"Champions need to be given winning combinations!" Soloist of Alla Dukhova's TODES Dance Theater Pavel Volosov talks about the master class

Soloist of Alla Dukhova's TODES Dance Theater Pavel Volosov held a master class at the recovery camp at the Academy.

The dancer talked about the main goal of the class.

"Our task was to open them up a little emotionally. I’m sure it worked out, because by the end there were already had both smiles and energy. When we were traveling, we thought that the choreography was complicated, we would simplify it as we went, and we looked at each other like that. And when we arrived, we started giving the first eight, we realized that the girls were really taking the information and grasping the whole choreography. We decided not to change anything and to work more on the emotional background, which they did an excellent job with," Pavel said. 

He also shared the details of working with the athletes from the Russian national team and from the Academy.

"We were told that there would be champions. And champions always get the number one task, so we counted on the fact that champions should be given winning combinations, champion’s material," the dancer said. 

He also noted how dance and gymnastics are similar. 

"In both choreography and gymnastics, discipline is the most important thing. It’s both here and there. Stretching — both here and there, the form. The girls were just, as it seemed to me, a little bit reserved due to the fact that sport is a slightly different direction," he said.