At noon on Saturday, Ron flew to Los Angeles on a drop-in transport plane. It's just that the military airport is quite remote, and after the plane landed, it took him another two and a half hours to get to the city. At this time, it was already about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and Ron first came to his reserved hotel, put his luggage away, and got the tickets for the ballet performance at 6 o'clock in the evening from the lobby, and hurried out.

At the door of the theater, Ron saw a large poster on which the actor playing the prince was holding Nadya high. Ron glanced at the poster, and couldn't help but feel a little jealous in his heart.

Probably because there was still a lot of time before the show started, when Ron walked into the theater, there were only a few people in it. Ron found his seat and sat down, a nice seat, in the middle of the sixth row, not far away, just right for the show.

After more than ten minutes, the number of people who came in gradually increased, and it seemed that it was very close to the start of the performance. At this time, a tall young man sat down next to Ron. Ron himself is more than one meter eight meters tall, and this person, even if he sits down, is almost half a head taller than Ron, and he is afraid that he will be two meters tall when he stands up. At this time, the lights in the theater dimmed, and Ron looked at the glow-in-the-dark flight watch on his wrist, it was already six o'clock, and it seemed that the show was about to officially begin.

~一~本~Read~ The curtain of the novel ybdu slowly opened, and the music sounded, this song Ron was very familiar with, it was the "Candy Fairy Waltz" of "The Walnut Machine". In the past, when Nadya was in a good mood, she would often hum this cheerful and lively tune. To the sound of music, all kinds of sweets appear and dance to the music.

"This is the Candy Fairy, this is the Arabic Dance - Coffee, well, this is the Chinese Dance - Tea, and then the Russian Dance - Trepak." Ron watched and countered it with his knowledge of ballet. "Ah, Nadya is out, she dances so well, it's like an elf ......"

At this time, the guy sitting next to Ron suddenly became excited, and he stood up and raised his hand that looked like a fishing rod and waved it towards the stage.

"Hey, what are you doing!" The guy sitting behind the guy was not satisfied. This damn tall man sitting straight in front of him had already affected him watching the performance, and now he actually stood up and waved his hand, which still makes people watch?

The protest behind made the young man restrain a little, he sat down embarrassedly, and turned back and explained in a low voice: "I'm sorry, I forgot my shape, my girlfriend is ...... up there"

Ron noticed that as the young man stood up and waved, Anna, who played the Candy Fairy, stomped her foot hard - the Trepak dance music was cheerful and unrestrained, with intense dynamics and a strong sense of rhythmic dynamics, and there were already a lot of sounds of stomping to beats. But Anna's stomping seemed a little too loud.

Nadya, who was dancing, was affected, first she saw the tall one, she turned her head to smile at Anna in the middle of the dance, and then jumped high to the beat, a pair of jade feet snapped in the air, and then the crane, the prince of the Nutcracker, lifted her high again and spun around the stage. Nadya took advantage of this opportunity to look at Anna's tall lover again, but she didn't want to see a familiar figure beside him.

Ron saw Nadya's eyes looking this way, and he quietly raised his hands to his chest to form a loving image for Nadya. Apparently, Nadya saw his movements—and Ron saw that Nadya's eyes were sparkling, like bright stars.

The prince put Nadya down, and Nadya spun rapidly in the cheerful music, and her dancing was so graceful, the American enthusiasm and the Russian subtle low back were perfectly blended in her body at this moment. Ever since he was dating Nadya, Ron has often gone to see Nadya's performances. After watching more, Ron, who didn't know much about the art of ballet, gradually understood a little more. In the past, although Nadya's performances were in place, they often felt too restrictive, and Ulanova's flavor was too much, but now, Ron felt that at least in this dance, Nadya broke through some of the things that had limited her in the past and danced her own spirit.

Although there were not many people watching the ballet—a quarter of the seats in the theater were still empty—there were not many people who knew about ballet, and Nadya's performance immediately touched them. When the scene was over, they gave the warmest applause.

The full "Nutcracker" is very long, so in general, everyone has more time to act in the clips. For example, this time, only the scene of "Candy Mountain" was performed. In fact, this is not uncommon in China or abroad, Kong Shangren's "Peach Blossom Fan" was written until the end of the 10s of the 21st century, and the opera "The Ring of the Nibelon (River Crab)" by Hitler's favorite composer Wagner was never performed in its entirety - even during the Hitler period.

According to the program list, after this clip is finished, there will be an after-show. Nadya will perform a solo dance, The Death of the Swan. This arrangement was originally a remedy for the fear that Nadya and the American actors would not work well together. Unlike "The Nutcracker", which requires the cooperation of many people, in solo dance, Nadya's level is easier to play.

"The Death of the Swan" is the most classic ballet solo. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the famous Russian ballet dancer Anna?? Pavlova was invited by the Petersburg Royal Opera House to perform a solo dance at a concert held in the Noble Guild. The music is based on the thirteenth piece of the Carnival of the Animals suite by the French composer Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), the Swan for cello and piano. Since ballet works at that time often used "Swan" as the title, the choreographer Mihai ?? Fokine changed it to "The Death of the Swan" to distinguish it.

Today, the choreography, which took only five or six minutes at the time, has become a symbol of the new Russian ballet, which has been performed by countless actors, and Nadya has tried it more than once before.

But now, Ron is a little worried about Nadya's performance: Nadya has just made an epiphany breakthrough, which is gratifying, but this breakthrough has not yet settled down, and it is not stable. If it was before the breakthrough, Nadya danced decently, although it couldn't be compared with those real masters, but it would definitely not be a mess. But now, between the rules of the past and the breakthrough of the present, Nadya has no such stability, and she may dance better, or she may be completely messed up by the entanglement of old habits and new ideas.

Moreover, in terms of style, "The Nutcracker" and "The Death of the Swan" are also very different. The clip "Candy Hill" in "The Nutcracker" is full of joy and fun. "The Death of a Swan" is completely different, it depicts a dying swan longing to regain its wings, struggling alone on the calm surface of the lake, and finally dying silently, to symbolize the tragic spirit of human beings in real life against death and fate. "The Death of a Swan" is elegant and heavy and tragic, and "The Nutcracker" are completely polar.

However, it is obviously impossible to change the program list now. Taking advantage of the intermission, Ron got up and walked backstage. The tall man beside him followed.

"You must be General Ron, right?" The tall man asked.

"Yes, you are?" Ron wasn't wearing a military uniform at this point, and he didn't recognize the man.

"Robert?? Hughes. The man held out his hand to him, "I heard Anna mention you, and when I saw Nadya smiling at you, I guessed that you must be General Ron." ”

Ron took the man's hand, which was large, with thick joints and no flesh on the palm.

A staff member tries to stop Ron, and Robert steps up. The staff member was obviously familiar with him, and after they whispered a few words, the staff member let Ron look at him with envy as he opened the way.

Backstage is hectic and the actors are busy removing their makeup. Perhaps because Robert's height was too conspicuous, Anna saw Robert and Ron from afar. She happily pulled Nadya, who hadn't had time to change her clothes, and ran over:

"You've surprised us Nadya! Why didn't you say a word beforehand...... You idiot, you always like to look foreign in public, look at how good that move of Ron is. As she spoke, Anna mimicked Ron's movements. Then she shoved Nadya, who was about to pretend to be annoyed, into Ron's arms.

"Okay, I won't take up your time, hurry up, it's your show soon!"

Ron hugged Nadya, and Nadya struggled slightly, and when she saw that she couldn't get out, she stopped moving, but buried her head deep in Ron's arms.

"Nadya, you danced so well today!" Ron cupped Nadya's little face with both hands, stared into her eyes and said, "At least in this clip, you've crossed over from your old self. I'm so proud of you. I never thought my Nadya could be so beautiful! My ugly duckling has turned into a white swan. ”

"Was I ugly before?" Nadya seemed a little upset and furrowed her eyebrows slightly.

"No, of course not." Ron continued to stare into her big eyes, "It's just not like tonight, Nadya, you don't know, you're so beautiful tonight. Ron paused, and he saw a mist over Nadya's large, shiny eyes.

"Hmph, you finally know to come and see me! Did you know that every time ......" Nadya stopped, her shoulders twitched, and tears that glistened like diamonds welled up from her eyes.

"I know, baby!" Ron, whispering, lowered his head, ready to kiss the tears from her cheeks.

Just then, a voice shouted, "Nadya, come and change your costume!" It's time to play! ”

As if she had woken up from a dream, Nadya jerked free from Ron's arms, wiped the tears from her face and responded, "Got it, come right now!" ”

Then she turned around and smiled at Ron as bright as the new sun after the rain, so much so that Ron felt that the tears on her face that had not yet had time to wipe away reflected a halo of color.

"Ron, my darling, don't worry about me!" Nadya said, "Let's go back to the audience." My next dance will be even more exciting! ”