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YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE? NOT LIKE THIS…

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Ivan Vasiliev from ilya kuznetsov on Vimeo.

There is a name being whispered conspiratorially around ballet circles at the moment.  That name is Ivan Vasiliev, or as the popular press is beginning to call him Rocket Man.  At just 21 he is the crown prince of the Bolshoi Ballet. Spartacus.

What is so special about him? Some would say his leonine grace on stage, others his fabulous looks.  Most, however, would agree that it his simply jaw dropping aerial brilliance that has struck audiences.   This boy can dance.  The jumps that he executes are so dazzling, the turns so punishing that even in rehearsals his ballet colleagues stop and applaud him.   

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2001: A SPACE FAIL

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“OPEN THE POD BAY DOORS, HAL….”

“HAL?   WHAT’S HAPPENING HAL….?”

“SORRY DAVE…..YOU’RE SREWED…”

“Ooohhhh shiiiiiitt……”

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was partially inspired by Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”. Clarke concurrently wrote the novel of the same name which was published soon after the film was released. The story deals with a series of encounters between humans and mysterious blackmonoliths that are apparently affecting human evolution, and a space voyage to Jupiter tracing a signal emitted by one such monolith found on the moon. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star as the two astronauts on this voyage, with Douglas Rain as the voice of the sentient computer HAL 9000 who has full control over their spaceship. The film is frequently described as an “epic film”, both for its length and scope, and for its affinity with classical epics.