V–A–C Sreda online magazine continues its three-month programme dedicated to air in art and culture.
In this episode, we discuss air in ballet. What sets classical ballet apart from contemporary ballet? Is it true that dancers don’t breathe on stage? And what exactly is “singing with the arms”?
V–A–C Sreda editor Maxim Shibaev discussed these and other questions with Olga Ugarova, an art historian and the author of the VeryBallet Telegram channel, and Anastasia Smirnova, a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre.