How a trip to Bunnings got ballet stars through âdevastatingâ lockdown
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By Amanda Dunn
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During Melbourneâs second, extended lockdown last year, Chengwu Guo wondered if it might be time to quit. Having danced with the Australian Ballet for 13 years and reached the status of principal artist, Guo was worried about a back injury that had kept him off stage for two years. Would time away from the studio â and performing â make it flare up again?
Certainly, he and fellow principal Ako Kondo, who is also his wife, were finding the time away from their artform hard to bear. At the start of the first lockdown in March, the company had given each dancer a small square of tarkett mat to take home and use as a dance floor in whatever space they might have available to them.