 458 00:52:33,917 --> 00:52:35,334 However, 459 00:52:35,459 --> 00:52:37,042 it is good to remember - 460 00:52:37,167 --> 00:52:40,251 technique is only a means, 461 00:52:41,626 --> 00:52:43,584 not an end. 462 00:52:44,417 --> 00:52:47,001 "Oh, he leapt perfectly." 463 00:52:47,126 --> 00:52:48,501 So what? 464 00:52:48,626 --> 00:52:52,751 "Oh, she raised an arm, it was perfect." 465 00:52:53,834 --> 00:52:54,959 So? 466 00:52:56,334 --> 00:53:00,376 We spend so much time on technique. 467 00:53:00,751 --> 00:53:03,501 It's all we think about. 468 00:53:03,626 --> 00:53:06,084 What should we think about? 469 00:53:07,709 --> 00:53:09,876 Story. 470 00:53:11,126 --> 00:53:14,084 What story do we wish to tell? 471 00:53:15,209 --> 00:53:18,751 Why do so few people ask themselves: 472 00:53:19,834 --> 00:53:22,459 "What do I wish to say?" 473 00:53:31,126 --> 00:53:33,501 You need to let your feelings pour out. 474 00:54:04,334 --> 00:54:06,584 Let's stop here. 475 00:54:06,709 --> 00:54:08,834 Be more expressive with your body. 511 00:56:23,626 --> 00:56:25,376 Sit down. 512 00:56:34,167 --> 00:56:36,001 I received this letter. 513 00:56:38,084 --> 00:56:39,727 I am being sent to the Ministry of Culture 514 00:56:39,751 --> 00:56:41,584 of the Bashkirian Soviet Socialist Republic 515 00:56:41,709 --> 00:56:43,334 to apply there for future work. 516 00:56:43,459 --> 00:56:45,251 Yes. So? 517 00:56:45,376 --> 00:56:47,084 This will kill me. 518 00:56:47,209 --> 00:56:48,584 I don't want to go. 519 00:56:49,709 --> 00:56:51,959 It doesn't matter what you want. 520 00:56:52,084 --> 00:56:54,709 Do you know that I've been offered three different places? 521 00:56:54,834 --> 00:56:57,292 - I didn't know that. - With three different companies. 522 00:56:57,417 --> 00:56:59,292 The Bolshoi wants me. 523 00:56:59,792 --> 00:57:03,959 One day you can go to the Bolshoi in Moscow. 524 00:57:04,084 --> 00:57:05,126 Why not? 525 00:57:05,251 --> 00:57:08,501 But first you have to go and dance in Ufa. 526 00:57:08,626 --> 00:57:12,292 If I go to Ufa, I'll never go to the Bolshoi. 527 00:57:13,167 --> 00:57:15,084 I'll be too old. 528 00:57:15,667 --> 00:57:19,376 Who do you think paid for your education? 529 00:57:19,501 --> 00:57:21,084 Your parents? 530 00:57:23,417 --> 00:57:25,167 No. 531 00:57:25,292 --> 00:57:27,459 The State paid for you. 532 00:57:28,459 --> 00:57:29,584 Soviet people. 533 00:57:29,709 --> 00:57:32,459 Isn't it time you did them the favour of saying thank you? 534 00:57:33,792 --> 00:57:38,209 Artists have responsibilities just like everyone else. 535 00:57:38,876 --> 00:57:41,334 What, you think you're above society? 536 00:57:41,459 --> 00:57:43,251 Go on, tell me. 537 00:57:43,376 --> 00:57:46,251 For three years, you've only taken. 538 00:57:46,376 --> 00:57:48,459 Now you have to give something back. 539 00:57:48,584 --> 00:57:50,209 I give back on the stage. 540 00:57:50,334 --> 00:57:52,959 Yes - in Moscow, in Leningrad, you're happy to go there. 541 00:57:53,084 --> 00:57:54,667 But what's wrong with Ufa? 542 00:57:54,792 --> 00:57:58,042 - Do you look down on the people? - No. 543 00:57:58,167 --> 00:57:59,626 Your little home town. 544 00:57:59,751 --> 00:58:02,501 - I give something no one else can give. - Well? Who made you? 545 00:58:02,626 --> 00:58:04,376 Where do you come from? Who raised you? 546 00:58:04,501 --> 00:58:05,917 How can you be like that? 547 00:58:26,542 --> 00:58:28,417 Why are you looking so miserable? 548 00:58:30,042 --> 00:58:31,626 You know very well. 549 00:58:32,751 --> 00:58:34,251 Everyone knows. 550 00:58:36,501 --> 00:58:40,126 I want you to dance with me, Rudi. 551 00:58:40,251 --> 00:58:41,584 What? 552 00:58:41,709 --> 00:58:43,292 Where? 553 00:58:43,417 --> 00:58:45,876 At the Kirov, where else? 554 00:58:46,001 --> 00:58:48,709 Did no-one tell you? I've been ordered back home. 555 00:58:49,542 --> 00:58:50,709 To Ufa. 556 00:58:50,834 --> 00:58:52,876 Forget about that. 557 00:58:53,001 --> 00:58:55,917 What are you saying? I went to Moscow to plead. 558 00:58:58,126 --> 00:59:0