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ROBERT E DUNN

child desires

4/24/2022

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Why Russian children still love the ballet

CULTURE, FEB 14, 2015, By MARIA FEDORISHINA, SPECIAL TO RBTH 

“According to a 2013 survey by children’s charitable fund, Deti Mira, 16.4 percent of Russian children aged 4-6 dream of an artistic profession, including the ballet.”
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“In other countries, Russian classical ballet is often associated with the leading Russian theaters, the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky, where the dancers are mostly graduates of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. It is practically impossible to prepare for entrance to such institutions because natural attributes – such as flexibility, being able to rise and jump, and a good ear for music – play such a leading role. Students are subject to an intense screening process.
 
“About 98 percent of children study ballet for themselves,” says Yulya Subbotovskaya.


https://www.rbth.com/arts/2015/02/14/why_russian_children_still_love_the_ballet_43709.html​
 
Ballet comes in second behind sport for Russian children. An American parent might send his 14-year-old son into football, and a Russian parent might have sent him into ballet school three or four years earlier.​ These boys are 16.

It is hard for a parent to know what his or her child desires. Alexander, my little 8-year-old genius, excels in reading and has an immense imagination. His mother told me that he thinks differently from us. Our thoughts follow a straight line, and his thoughts resemble vectors.
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Frank D and Nykamp DQ, “An introduction to vectors.” From Math Insight.
http://mathinsight.org/vector_introduction

At least, that is what we think is going on inside his little head. All I know is that I must keep up with his way of thinking, which is so different from my own.
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Jeff
4/27/2022 09:47:09 am

A genius today is living in a knowledge paradise, at 8 years old, wow, what to do with that intelligence. Brings us to the Grecian pondering of the good life. How about Baden Powell, a British soldier, with the mind of a Greek. "Be prepared", the Boy Scout motto, doesn't mean to be ready to survive in the woods, don't forget your matches. It means "Be prepared to die " by living the good life, virtuous, full of action, life, vigor. So when you are on your death bed you can look back without regrets and be prepared to die. Pretty cool stuff. Too bad he left out Jesus and dying in a state of grace. But not bad for a Greek mind.

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Robert E. Dunn link
4/27/2022 02:15:12 pm

I looked him up.

Lieutenant-General and 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), highly decorated British Army officer, writer, and storyteller, was founder and first Chief Scout of the worldwide Scout Movement and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the first worldwide Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement.

Thank you, Jeff, for directing me to him.

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