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IN BALANCHINE'S CLASSROOM takes us back to the glory years of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet through the remem | dG1fV05uOHphaVQzR1U

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00:01George Balanchine said,

00:03I don't want dancers that love to dance.

00:05I want dancers that need to dance.

00:11Balanchine was one of the most important people

00:13in the ballet world ever.

00:15When Balanchine came to America,

00:18there was no real ballet training.

00:22Balanchine not only started a company,

00:25he changed the whole look of ballet.

00:30He was inventing movement that was so new.

00:34He was experimenting.

00:35This is like some kind of mad scientist.

00:38It's like I was a pupil of Einstein.

00:42Sometimes it was so strange

00:44and what he was asking you to do.

00:47It took you a while to figure it out.

00:50And then again, he'd say,

00:51your hands like baby, like baby.

00:54He talked to me about eagles, soccer players.

00:57Scraping the bowl with your foot.

01:01Any other ballet class, eight of something,

01:03that's a lot of repetitions.

01:04Balanchine often gave 32, 64, faster.

01:08And faster.

01:09Faster, faster, faster, faster.

01:11Oh, no way.

01:12I remember thinking I was going to throw up,

01:14but he was trying to find out what our limits were.

01:17You think I am going to fall down and die.

01:20And he would say, dear, what are you saving it for?

01:27The way he taught, the way he choreographed.

01:32I can't imagine not passing on what I know.

01:37Do it fast.

01:38You have to push.

01:39As teachers, as much as we try, we're not Balanchine.

01:43Bigger.

01:44Hard.

01:45More delicate.

01:46But we devote ourselves to it.

01:47We have an obligation.

01:49I went from questioning, to believing, to being a disciple.

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