Only Connect: Yearning for the Intimacy of a Danced, Onstage World
Russell Janzen of City Ballet misses the physical and emotional closeness forged onstage, which are lost working on Zoom and in socially distanced dancing.
Russell Janzen, photographed on his rooftop in Brooklyn, rehearsed with a partner for the first time in months in April.Credit.Jingyu Lin for The New York Times
By Russell Janzen
Published May 5, 2021Updated May 10, 2021
When the music begins, we start to dance. It’s early April, and for the first time in 13 months I’m 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 we’re not used to this sort of closeness.
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