London, Opernball and Preparation for NYC…
Wrote that really some time ago. Sorry to post it only now
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Hi again.
I’m sorry I did not get back to blog some days (actually more than 2 weeks :-/ ). I had a busy time back there.
Well I’m sitting right now in the plane to Amsterdam (the connection flight to New York) and write this thingy here to later post it on my blog.
London
Well I was in London for two days to rehearse and unsurprisingly it rained like always. Whenever I am there it somehow happens to rain, no matter what time of the year or how long I stay. It just rains buckets. The rehearsals with my partner Roberta Marquez from the Royal Ballet went well and I had a nice time over there walking around in Covent Garden and meet some old friends. I was there already before. What comes to my mind now is a clip I found back last year in YouTube. It’s funny actually. Please watch that clip here and focus on Second 00:36…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsGHSg81wbk (unfortunately the embedding is disabled)
Furthermore here are some pictures I made with my phone (I apologize for the quality).
Covent Garden:
View from the Royal Ballet area:
(By now I was interrupted by the stop in Amsterdam. Now I am writing from the flight to New York.)
Vienna Opernball
Well immediately after that took place Vienna’s Opernball. I actually don’t know how popular this is apart from the German speaking countries, but here it is definitely a big thing. (Really excessively) dressed up people come together and celebrate, dance and have fun. Even the theatre itself gets dressed up for the occasion. The tickets have a hefty price tag, but luckily I got to go for free since I was dancing a small variation choreographed by Giorgio Madia. All in all it was a nice and special experience, which I will not forget.
New York Preparations
Well, my program in New York is not an easy one. I am going to dance Les Bourgeois, Moorhuhn and the Don Quixotte Pas De Deux with Roberta. First of all the worst thing is that DonQ (that is the acronym for Don Quixotte) will be in the very end and it is definitely the piece which I need the most energy for. It always has been and will be, so I just have to deal with it, I guess. The problem is the constant warming-up-dance-getting-cold cycle, which really drains on your powers, especially when you are dancing three times. In this case the normal routines you are used to do not apply fully and you really have to plan things and your energy out in between the performances and in the breaks. I will try my best as always but unfortunately you never know with what surprise life comes up for you. I like things to be pinpoint precise and planned out in advance, but you never know 
If you have watched, please know I tried to do my best
Well. They are giving out ice-cream inflight now (even though unfortunately it is no Ben Jerry’s or Häagen Dazs, but now any icecream will do it actually ^_^) and the flight is about to land soon, so I’ll finish that here and post it later in my hotel.
Flavia says:
Hey Daniil!
I’m a brazilian dancer (not professional) that follow your career and love the way you dance.
I was so happy when knew that you and Roberta danced together! The photos taken by gene schiavone are wonderful! Congrats!
Hope to see the video!
bye
February 25th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
vilma says:
Nice video! A little short though…
And the Opernball looks kinda nice 
Lots of luck for NYC!
February 26th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Mi-Gyeong says:
It seems that you had a great days !!
Nice photos with cloudy of London ^^ Those exoticism structure in London(or other europe cities) I really desire to visit and see.
A sight of Openball is not familiar where I come from, it looks richness ^^ Well I don’t know but the Openball place looks like theatre without chairs ^^
Haha, I watched that clip sometimes before and now I watched carefully more than Ms. Bussell
(Also on second 00:43 ^^)
Hope you are sleep well and take care !!
March 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm