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Sascha Radetsky

American Dancer

Born: Mar 29, 1977

Ballet Great Me Old Stage Teacher

Related authors: Alvin Ailey JoJo Siwa Katherine Dunham Martha Graham Merce Cunningham Mikhail Baryshnikov Misty Copeland Twyla Tharp

American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes. Sascha Radetsky

If age someday grounds my feet and wilts my port de bras, what vestige of the old life will be left? The signs that I was a dancer will gradually fade like stripes on a beach towel. Even my knowledge of the art form, reaped in sweat over decades, could be lost over time. Sascha Radetsky

Life Art Time Knowledge Age Old Will Signs Lost Dancer Stripes Someday Beach Could Fade Towel Over Feet Like Art Form Left Bras Decades Gradually Form Sweat Grounds Even Port

Performing, not rehearsing, is a dancer's raison d'etre, and I've been lucky to 'etre' in some extraordinary places - Cuba, Paris, Mongolia. In particular, a two-week stint in Greece leaps to mind. We danced in the Acropolis's Herodes Atticus amphitheater, once a venue for gladiator spectacles. Sascha Radetsky

Mind Extraordinary Danced Dancer Once Some Paris Gladiator Performing Particular Leaps Venue Cuba Been Greece Places Lucky Rehearsing Spectacles

People come and go, and I've certainly had experiences with overbearing figures and conflicts here and there, but for the most part I've found the dance community to be really supportive and I've formed some lifelong bonds, like with Ethan. Sascha Radetsky

Sir Kenneth MacMillan's version of 'Romeo and Juliet' is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev's breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin. Sascha Radetsky

My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else - I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back. Sascha Radetsky

Decision Made Accidents Before Else Back More More Than Anything Had Retire Couple Attrition Due Than December Just Cemented Anything Flat Anything Else Choice Injuries Actually Last Neck

Twyla's works are complex, and they really push you as an athlete and push you spiritually as well. Before doing a Twyla ballet, you have to get everything in order: You have to get a good night's sleep, you have to eat well, you have to be in great shape, and then you just go and leave it all out there. Sascha Radetsky

Good Great You Before Everything Complex Out Athlete Eat All-Out Spiritually Shape Push Well Leave Ballet Doing Go Get Just Order Then Really Works Night Sleep

At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks. Sascha Radetsky

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An ex-ABT ballerina, while staging a ballet for the company, once followed a dancer into the bathroom to deliver notes through the stall door. She was known to bark - literally, like a dog - during private rehearsals. Sascha Radetsky

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