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0:00:07 > 0:00:11God, what I could do for a nice, calm fashion show.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13Nice, easy, calm fashion show.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16All is forgiven, fashion. Come back.
0:00:26 > 0:00:30Jasper did the costumes for my production of Sleeping Beauty
0:00:30 > 0:00:32and I loved it so much I thought I should do
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Swan Lake for Jasper to do costumes and sets,
0:00:35 > 0:00:38which he hasn't done before.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42I started getting nervous about Swan Lake three months ago,
0:00:42 > 0:00:46so I called Jasper and said, "I haven't seen any designs yet."
0:00:46 > 0:00:49And he said, "Can you get down to the fax machine?"
0:00:49 > 0:00:51He knows it's downstairs.
0:01:05 > 0:01:09'Established in 1978, New York-trained Jasper Conran
0:01:09 > 0:01:13'has consistently designed classic yet directional collections.'
0:01:13 > 0:01:16And the winner of the British Collections is...
0:01:16 > 0:01:18Jasper Conran.
0:01:18 > 0:01:20APPLAUSE
0:01:21 > 0:01:24'Over ten years of designing has won Jasper Conran awards not only
0:01:24 > 0:01:27'on the fashion catwalk, but also on the theatrical stage.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30'This year, his designs for the theatre have earned him
0:01:30 > 0:01:32'a Laurence Olivier Award for costume.'
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Quite a lot of people are amazed by the fact that they look at my
0:01:39 > 0:01:44clothes and they can't associate me doing sort of big, frilly dresses.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46I wouldn't make theatrical clothes
0:01:46 > 0:01:48for women for walking down the street in.
0:01:48 > 0:01:51I don't see the logic in it.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55I suddenly found that there was an area of my creativity
0:01:55 > 0:01:59that I hadn't been using, and I'd been suppressing.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04And that there was a theatrical side to me after all.
0:02:13 > 0:02:17No, no, I'm not depressed... Yet!
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Take a bit out of the curve.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23It's just lost something along the way.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25And I want it to be more like this than like that.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37I mean, I'm trying to get information from Italy at the moment like mad.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39And, you know, they're being very Italian about it.
0:02:44 > 0:02:48Silver and gold, blue and green. It's all going to be shimmering.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Lovely. Lovely!
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Here we are. Swan Lake. OK, Prologue,
0:03:02 > 0:03:07which is a new invention, which is about three minutes long.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11We fade through from the gauze.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Here we have the Princess.
0:03:16 > 0:03:21She's coming along and she's picking the apples, the forbidden fruit.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29Rothbart, wicked magician,
0:03:29 > 0:03:32turns her into a swan.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36So, Act One. There it is.
0:03:36 > 0:03:38The little palace is three-dimensional
0:03:38 > 0:03:42- and that'll have real lights in it. - Little real lights in the back.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49Three minutes change.
0:03:49 > 0:03:50Swiftly.
0:03:50 > 0:03:54HE LAUGHS This I'll enjoy seeing.
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Right, let's go.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Swan Lake.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09- This is Act Three, Renton. - Yes.
0:04:09 > 0:04:11Ballroom.
0:04:11 > 0:04:15- Is it Jasper Conran blue? - It's JC Blue, yeah.
0:04:15 > 0:04:19Yeah, I saw that in your bathroom or somewhere.
0:04:19 > 0:04:20APPLAUSE
0:04:22 > 0:04:24INAUDIBLE
0:04:24 > 0:04:26HE SIGHS
0:04:29 > 0:04:30You'd prefer a pattern in it?
0:04:30 > 0:04:34After eight weeks of a tour, it can tend to get a bit tatty.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Well, repaint it then.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41But that's time. That's time and money.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43Another costume?
0:04:43 > 0:04:47What do you mean, another costume? No, no, no, no, no.
0:04:51 > 0:04:56The Scottish Ballet company is at the moment 40 dancers.
0:04:56 > 0:05:00We have principal dancers, we have soloists, corps de ballet,
0:05:00 > 0:05:04and then I invited some guests because we are doing 63 performances
0:05:04 > 0:05:09of Swan Lake in the season and it's very difficult for principal dancers
0:05:09 > 0:05:12to do more than three performances a week.
0:05:14 > 0:05:19Injuries are a constant worry. One minute you can be jumping around,
0:05:19 > 0:05:22the next minute you can be off for 12 weeks.
0:05:22 > 0:05:24One girl broke her foot the other week.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27I'm not sure, I think there's a couple of people with smaller things,
0:05:27 > 0:05:30but they're just taking it easy now in the rehearsals
0:05:30 > 0:05:31so that they're OK for performing.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39Yeah, I think that's going to be a good idea.
0:05:39 > 0:05:41It should be a bit like the night sky.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47'What happens is the makers get a sketch,
0:05:47 > 0:05:50'and they know that they should only go so far
0:05:50 > 0:05:52'before they show me what they're doing.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56'We have a fitting which is like a base fitting, just to get
0:05:56 > 0:05:58'the fit on the corset right.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01'And then I start doing my thing.'
0:06:01 > 0:06:05MUSIC: Swan Lake - Dance Of The Cygnets
0:06:35 > 0:06:37We all have to try and pretend it looks easy,
0:06:37 > 0:06:40but in fact you're smiling through absolute pain.
0:06:40 > 0:06:43And your feet are just absolutely aching.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46The toes are all joined and squashed up.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49It's absolute torture. It's really, really terrible.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52But, at the end of the day, you've got to think of
0:06:52 > 0:06:55all the advantages of all the stamina we'll have gained and things from it.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58So just try and think of the good points to get you through it.
0:06:58 > 0:07:03JASPER CONRAN: You expect ballet dancers to be sort of arty,
0:07:03 > 0:07:07kind of, you know, pink chiffon-y people.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12They're not. They are as rigidly trained and disciplined
0:07:12 > 0:07:15as any athlete you could care to mention.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19Where is she? That's why I was doing it.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22She's changing it dark to a normal colour.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27This is how these wigs start out in life.
0:07:28 > 0:07:30So you go from...
0:07:30 > 0:07:36probably that has ended up like that, you see.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Marvellous transformation.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45Are you going to have them all outlined before you have the infill?
0:07:45 > 0:07:48It's worked out that way.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Friends - the wonderful, wonderful Friends -
0:07:51 > 0:07:54they are Friends of Scottish Ballet.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58They do all our embroidery and things, which is fantastic.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Because we couldn't afford to do it otherwise.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04I'm very fond of ballet.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06Because I'm not working at the moment,
0:08:06 > 0:08:08it's something that I enjoy doing.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Five hours last week and then an hour or so, two hours this week.
0:08:12 > 0:08:16I think it's going to be, I'd say another five hours,
0:08:16 > 0:08:18before I get that finished. SHE LAUGHS
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- Oh, f... - Oh, what?
0:08:22 > 0:08:23BLEEP
0:08:23 > 0:08:25To have this embroidery normally
0:08:25 > 0:08:29would cost thousands and thousands and thousands of pounds.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31It's a huge, real help.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33Bye, ladies.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Tell me, did you design all the embroidery?
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Yes, I did.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41Well, did you never think that when you did wee curly bits
0:08:41 > 0:08:44that the bugle beads didn't fit?
0:08:44 > 0:08:46They're little bugle beads.
0:08:46 > 0:08:51They're not that little, so you're ending up with bits like swastikas
0:08:51 > 0:08:54instead of nicely wee curly bits.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57- You live and learn, now, don't you? - Yes.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11Right. Today is Friday.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14This is when most of the costumes will arrive,
0:09:14 > 0:09:19and we've got swans fairly under control.
0:09:19 > 0:09:24Um, lots of things are going to come in late. Lots of things.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28They're all panicking like mad. I'm not, I'm not!
0:09:28 > 0:09:31And... Two, three, four,
0:09:31 > 0:09:34one, two, three, four...
0:09:34 > 0:09:37REHEARSAL PIANO PLAYS
0:09:44 > 0:09:50'We rehearse quite often until 6.30pm in the evening
0:09:50 > 0:09:53'and by then I know that everyone is tired
0:09:53 > 0:09:57'but I want to get as much as possible done as soon as possible.'
0:09:57 > 0:10:00That's it, that's it, yeah.
0:10:01 > 0:10:06And then still you can look more profile.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07'We have three casts,
0:10:07 > 0:10:10'but as yet they've only really rehearsed two casts.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14'Even the second cast feel a bit under rehearsed at the moment.
0:10:14 > 0:10:16'Galina often makes last-minute changes.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20'For example, last Friday she has asked Lorna and I
0:10:20 > 0:10:23'to learn new places in Swans for opening night,'
0:10:23 > 0:10:26so the both of us are a bit worried about that
0:10:26 > 0:10:30because we're thinking opening night we'll just be copying everybody.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Hopefully we'll get a few more rehearsals.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36It's a bit of a battle to get the ostrich feathers.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40But I think they work rather nicely because what we are going to
0:10:40 > 0:10:45have to do is trim them down, just trim them down.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47We'll give them a little hairdo, a little haircut,
0:10:47 > 0:10:53because what I want is to get the feeling of the swans.
0:10:53 > 0:10:54WOMAN: Once I started working with them,
0:10:54 > 0:10:57I realised I was terribly allergic to them.
0:10:57 > 0:11:01I've had to take antihistamine for virtually the entire length
0:11:01 > 0:11:04of the time I've been working with them.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07But we employed some extra people to sew the feathers onto the net
0:11:07 > 0:11:12because it was easier than having me suffering too much.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14SHE SNEEZES
0:11:14 > 0:11:18I can decorate up the front of the tutu,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20but I can't do anything on the sides.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22I can't do any decoration on the sides
0:11:22 > 0:11:27because they've got to be lifted on the sides so the dancers...
0:11:27 > 0:11:31And they can really rip their hands open, the partners,
0:11:31 > 0:11:33if they catch anything.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35So you have to be very careful.
0:11:41 > 0:11:46You obviously worry if you have a lot of dancing to do that your costume
0:11:46 > 0:11:49is going to fit well and you're going to be able to move properly in it.
0:11:49 > 0:11:50So that's another thing.
0:11:50 > 0:11:55If you're wearing wigs and if you're wearing...whatever you're wearing,
0:11:55 > 0:11:57you need to be comfortable with it.
0:12:00 > 0:12:01Excellent.
0:12:01 > 0:12:03Do you know, I was talking to a taxi driver the other day
0:12:03 > 0:12:06and he said, "Och, what are you doing in Glasgow?"
0:12:06 > 0:12:09And I said, "Oh, I'm designing a ballet."
0:12:09 > 0:12:12He said, "You know, it's really interesting,
0:12:12 > 0:12:16"why is it that the ballet doesn't appeal to me?"
0:12:16 > 0:12:18He said, "What are they doing wrong?
0:12:18 > 0:12:23"They're doing something wrong if I'm not motivated to go and see it."
0:12:23 > 0:12:25I haven't got the answer to it.
0:12:25 > 0:12:30I wondered whether it was his sort of macho...
0:12:30 > 0:12:35You know, footballer thing that he couldn't be seen at a ballet.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38But he was quite philosophical and interesting about it.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45'I think what frightens people or puts people off on the whole
0:12:45 > 0:12:47'is that they don't know about ballet.'
0:12:51 > 0:12:54'In everyday life, look at any situation
0:12:54 > 0:12:56'and you will see a form of dance.'
0:12:56 > 0:13:00MUSIC: Swan Lake - Dance Of The Swans
0:13:27 > 0:13:29We are resetting at the moment for this evening.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32And we'll have three hours to run the whole thing for the first time.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35So the main emphasis is on the flying,
0:13:35 > 0:13:38the lighting and the costumes really at this stage.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Nicky wanted more gold in Act Three. I said no.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43No taste, darling. No taste.
0:13:43 > 0:13:49So Mike and I are coming in tonight at 9pm. And Jasper wants some extra
0:13:49 > 0:13:52gold leafing, Dutch metalling, put on.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55So, we're going to have quite a late night, I think.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57Still a bit orange, my love.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00That's white. That's actually white.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03We're going to put a correction filter in.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04Right. Good.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08'The whole look of the thing is very storybookish.'
0:14:08 > 0:14:11So we're trying to keep the lighting like that
0:14:11 > 0:14:13so when the baddie comes on it sort of goes green
0:14:13 > 0:14:15just like a kid's storybook.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18The ambassadors...
0:14:18 > 0:14:24The ambassadors should wear their costumes tonight if possible.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26The what?
0:14:26 > 0:14:31The ambassadors need to wear their costumes because...
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Darling, do we have money for the time?
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Unless they want to do it, I can't ask them.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39- I'll ask them. - You ask them. That's fine.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41As long as you ask, then it's all right.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47Off, off, off.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49SHE SCREAMS
0:14:49 > 0:14:51The left arm in front.
0:14:51 > 0:14:54Left arm in front of him, so that you're actually in front of him.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56At the moment, you're behind.
0:14:58 > 0:15:00Here's only got a 50-second change,
0:15:00 > 0:15:04so what we do is spray the harnesses black
0:15:04 > 0:15:08and they'll just go over him and he's all in black anyway.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11Designer harness. Wow!
0:15:11 > 0:15:15- So it won't look lumpy? - No, it won't, it won't.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17It may look lumpy in certain parts,
0:15:17 > 0:15:19but then why else do you come to the ballet?
0:15:31 > 0:15:34The amount of people that will come up to you and say,
0:15:34 > 0:15:35"But what's your other job?"
0:15:35 > 0:15:39And it's like, you know, they think maybe you work in Marks & Spencer's
0:15:39 > 0:15:429-5 and turn up here put some make-up on and do it.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45But you know, some people do have this stupid idea that
0:15:45 > 0:15:47that's how we live.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49You'll sit in the dressing room and go, "I can't do this tonight,
0:15:49 > 0:15:52"I haven't got the energy, I don't feel like it."
0:15:52 > 0:15:55But if you were injured and you couldn't do it,
0:15:55 > 0:15:59you'd be sitting there going, "I want to do it."
0:15:59 > 0:16:01It's that sort of thing.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15'The guy who choreographed it
0:16:15 > 0:16:18'obviously had an absolute hatred towards women.'
0:16:18 > 0:16:20It's just the length of it.
0:16:20 > 0:16:23You stand on one leg and then the next thing you got to do is
0:16:23 > 0:16:26jump off that same leg you've been standing on. And it's gone to sleep.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30We have to just stand in a position and not move.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Your calf muscles start to go.
0:16:32 > 0:16:35Your feet start to cramp up.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38And then you move another bit and it's like, "Oh, my God,
0:16:38 > 0:16:40"Get me off the stage!"
0:16:40 > 0:16:43You try and stand for, like, five minutes without moving.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46It's very difficult.
0:16:46 > 0:16:49Especially when you've got a light here that's making you hot,
0:16:49 > 0:16:51sweat starts to get in your eyes,
0:16:51 > 0:16:54you want to blink, you want to itch. So you want to sneeze.
0:16:54 > 0:16:58There's nothing you can do. You've just got to stand there.
0:16:58 > 0:17:02Phew, I don't know. I might ask you that question.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04What is it that I love about ballet?
0:17:04 > 0:17:06I don't know.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16After you've had a little break from dancing,
0:17:16 > 0:17:19it's a very daunting thought to go back to that.
0:17:19 > 0:17:24You think, "Oh, it's going to hurt and it's going to be so hard.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25"Yeah, forget it."
0:17:25 > 0:17:29But, for some reason, it becomes so satisfying after a while.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Excuse me interrupting. What does that feel like?
0:17:45 > 0:17:47- It feels pretty secure. - I'll come down later on
0:17:47 > 0:17:48and check you're all right.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51I've sewn it, but when you josh your head it still might come undone.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54Ballet wigs have to be lighter, they have to be smaller.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Opera wigs are usually quite large.
0:17:56 > 0:17:59And they can be quite heavy because the singer's going to sing,
0:17:59 > 0:18:01but they're not actually moving in the same way.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05They've also got to be very secure when they're pinned.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08If you're putting buns, ringlets, plaits or bows or anything on,
0:18:08 > 0:18:10they've got to be really, really secure
0:18:10 > 0:18:13because obviously the person's got to dance in them.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Jasper wants the plaits back at the side.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- Do they get sweaty? - Yes, very.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19They get very hot inside.
0:18:19 > 0:18:24And they go a little bit white sometimes because of the salt.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28That's why they have to be looked after and maintained properly
0:18:28 > 0:18:31and washed periodically because otherwise they rot.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34Play about with it. How it suits you.
0:18:34 > 0:18:37'Ladies and gentlemen, this is your Prologue beginners call.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40'Prologue beginners to the stage, please. Thank you.'
0:18:48 > 0:18:51Oh, gosh. I'm late!
0:19:05 > 0:19:09SHE PANTS
0:19:11 > 0:19:13It's going all right, actually.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15Better than I expected.
0:19:15 > 0:19:18I hope everything that has to go wrong goes wrong today
0:19:18 > 0:19:20and not next week. Excuse me!
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Oh! I can't talk!
0:19:29 > 0:19:30MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:19:34 > 0:19:37You know your bourree forward? It was lovely.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40And it started really nice and then started to break down.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42It was really dead right,
0:19:42 > 0:19:45and as you broke down it just started to wriggle around.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Act One, did you feel uncomfortable in anything?
0:19:47 > 0:19:51- Erm, just grey tights. - No, no!
0:19:51 > 0:19:55- We had them over there so that... - But then I'm left-handed.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57I thought that it should've been over this side.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59I mean, it looks lovely.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03It's just it needs one person an inch out and the other person behind.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07Everyone was saying, "No, surely it should be opposite from..."
0:20:07 > 0:20:09Or one person an inch and the other person half an inch
0:20:09 > 0:20:11and it's an inch-and-a-half and it looks like miles.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15On the left, this side. That side? That's what we did.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18- I believe that's my left. - OK. Yeah, sorry.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Did you give him a note about the cape?
0:20:20 > 0:20:23I mean, from one wing it's easier just to come on and you can see it.
0:20:23 > 0:20:24The ambassador's beard, yeah?
0:20:24 > 0:20:29You were right forward like this. It looks like you're like...
0:20:29 > 0:20:31- Do you want me without it? - No, you should have a beard.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33All the ambassadors should have a beard.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35ALL TALK AT ONCE
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Ladies, can we just do the curtain calls quickly just now? Sorry.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40And we'll try and get more of the other stuff...
0:20:40 > 0:20:44'What I've decided is just keep my cool because everything is late.'
0:20:44 > 0:20:46You're doing quite well.
0:20:46 > 0:20:49You think I'm doing quite well?
0:20:49 > 0:20:51I am doing extremely well
0:20:51 > 0:20:54because by now I should be completely hysterical.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56Paranoiac hysteric!
0:20:56 > 0:21:01I know that everybody's working very hard and doing it.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03We'll have it all on opening night. That I know.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Well, we better!
0:21:21 > 0:21:26If I've made a cock-up with this, I'm in serious trouble.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28Buenos Aires, here I come!
0:21:29 > 0:21:34Because, you know, these costumes cost a good 1,000 a go.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38I always knew there was something not quite right.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40I couldn't put my finger on it.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Couldn't put my finger on it
0:21:42 > 0:21:47until I saw in the first dress rehearsal that we had,
0:21:47 > 0:21:52I saw that what I'd done was there was just too much white onstage.
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Hazel's never done this either.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01The greatest bullshitters in town!
0:22:01 > 0:22:03THEY LAUGH
0:22:03 > 0:22:05I can believe it!
0:22:07 > 0:22:10I keep on having to remind myself
0:22:10 > 0:22:13that it's not what you're seeing up close.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17You're not seeing this up close. You're seeing this from a distance.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28We delivered the last costume about 6.30pm. It felt quite warm.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31when we finished blow-drying it with the hairdryer and ironing it,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34but I think there's a huge element of dampness still there.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37I feel sorry for the dancer who's going to have to put it on.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40Because it won't be comfortable at all!
0:22:42 > 0:22:46'Ladies and gentlemen, this is your 15 minutes call. 15 minutes, please.'
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- Excuse me. - Oh!
0:22:52 > 0:22:55And three change. Thank you very much. Oh, sorry.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57One? I've got two.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00I think I'll have some more of these.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04And then I would like...
0:23:10 > 0:23:12..Firebird.
0:23:13 > 0:23:15I'm sure I'm not off to the side.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23- Yeah? - Is everyone decent?
0:23:23 > 0:23:24Yeah.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Look, I told you about them, didn't I?
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Oh!
0:23:35 > 0:23:39'I want to defect back to Russia just before every opening night.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41'I don't want to be here, I want to be somewhere else.'
0:23:44 > 0:23:46ORCHESTRA PLAYS
0:24:09 > 0:24:12BUZZING AND SPRAY-PAINTING
0:24:56 > 0:25:02STAGE MUSIC OVER INTERCOM
0:25:02 > 0:25:04APPLAUSE
0:25:07 > 0:25:09You've got blue fingers.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12It was a navy blue hand just earlier.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16Yeah, we've ordered a bolt.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18MUSIC DROWNS SPEECH
0:26:16 > 0:26:18How are the feet bearing up?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20Oh, they were absolute agony in Act Two,
0:26:20 > 0:26:22but we've only got one act to go, and then it's all over.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26One more act to go, then we all get drunk.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22WOMAN: It was wonderful. Absolutely fantastic.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26MAN: The dancing was first-class. Erm, colourful.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Really, really entertaining.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29GIRL: I thought the swans were beautiful.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32WOMAN: It was wonderful. Wonderful. Very emotional.
0:27:32 > 0:27:33BOY: Well, it was OK.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36It was a bit boring, but it's a lot better if you're at the front.
0:27:36 > 0:27:37MAN: This is our first time at a ballet.
0:27:37 > 0:27:41I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience, the music and the dance.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44GIRL: I liked the bit with the swans.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47They were like birds.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49MAN: Well, it is a bit arty-farty, but it's actually great.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51When I told the boys at work I was coming,
0:27:51 > 0:27:53I was virtually destroyed with laughter.
0:27:53 > 0:27:55But I'll definitely come back.
0:27:55 > 0:27:57Really, really enjoyed it. Really chuffed.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03You don't do it like that, you do it like that!
0:28:05 > 0:28:08Oh, I don't feel anything anymore.
0:28:08 > 0:28:12Just on stage you're in pain, but after it you forget it all.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20There's always a sort of sense of sadness
0:28:20 > 0:28:23when you've finished something,
0:28:23 > 0:28:27when you've been working so intently with so many people.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30And, you know, you're leaving them behind.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33Because you get very fond of them.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36You know, I love being here.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38I enjoy it very much.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47Would you do it again?
0:28:47 > 0:28:51Oh, yes. If I got asked, I'd be back in a minute... Yeah.