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"Former
ballerinas have been recruited as the main attraction at a new London club
where they will dance naked to classical music" (Cathernine Milner,
The Sunday Telegraph,UK, November 1, 1998).
"Sophisticats, which is due to open in Marylebone later this
month, is staffed by classically-trained ballerinas who can earn twice as
much dancing in the nude as they could in more conventional dance. David
Simones, who runs the club, said that he auditioned more than 70 classically-trained
dancers from all around the world before choosing seven of the best to star
in his show" (Cathernine Milner, The Sunday Telegraph,UK, November
1, 1998).
"When the club opens they will dance naked to Wagner, Mozart
and a selection of operatic highlights in addition to the more common night-club
musical far of music such as Edith Piaf's La Vie en Rose. 'This will
be a very artistically challenging show and will stir the emotions,' Mr.
Simones said. 'I love ballet; I love opera; I love artistic dance. The girls
are very well educated and well trained'" (Cathernine Milner, The
Sunday Telegraph,UK, November 1, 1998).
"Mr. Simones has employed Emma Smith and Fiona Kay - both of
whom have had a classical ballet training - to choreograph the sow in addition
to performing in it. Smith, 25, who in keeping with the cat theme of the
club has adopted the name "Ginger", trained as a ballerina with
the Northern Ballet School before travelling abroard in search of work.
(Cathernine Milner, The Sunday Telegraph,UK, November 1, 1998).
She said she is delighted to have landed her new job. ' There are
so few jobs you have to be open-minded and realistic,' she said. 'Dancers
have a very short shelf-life and you have to think about the future.' Her
new job, she said, will allow her to make a career as a 'soloist' and allow
her personality to 'shine through' and also give her more free time and
pay"(Cathernine Milner, The Sunday Telegraph,UK, November 1, 1998).
"'I worked in Paris with a teacher from the Paris Opera but
realized that I didn't want to work in a corps de ballet earning
just 300 pounds a week.' Doing the show she will earn 450 pounds a night
for doing just two half-hour performances'" (Catherine Milner, The
Sunday Telegraph,UK, November 1, 1998).
"Kay, whose stage name is "Persia", trained at the
Urdang Academy of Ballet in London. 'Definitely the ideal aim I had was
to do classical ballet, but it was so tough to get into - you have to be
totally single minded,' she said. 'Basically I wanted a life. Most of my
contemporaries from college have stopped dancing. I think I'm the only one
who is still going,' Kay said" (Cathernine Milner, The Sunday Telegraph,UK,
November 1, 1998).
"She described the 300 pounds earned by dancers in the corps
of the Royal Ballet as 'abysmal'. She added: 'Considering all the work they
are putting in they should be getting 800 pounds a week'" (Catherine
Milner, The Sunday Telegraph,UK, November 1, 1998).
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