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  Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Plot and that sub Bloomberg business flash. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Tchaikovsky's timeless score resounding at the Boston Opera House. Why well,
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  Speaker 1: because Boston's Ballet performs Swan Lake as no other ballet does.
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  Speaker 1: Here to tell us more, as the artistic director of
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Ballet and the Boston Ballet School, Miko nissan
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  Speaker 1: In Nko, thanks very much for being here. We're broadcasting,
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  Speaker 1: of course, from the Boston Convention Exhibition UH Center. This
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  Speaker 1: is just as a pro you to tonight's Greater Boston
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  Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce meeting. Thank you. Go ahead tell me
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about you, and maybe you could tell
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit about the creation of your version
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  Speaker 1: of Swan Lake, which has broken I think just about
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  Speaker 1: every record there is to break, uh in a dance
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  Speaker 1: in in ballet in Boston. Well, basically, my my biggest
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  Speaker 1: reasonable why creating a Swan Lake. There's been so many
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  Speaker 1: changes and nobody anymore remembers what is real what is not,
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  Speaker 1: So I sort of went back to the basics. This
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  Speaker 1: ballot has been incredibly successful for a long time and
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  Speaker 1: try to bring that forth for today's people. I e.
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  Speaker 1: Preserved some of the absolute masterpieces that are in place
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  Speaker 1: and then just thrown stuff that has gripped in there
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  Speaker 1: over the years and tried to refresh on the production. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you are are making your mark the Boston
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  Speaker 1: Ballet in more ways than one. Uh. You are starting
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  Speaker 1: a partnership with William Forsyth, who is a famous noteworthy
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  Speaker 1: American choreographer. UM used to like the George balancing of
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Ballet. I don't think anybody can be George balancing,
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  Speaker 1: Butchers balancing. You know, I'm having a great time and
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  Speaker 1: we're doing things. We're trying to be the ballet company
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  Speaker 1: of the future. And of course this new partnership with
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  Speaker 1: William forsythe for Boston, it's amazing. It's a dream come
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  Speaker 1: true for me. He's the biggest name in our industry
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  Speaker 1: right now, and he will change the company. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he develops dancers to the next level in within themselves.
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  Speaker 1: They will dance even small egg better after he has
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  Speaker 1: worked with them. And I had that experience personally, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to share it with my dancers, and I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's simply remarkable and I can's just the way
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  Speaker 1: to get get started on the partnership. NKO. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: the word in your industry and I thought that was
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  Speaker 1: very interesting and if there is a way, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: can provide us with some anecdotes based on your own
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  Speaker 1: past and your history. Tell us a little bit about
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  Speaker 1: you and how you have managed to accept work and
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  Speaker 1: work with and utilize the concept that this is in
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  Speaker 1: an industry you have to attract customers, attract people to
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  Speaker 1: the ballet absolutely. Um My background is of course I
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  Speaker 1: come from Finland. I was twenty years of professional dancer,
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  Speaker 1: was a principal dancer at the San Francisco Ballet. Um
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  Speaker 1: moved into the management after that, artistic management, and I
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  Speaker 1: warned the head of the executive director several times. So
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a place where you have to allow art
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  Speaker 1: to take place. Every financial decision is artistic decision. Every
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  Speaker 1: artistic decisions the financial decision. It's creating that and having
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  Speaker 1: the thermometer to know where are we as a society
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  Speaker 1: today moving forward, you know, being the ballet company of
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  Speaker 1: the future, not interested being a museum church, living theater
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  Speaker 1: for us, for today's people to be that relevant and
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  Speaker 1: that is what So are we think challenging about when
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  Speaker 1: you think of your repertoire and when you partner with
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  Speaker 1: someone like like Bill forsythe is so I'm Lake, it's
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  Speaker 1: a classic. It's beautiful. Now you can do the Boston
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  Speaker 1: Ballet Swan Lake version. Uh, but how do you make that?
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  Speaker 1: How you balance a new work, perhaps in a new
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  Speaker 1: direction for the Boston Ballet and please your audience is
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  Speaker 1: still needs to feel connected to the tradition, to the history. Yeah, well, um,
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  Speaker 1: we have to remember small like what was the revolution
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  Speaker 1: or a new thing hundred plus years ago. It's about
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  Speaker 1: paying the way to the future. But it's it's creating
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  Speaker 1: all these different classical ballots, neoclassical and contemporary work at
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  Speaker 1: the same time. Um, it's being inclusive. Everybody is welcome,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it's not just to admire things from
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  Speaker 1: the from a distance, but really do be inside of
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  Speaker 1: these productions as an audience member. They are as important
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  Speaker 1: as the art on stage. So there's still time to
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  Speaker 1: see Boston Ballet before the season's over. Correct, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: there's three more weeks ago. I was gonna say to
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  Speaker 1: be just played a little bit of Tchaikovsky and that,
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  Speaker 1: of course is a wonderful musical allusion to the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it is being performed at the Boston Opera House
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  Speaker 1: through made correct. Yes, and there's there's from Tchaikovsky to
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  Speaker 1: Miles Davis. The mixed program Mirrors features music by Miles
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  Speaker 1: Davis the Bitches Brew, which is quite a piece of music,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. And it's a Karl Armatchuel premier. And
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  Speaker 1: to experience that music with what she has done, it's
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  Speaker 1: just so unique and special. Niko Neyson and thank you
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  Speaker 1: so very much for joining us well conclude this interview
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  Speaker 1: with him the artistic director from Boston Ballet, listening to
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  Speaker 1: Chaikovsky's Swan Lake being performed right now this week for
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