The latest series of the latest series of Amy Shermanno dived into joy in the professional ballet world without moving away from the harsh economic facts.
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“Dancing is discipline, expression is openness!” A ballet teacher screams to a studio full of children while jumping around them and making ridiculous faces. Jack McMelan (Luke Kirby), Executive Director of the Metropolitan Theater in New York City (MBT), watching them, then guides the teacher to “be young”, and all of them shrink like the believing topics that bow to their king. After seconds, “Mr. Jack” is treated on the ground.
Prime Video ÉtoileWhich I created Mrs. Maysel, the wonderful The Emmy Shermanno team and Daniel Baldino explore the professional ballet world from a variety of different angles, but this short scene in the dance studio shines its most brutal ideas: tension between the freedom of artistic expression and the necessary discipline to refine a craft; The ways that individual power numbers can reduce the pursuit of institutional goals; How can the pressure of organized arts administration to lower its leaders.
This scene also works as a bridge between Étoile (The French term for a major dancer) And the previous ballet series that focuses on ballet Amy Shermann Plano, which is delicious and short -term, unfortunately BUNHEADSWho starred Soton Foster As an exhibition in Vigas, her career burns her career to teach young ballet dancers in a small town twisted on the western coast. Étoile Not only is the procedure to the world of the high risk of the leading ballet company in New York City-Fahi is increasing on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean to integrate a Parisian perspective as well, which brings together two companies together for a bold marketing scheme not only to save themselves, but a fully technical form to gain a new audience.
Many of the struggles facing MBT and Paris’ Le Ballet National (LBN), fictional isotopes for TRUE–world CompaniesIt is not unique in the dance world. The masses and financing die, with the monopoly of the smaller demographic composition. Labor issues have intensified, and the disorder caused by the epidemic has left long -term wounds. One ÉtoileThe greatest strengths are how the ballet company is placed in a workplace like any other place, although it is especially concerned with the extent of its employees.
In the model Sherman-Palladino fashion, these workplaces are full of bold characters whose dedication to their personal ideologies is a lot of friction that feeds comedy. There is Jacques Kirby, Jacques, who does not want to deal with compulsory human resources training and is looking for any opportunity to reduce costs. His French counterpart, Geneva Lavin (Charlotte GinsburgIt has a more relaxed composure, but it is concerned about the status of their business and is ready to make moral concessions to secure financing. Their professional relationship is complicated because of a previous relationship that ended the Geneva marriage, and Jack is still carrying a candle for it based on his attempts to approach the nightclub dance circuit, which he quickly reprimanded.
Geneviève is the person who comes to Jack with the marketing campaign to return the masses and put out fresh faces, suggesting that they exchange their first talents for a year. GENEVIèVE does not have any problem abandoning her dancers and connectors while Jack fights all her recommendations, which include former LBN student, Mishi Duplessis (Taïs Vinolo), MBT, Tobias Bell (Gideon Glick). GENEVIèVE only objects when Jack asks about Lbn’s étoile, Cheenne Toussaint (Lou De Laâge), a fire that had a loud work as a guest artist in MBT and may have been romantic in Jack as well.
Cheenne is a radical environmental fight with hostile behavior, and it has been presented on a boat surface with a group of environmental activists who collide with an illegal fishing process. The chaos of the sea is a reflection of the wild spirit of Shayan, and it ends up in prison due to the danger that she was exposed to on her activist colleagues. When Cheyenne discovers that it is traded in MBT, it storms Geneviève, and she wanders from her time at sea, a great touch that makes everyone who has a strong physical reaction to her existence, which enhances the abrasive aura that Lu de la in performing. Cheyenne has the most persuaded background cells for all characters, her mother’s paintings that share a phone with her neighbor and use a homemade toaster, providing hints of modest formatting that formed Shayan’s anti -brotherhood beliefs.
Shayan’s political views were placed in a direct conflict with the financier of this entire project: “Craseblin” Crapelin (Simon Kalo), and it is a weeds that believe that the art of financing is his way of correcting the group of mistakes he committed to win his wealth. Crespin wears a mask of British bleeding, but it drops it when dealing with Jack’s refusal to accept any of his previous charitable contributions. “I am not used to that,” says Crespin with an ice resentment, and Calo does an excellent job that brings hidden from the danger to the real Krespin’s appreciation for the ballet and his desire to see him flourish. Crispin and Cheyenne have a hot exchange when they meet on the MBT stage, and everything that Cresabin justifies about financing because atonement does not eventually mean anything as soon as she reveals that she was attacking for him boat.
Étoile It comes to money as much as it is about art, and although the first episode “The Swap” has a fair share of reflections about the nature of being an artist, the depth of the story comes from its examination of the financial investment that is placed in the dance. The economic conflicts of the organization are the driving force of the conspiracy, but combining the financial burden that was placed on the dancers gives the chain a human touch that helps to make this elite profession seem more connected.
Being a professional ballet dancer belovedThe integrated economic inequality in the profession is placed in the forefront and the center ÉtoileFirst scene. After a series of shots that show the empty mbt facility at night, we meet Soso (Lamai Chang), a little girl practiced in the empty ballet studio while cleaning her mother. Soso’s mother prepares her phone to record the classrooms during the day because she cannot register her daughter, and borrows the pairs of Point shoes that remain in the studio. Shayan Soso, who is practicing at the end of the first episode, was admired by the feet of Soso and the level of her skill, given the lack of practical training. In the second episode, “The Bull”, Cheyenne offers her a pair of new Pointe shoes as Susu written below. It is a delicate moment indicating that these two will go alone BUNHEADS-Cheleenne’s encrypted journey, finding the spiritual fulfillment that it lacks by helping SUSU to reach its full potential.
The cost of shoes appears several times in the “The Swap”, including a precise exchange between dancers. One provides tips on how to wash the blood from the fabric using baking soda or whitening, and when the other says it is easier to buy a new pair, it responds to being late and that the shipment is late. This can be taken at the nominal value, but the sub -text is that these dancers have two different financial cases: one must put an additional work at home to obtain appropriate work clothes, and the other can drop more money to solve the problem. This is not just an American issue. Parisian dancers are about to strike, and their last request is to compensate them for the thread they have to buy to sew strips on the toe shoes.
The second episode of Étoile He sees the talents traded in its new surroundings, which is a less concentrated chapter than the first. Jack appears as a fool in a direct television interview about trade, as he discussed the material attractiveness of his dancers in a very ignorant manner in his role. Perhaps he had not trained him in human resources, but it is difficult to imagine that someone reaches his position without knowing that he should not be an activity on the camera.
Meanwhile, Geneva is facing the implications of the loss of French national treasure, Shayan, and tries to assemble the very stubborn Tobias, and deals with a drama behind the scenes that involve a bull to produce the upcoming opera, a symbol of Chambal, and his methods of involvement that are exposed to unexpected complications. During a joint press conference for the two companies, the Shamblee disappears the camera as if it is superior, announcing that he has an official position on “the head of getting fun things” and presenting his friend Pink (is this actually Pink?) To share an excitement about the campaign. By the end of the press conference, the bull is in front of the cameras, as it draws attention that should go to the dance companies.
Shayan’s aggression becomes more cartoon in the movie “The Bull” as she closes male dance partners by telling a story about her mother who kills a man in the village where she grew up. Insisting from the current company, Shayan is looking for a new partner (with the help of Didi Kun, fatFrench). You find one in Jail (David Alvarez), a former MBT dancer who is now working on a farm. A generation is not interested in returning, but he was forced to do so when Shayan announces that her partner will be during the press conference.
The second episode is a big episode of Mishi, and revealed that she is the daughter of the Minister of Culture in France, who helped organize the campaign to bring her home. Mishi is immediately isolated by both her parents and colleagues. Her parents are very busy themselves because they notice that Mishi is uncomfortable with every aspect of being at home, a feeling that is exacerbated by the reception she gets at work, as other dancers look at her because of her cutting and ending up in New York City.
Étoile Full with Easter Eggs, from the recreation of Henry Liotueler A picture of the feet of the ballet dancer In the opening credits to a cadre of professional dancers in the actors’ team. Tiller Beck, a current major dancer of New York City, has a repeated role like Eva, a member of the company on her way to the theater after wandering in ideas about her washing and military service for BTS members, causing a multi -dancer accumulation during the second chapter Lake Swan. Ruby Vertchild, a former ballet manager in New York City and MunkusTrap in Cats The movie, Larry is also repeated, the first male dancer suffering from anger of Shayan returned.
The creative team of the ballet team lights up in these two first two episodes, especially in the dance sequence that displays both sports and passion in the performance of the ballet. The numbers are designed on the stage, designed by Marguerite Derricks, and highlighting elevators, leaps and finely that make the audience explode in applause, but there are also automatic presentations of characters that help get rid of their characters.
With frustration with the implementation of his current article, Tobias (DNCE DOUBLE MAXWell Dennis Simoes) takes to the street, where it carries traffic through performance Western side story –Esque’s steps in the middle of a cross corridor because it is mainly not affecting others. Cheyenne (DUNCE DOUBLE CONSTANCE Devernay) allows her anger at its trading through improvisation in the studio, interacting with the environment to show how to control an area when it dances. Amy Shermanno is filming these offers with the long, without interruption, which shows the bodies of the entire dancers, helping the viewer to feel completely momentum of the phrase. Dancing sequence where Étoile He becomes a real defender of the artistic model, and we hope that the show will inspire its fans to search for professional dance in the real world.
