Virtuality – a new reality or a new challenge Liubov Khokhlova “So, today I have dancing class, meeting with friends and I’m going to ballet to the Mariinsky Theatre. Great, I have time to order little presents to my friends,” – I think so and finally wake up. Reluctantly I leave a bed and switch on the laptop. I choose the cutest socks and arrange delivery to addresses of my friends. Most of them now live in different cities, and that’s great that you can arrange delivery to any address. Choreographer from Novosibirsk runs the dancing class. Before the beginning Olga asks whether we can hear and see her good. Today we learn Charleston – a very popular social dance of the first quarter of the XX century. At first we learn base steps – touch, kick, cow tail, and then unite them into whole improvisation. I feel very comfortable to dance at home: nobody looks at me askance because of my mistakes and I can not to learn that dance bunch I don’t like. And I can practice in pajama! By the way, I go to the friend’s meeting in pajama too. Because I can afford it. We with my girls will think that it’s pajama party. Kate lives in Nijniy Novgorod and we with Vera – in Ivanovo. But Vera is in hospital now and it means that we can see all three only in Zoom. We all need positive emotions at that strange time, that is why we will drink tea (Vera while can’t drink no one other drink yet and play the game “Guess the melody”. Kate prepares entertain program, and we choose the time for call that way to not cross with procedures. At the evening a charming world of the Russian ballet is waiting for me. When I was a child I was engaged in dancing and my mom did not miss the opportunity to take me to some ballet and introduce me to the art. Today I will take her to the ballet. And it will not be just anywhere, but at the Mariinsky Theatre. The best dancers of that theatre will perform for us the Nutcracker ballet. Moreover it’s absolutely free! Great, that we can see translation from the Theatre at home.
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