We may give them an agent of change this is where. The female peacemakers storms are turning where we fit into double. Dutch. Think. Thats just a. Few final touches and theyre ready and same young same you know if well be dancing in the most beautiful of christmas ballets. On the big opera stage in vladivostok eastern russia. Being a ballet dancer is nice but tough. Its even tougher for someone who comes from the provinces and is just starting out. Be able to tense up lift your back turn your legs outward. They want is that not everyone can take it like you want with with this white yet why do you have to wait here. A lot more who we were now what you need behind your back stomach pulling your tail 2 shoulders down. On the curriculum its just called dance and classical dance in reality its really ringback hard work every morning for hours. For the next 8 years this will be simulating some your last routine at the far Eastern Branch of the Moscow State Academy of choreography also known as the bolshoi Ballet School. It has a language all its own good it is to 1st time i heard pullin your entire life out what title is that the cool and how do you pull it in. One turn your name 5 is outward. You know not go. Ordinance to turn the find 90 degrees out in the hip socket its classical ballet his 1st position. So hes tough see a boy i know at least understand what my teacher wants of me. Ringback not long ago she preys on me when i did something right and thought what exactly. Hostile this is. Russia has a global reputation as the home of classical ballet we have that for more than a century future stars of the ballet stage have trained the same way but the competition is fierce to get by students have to have strong muscles and nerves of steel when youve worn. Some young is stubborn thats a good trait to have in ballet plus hes got strong muscles and he can jump very well. Which he still could actual. Thats important for the mens technique. Hes also very good looking and yes the. Stage career in ballet is short for most aspiring dancers its over before it is even begun d by their late thirtys the dancers retire so not only do they have to be extremely good they have to be extremely dedicated. To be on and his class are dedicated that also applies to dispell much the other boy in the class boys are in short supply at the academy. Wanting a 2nd you know the 1st time i stood there with my family and saw all these girls i said to him hello whats your name a minute nervous to. Start but well get through this when they get. A lot of us talk is russias principal port city on the pacific during its many years as a soviet naval base it was off limits to foreigners the city is still known far less as a center of arts than of commerce and trade. So it was a small sensation when early in 2019 the Bolshoi Academy opened a branch heres so far away from moscow but within reach of young people of the far east sim your own comes from john almost a 1000 kilometers away. Today his mother is visiting. Him she goes through all this mystery it was as if wed never been apart come here give me a hug of course we miss him. But were also so proud of him did you miss me too. Now that doesnt live with his parents he only makes it home 3 times a year during School Vacations here in the future ballet dancer has other things to think about. God or. God. He gets a break from cramming math in english but ballet practice continues. To stay in shape even without the bar. I have to stretch at least an hour every day. I sit on the floor and stand on my tiptoes just yes. Youre watching the private push pull him happy that everything seems to be so easy for him. He says then i sit on my heels im told im forward that stretches my feet. Go play opinion myers we know ballet dancing is a very serious and difficult profession he told me. Last night up here in that same young will have to work his whole life to maintain the level he achieves when approaching it heath where reagan used to go. To war of new ideas of a Crystal Garden whats important is not to skip a single day. Once i didnt stretch my feet for a few days and afterward i heard so much. You know would you commit to what its his opportunity to get to know another world and maybe even to become famous and was more than a. Slob a buck a car. Simians mother works as a cousin edition right now she has to work as a seamstress on his ballet shoes his father is a businessman they can afford his training because they only have to pay a part of the cost for their sons stay at the school. Room in. The education itself or the state Ballet School is to issue free. This is Simeon Simeon of so last visit to be john before the big premiere in vladivostok. You. Know. Because you know you can do it from while you can keep the oil at 1st it was hard for me here but i had my doubts and thought hes still so little how can i possibly leave him alone but of law of how can he survive a separation of a 1000 kilometers. Of course i still miss him. Because i dont show it but every time he leaves i realise just how much i miss him. Yulia wont see her son for 2 months then hell be performing on stage as a soloist. 7 many youngsters dream of becoming ballet dancers of taking the spotlight for an enthusiastic audience and having millions of fans. For most it remains a dream. Simeone had already been dancing for 3 years in b. John but folk not ballet one day a Ballet Academy staff member spotted him on stage and invited him to vladivostok. A. Lot of us talks upper house was looking for a boy to dance a child solo in the popular nutcracker ballet. Simulant was just right for the part. Sons of the. I was a bit scared. Yeah that giant stage isnt the real ballet dancers go. Down obvious afraid out embarrass myself in front of them. I want to do everything right from the started to them and they dilute its put out in the. Net cracker ballet with a score by tchaikovsky tells about the Christmas Eve when a broken would not cracker is transformed into a prince during the night some young plays the boy who broke the nutcracker and set the drama in motion. For. The. Stop sign youre on wait not like that you have to listen to the music. I was afraid the adult onset so you can do everything you would see me dance unlawful do you think thats what i was most afraid of. It though i thought how can i stand on the same stage as them. Its terrible really terrible last night. But the day of the big premiere inevitably arrives. 01356 seats in blood of all stocks opera house are sold out in the audience is simeons friend my feet from the ballet class. And of course his family from b. Or b. John have come. To us. Goonies to that letter than you will he did if he did it hes accomplished his mission even though he was so nervous but i think he hit the mark with. The 11 year old boy has earned his rose as the 1st bouquet in simulants career in ballet. This is my chance. Ballys school they said it would be the chance of a lifetime and i felt really. Nothing wrong with that are you pretty. d german voices. In the South African growth. In the beethoven tests 29 teams campus project. Is a solo 2 worlds are united time music. On. His future mission soaring into outer space charlie the robot sheep and other Intelligent Machines are the future. But theyre already carrying out valuable tasks in the present what can Artificial Intelligence do. And what are its limits. Charlie and the humans. To make d. W. In the eye of climate change. For a cosmic see. Whats in store for. Flimsiest a for the future. Coming for to make a city the call to get inside clear counter. That