Dancers suffer particularly from the Covid-19. They are not threatened by the disease, but the constraints linked to their practice are enormous. Breath-taking masks (those in Hamburg quickly dropped it, those in Strasbourg feel free), touching each other, and until they can return to the studio, the enormous frustration of not being able to experience the 'space.
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What if we reverse the constraint? John Neumeier, choreographer and director of the Hamburg ballet, insisted that his dancers return to the studios. Classes resumed on April 29. All day long, one hour classes in groups of six with half an hour of ventilation and disinfection between each sequence. “ Because we have very large studios with large windows on both sides. The ballet doctors and the unions initially refused, but I finally convinced them, ”he says. By dint of observing the osmosis that takes place between each sextet and
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