The Luster of Stars in Moscow
⁇ 8
"Jessifter! Run, then jump the river," Rafael orders Cheri. "After that Jessifer looked back and you two looked at each other" he explained, pointing to Saul.
If only acting jumps, I can too! thought Cheri lightly. Then do everything according to instructions.
Run, jump and look back!
The whole room suddenly laughed.
Cheri frowned and looked around.
Why are they laughing?
"Repeat it again!" Rafael instructs.
Cheri repeated it again. The whole room laughed again.
Rafael's face turned sour. "Repeat," he growled.
Cheri repeated it again, this time a little more powerful.
But Rafael ordered to repeat it again many times.
"Again!"
"Again!"
And…
"Again!"
What's wrong? cheri thought he didn't understand.
Run, jump and look back.The movement is right, easy!
Rafael pulled up his body in a furious manner. "Again!" his orders.
Cheri. His breath was breathless. What should I move like? he thought he was getting clueless.
"Why silence?" Rafael breaks the table in front of him. "Come, do it again!"
I don't understand any more, Cheri's mind is bitter.
"CHERI!" Rafael stepped into the middle and approached him.
Cheri shuffled with an anxious face. Is he gonna slap me?
"Third-beat waltz music, eighth scene!" Rafael yells at the soundman.
Music playing!
"Try walking!" rafael's orders to Cheri.
Actually... What does he want me to do? Cheri was inexhaustible. But he kept walking.
Music stops.
Cheri also stopped and turned to Rafael.
Rafael walked towards Cheri and stopped right in front of him while crossing. "Do you understand?"
Cheri looked up, still not understanding.
"You walk really like a fashion model" Rafael said. "Ballet has ruined you."
Ballet broke me?
Cherry looked at Rafael. "Why are you talking like that?"
Ballet to me is everything, he said inwardly, hurt by the man's words.
"Will you try it?" Rafael did not comment on Cheri's question.
Cheri swallowed.
"Come on, try walking once more!" Rafael pushed his waist. "Walk reasonably!" He adds.
Reasonable?
So usually my walking is unnatural?
I did it without thinking of anything!
"Is that what the name is natural?" Rafael snorts cynically. "The ballet is too attached to your every move."
Cheri turned around and glared at Rafael.
Mikail looked at the faces of the two with a tense face.
"Normal people, even if they walk in front of the game center or even in the discotheque, there are times when they still walk like a line of soldiers," said Rafael.
Oh, nice! cheri thought he was getting upset. So now I'm not normal either?
"The ballet exercises have made your body react automatically to the music." Rafael added. "Even when you force yourself not to do it, when the soundman plays the waltz music earlier, still your gait subtly adjusts to the rhythm of the waltz. Whether it's jumping or walking, your movements remain too beautiful-too set!"
Too beautiful?
Overregulated?
"Is it beautiful it can't be?"
"Beautiful, if excessive will be unnatural" rafael said. "One thing you need to know, a theater performer who can't move properly on stage, is worthless!"
"Easy! You're just interrupting!" Rafael snatches the manuscript from Cheri's hands, then turns his back to him and returns to the table. "Jessifer's role replaced Anna!"
Cheri stepped away from the middle of the circle and then burst open the crowd with a sullen look.
Mikail.
Rafael watches the girl through the tail of his eyes.
"Lho! You want to go?" The girl who replaced Mikail's duties in the administration room reprimanded Cheri.
"I'm no longer needed, am I?" Cheri. "No matter how good a talent I have, in the theater I'm still an amateur."
Until now Cheri still does not know where exactly lies his talent. But in any case, Rafael found that talent in him.
"Pity!"
Sounded giggling.
"It looks like shock."
"It's a big mistake if he thinks he can play good right from the start" he sighed as some girls sounded cynical.
That's not what shocked me, ' Cheri thought. But Rafael's expression was as if to say, "I don't need you!"
"What if he turns out to be a talent with good instincts in the theater world?" Mikail Volkov interrupted the girls who were whispering.
The girls were stuck in unison.
"In hindsight, since childhood, for a dozen years, his body has been continuously forged by ballet exercises. It makes him an expert at moving. Among you.." Mikail hung up her sentence and looked around, staring one by one at the faces of the girls around her. "Is there anything like it?"
The girls bowed.
"That kid is no ordinary beginner!" Mikail. Then walk out of the training room.
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"Cheri! Don't daydream!" Alla Petrova, ballet teacher at the Royal Academy, clapped her hands together shouting.
Cheri was surprised and looked at him.
"I told you to stand there!" Alla pointed her index finger at the barre. "From yesterday you interrupted your group's dance!"
"I'm so-sorry!" Cherry out of formation.
How could I forget that I was in ballet school?
Cheri patted his forehead and let out a short sigh. These are the times I have been waiting for the most. But everything goes in the left ear out the right ear.
Rafael's words turned out to be quite influential!
He must be wrong, he thought he would not accept.
He said my body was too easy to react to music, the proof is now that I don't hear anything because I'm too focused on thinking about his words.
Instantly an idea flashed through Cheri's head. He walked to the corner of the room where he put down his bag, took out a spare stocking and tied both his ankles.
I had to release the music from inside my head, he said. Then walk to the barre with your legs tied.
Focus on other things so that my movements do not follow the rhythm, he told himself. I had to set my steps so as not to be too wide.
Too arranged…
Too beautiful!
Alla Petrova turned to Cheri with her eyes splashed. "What is this kid doing, anyway?" his eras were not thought out.
Will expertise in ballet be a weakness in theater?
Waitaminute!
Cheri stopped his steps and thought hard, trying to recall something that seemed to be related to the issue of theater and ballet.
Ah, I remember now. While still in school in St. Petersburg, there was once an actor who studied briefly at his school. He said he just wanted to learn the broken movement.
There is also a figure skating athlete. He said he wanted to learn how to display a strong expression.
There it is, thought Cheri. For movements that fit the role, ballet will actually be a force.
If I could live out my role while acting, music wouldn't mislead me. I just need to focus on my role!
That way…
Concentrate on the role…
Will be my specialty!
For the first time on that day, Cheri finally smiled.
Alla Petrova glanced back at him and groaned once more. What kind of sick kid is this, anyway?
Cheri looked back at him while smiling widely.
"Are you taking the wrong medication?" Alla snarled at the girl.