The Company Page #6

Please sit down.

You know, I really deserve

this thing.

Because you Italian guys made it

hard for me to be a dancer.

You know, you didn't help

one iota.

I had to hide my

ballet shoes.

And my Italian family,

they gave me such a hard time.

Listen, if your boys want

to be dancers...

please don't give them

a hard time.

That would really be

a special award to me.

- You better let me do that.

- Really?

- Yeah.

- It's probably a good idea.

Do you have a pan?

- I can make toast too.

- Toast is good.

- What do you like in your eggs?

- I don't know. Anything.

- What do you got?

- Not much. Let me see...

- Two tomatoes.

- Tomatoes are good.

- I have pepper. You want pepper?

- Peppers...

- Do you have onions?

- No, but I have onion salt.

No, that's ok.

- Can you close the door.

- Sure.

So, great we're finally starting

Blue Snake rehearsals.

I love it.

I just wanted to tell you a

little bit more about the piece.

We haven't had a chance to

talk about it so much...

so, here we are at

the beginning...

- What's happening?

- That's Mr. A's chair.

Oh, la chaise du maitre.

Je m'excuse. This one will do fine.

At the beginning of the piece

we've got the storyteller...

and the whole piece is like

stepping into a children's book.

So instead of opening the book

once he's done his opening solo...

the mouth of the snake opens

and the piece starts.

We have the zebra characters,

they are in black and white...

sort of representing the dualism

of the world that we live in.

And they come out like holding

hands and do a circle dance.

We enter into section two,

the mouth of the snake reopens...

we're into the red section,

the monkeys are coming out.

The whole piece is done sort

of in primal colors.

It's all very kind of fun

and very colorful.

And we go through a solo for

a female balloon head...

expressing sort of again

the joy of the child...

and eventually we come to this

finale which has the giant.

You still have a way to go

with your line.

And you also need to work on your

allegro, especially Mr. A's allegro.

I love allegro. If you can dance

allegro, you can dance anything.

If you're an allegro dancer,

there's nothing you can't do.

They're in love with the

lyricism and all that.

But you know what I call them?

Phony ballet. I hate it.

I fight with these guys

all the time.

I wanted you. I wanted Ry for

Snow pas, right?

Yes you did.

- You went out and she aced it.

- Yes she did.

Mark didn't want her for

Nellie Ely.

Then he saw her in rehearsals.

She was fantastic.

I know whereof I speak.

Edouard, yes?

- Mayor's office in 20 minutes.

- I'll be right there.

No, I can't right now.

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