Only connect: Yearning for the intimacy of a danced, onstage world
The New York City Ballet dancer Russell Janzen near his home in New York, April 28, 2021. Janzen misses the physical and emotional closeness forged onstage, which are lost on Zoom and in socially distanced dancing. Jingyu Lin/The New York Times.
by Russell Janzen
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- When the music begins, we start to dance. Its early April, and for the first time in 13 months Im rehearsing with a partner in the New York City Ballet studios. Ashley Bouder and I bump into each other as we dance side by side. After more than a year of dancing on our own were not used to this sort of closeness.