WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.181 --> 00:00:02.598 (soft music) 2 00:00:05.130 --> 00:00:06.390 I feel like ballet, 3 00:00:06.390 --> 00:00:08.490 although it's so popular mainstream wise, 4 00:00:08.490 --> 00:00:10.680 I think it's underrated in the world of dance. 5 00:00:10.680 --> 00:00:12.720 Classical ballet especially feels like something 6 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:15.090 that is just an art form that should be appreciated. 7 00:00:15.090 --> 00:00:17.490 And even though it's really hard and really strenuous, 8 00:00:17.490 --> 00:00:19.560 I think the finished product that people get to see 9 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:21.120 and get to enjoy every holiday season 10 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:23.100 is something that I just wanted to bring to life here, 11 00:00:23.100 --> 00:00:24.030 at Northeastern. 12 00:00:24.030 --> 00:00:26.310 I basically started this club on the idea that 13 00:00:26.310 --> 00:00:28.290 I feel like there's kind of like a fork in the road 14 00:00:28.290 --> 00:00:30.330 when it comes to doing ballet professionally. 15 00:00:30.330 --> 00:00:31.890 After you graduate high school, 16 00:00:31.890 --> 00:00:33.570 it kind of ends in terms of your career, 17 00:00:33.570 --> 00:00:36.360 unless you're gonna go pre-professional or join a company. 18 00:00:36.360 --> 00:00:39.270 When I got to Northeastern, I was fine for a year, 19 00:00:39.270 --> 00:00:41.070 and then around my second year I started feeling 20 00:00:41.070 --> 00:00:43.710 the calling of wanting to do dance again. 21 00:00:43.710 --> 00:00:45.180 So I thought, what if I could bring 22 00:00:45.180 --> 00:00:46.860 the Nutcracker to Northeastern? 23 00:00:46.860 --> 00:00:49.860 So I started the club in the summer of my freshman year, 24 00:00:49.860 --> 00:00:51.300 Noreste ballet company was born 25 00:00:51.300 --> 00:00:53.700 on the idea that it was ballet for everybody. 26 00:00:53.700 --> 00:00:57.000 I think our club is different because we are all inclusive. 27 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.910 We host no-cut auditions, so everybody who does audition 28 00:00:59.910 --> 00:01:01.020 and comes to our audition 29 00:01:01.020 --> 00:01:03.270 with the wanting to be in our production will get a role. 30 00:01:03.270 --> 00:01:05.010 It's something that's for everybody 31 00:01:05.010 --> 00:01:07.170 and we try to put inclusivity at the forefront. 32 00:01:07.170 --> 00:01:09.870 We're genuinely a classical ballet company with no barriers. 33 00:01:09.870 --> 00:01:11.730 We take anybody and everybody 34 00:01:11.730 --> 00:01:14.700 who's willing to put their heads and feet into it. 35 00:01:14.700 --> 00:01:17.010 We're here to let people live out their dreams 36 00:01:17.010 --> 00:01:19.230 of always wanting to be a ballet dancer, but never could, 37 00:01:19.230 --> 00:01:21.030 or never had the ability to go professional. 38 00:01:21.030 --> 00:01:22.740 We wanna give you the full experience 39 00:01:22.740 --> 00:01:24.540 of being a ballet dancer here at Northeastern. 40 00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:27.120 I think ballet is tranquil. 41 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:29.520 I feel like it brings me like serenity in my life. 42 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:32.880 I am so busy all the time outside of ballet 43 00:01:32.880 --> 00:01:35.850 with my major and my co-ops working at a law firm. 44 00:01:35.850 --> 00:01:39.270 I feel like I have to live life such a go, go, go pace. 45 00:01:39.270 --> 00:01:41.370 So when I'm able to go to the studio 46 00:01:41.370 --> 00:01:44.010 or work with my e-board or help choreograph 47 00:01:44.010 --> 00:01:47.040 or think of costumes, it is serenity to me. 48 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:48.720 When I'm gone from Northeastern, when I'm graduated, 49 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:51.150 that this club continues on the roots that it was founded on 50 00:01:51.150 --> 00:01:53.700 and that we're able to bring bigger productions 51 00:01:53.700 --> 00:01:54.876 to the school 52 00:01:54.876 --> 00:01:56.580 and bring more people to come see the performances. 53 00:01:56.580 --> 00:01:58.050 I hope that Noreste Ballet Company 54 00:01:58.050 --> 00:02:00.291 continues to go in the direction it's going. 55 00:02:00.291 --> 00:02:02.791 (soft music)