14 Results in the "La Valse" category
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"Shall we have a meal together on your birthday?" It was early April, about a week before Sasya's birthday, when Karel made this unexpected suggestion. Sasya's eyes widened in surprise. "A... a meal...?" Sasya, who hadn't celebrated his birthday with anyone for a long time, stammered. "Yes. If you already have plans to celebrate it with your friends, we can postpone my turn." "No! I don't have any plans!" Sasya denied hurriedly, feeling touched. At the same time, he recalled feeling a bit…-
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February 4 To: Karel Clemen tch Hello, Mr. Clementch. I am Alexandre Shchedrin, but everyone calls me Sasya. How you writre it in Cyrilyc? Александр Щедрин! Is it difficult? Just call me Sasya Shchedrin. After seeing you at the party, I found it fun and was happy. I was very glad to takes a photo with the ballet star Romashina. Thank you for being kind to me and giving me your business card then. Sponsurs have a lot of money, thank you for giving that money to…
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The daily routine of Sasya Shchedrin, a second-year student at the Upper School of the New York City Ballet's affiliated ballet school, which has the beautiful Opera House as its performance venue, is highly repetitive. In the morning, he buries himself in a bundle of white blankets, blocking his ears and wriggling with groans of agony until his alarm rings three times at five minute intervals. If Sasya doesn't leave the bed on his own even after the alarm rings three times, Karel would come and lift…
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LV Chapter 4.2
He took the first step with his hands in his pockets. Sasya noticed that his palm gripping the bag strap was slightly damp with sweat. Strangely, his vision became blurry with each step. Sasya looked up. The hotel where he was staying was less than 500 meters from the Museum of Modern Art, and the hotel immediately came into view. It was a distance he could have walked alone without being escorted. He wondered why Karel had offered to take him back. Was it because he was only…-
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The first thing Sasya felt upon opening his eyes the next morning was discomfort. The phone's ringtone drilling into his eardrums like it was trying to pierce them, an inexplicable stickiness underneath, heaviness and swelling in his body from eating too much the night before and going to sleep without stretching... Sasya first reached out and grabbed the phone that was rolling around by the pillow. Then, frowning, he looked at the screen. What he initially thought was an alarm turned out to be a call…
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LV Chapter 3.2
“Did you hire a babysitter for the night with this money?” Two days later, George arrived at the hotel room. He held out several crisp bills to Sasya. Sasya didn't understand what he was talking about at first, but then counted the money and realized what he meant. It was $525. "No!" Sasya firmly exclaimed. "Mr. Clements said to tell you that people can't be bought with money." "No, that's not it!" Sasya shook his head in frustration. "A thief stole money from Mr. Clements’ wallet! I…-
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Sasya, crouched in his hideout under the sofa, opened his eyes at the faint sound of a mechanical device operating from far away. He then focused his keen hearing on the strange sounds outside the door. A whirring sound... slicing through the air smoothly and quietly. After a moment, Sasya identified the source of the weak noise. It was the sound of an elevator rising at high speed. Sasya pressed his phone to check the current time. It was almost 1 AM. Normally, he would have been asleep by…
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LV Chapter 2.2
Sasya didn’t refuse George this time when he said he would come to pick him up. The reason was simply that he might be able to ride that wonderful car he had taken with Karel one more time. But George had come alone by taxi this time. As he got into the common yellow cab, Sasya disappointedly stared out the window. "We're going to look at a house now." "A house?" Sasya asked loudly in surprise. George nodded. He was about to ask how much he would need to pay, but stopped himself, thinking…-
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Sitting down in the entryway to put on his shoes, Sasya looked up the address on Google Maps that Karel's secretary had provided. When he carefully examined the map, he saw Times Square nearby. He figured that if he went near the station, he could find the foundation office that George had mentioned. 'I'll come pick you up.' At the end of their call, George had said that, wanting to meet formally to explain the proposal in detail. However, Sasya refused. He felt he could find his way on his own, and…
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LV Chapter 1.3
After the sponsors left, Sasya went straight back to the dormitory and shut himself in his room. Not only did he skip lunch, but he also missed all his afternoon academic classes, pas de deux class, and character dance class. "I haven't seen Sasya around. Did anyone hear if he was sick? Does anyone know?" At Olga's question, the ballet mistress for the afternoon classes, the students just remained silent and looked at each other's faces. Everyone here had seen with their own eyes how Sasya had been…-
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