Again, thank you so much for
joining us here on Idaho today.
You know ballet Sun Valley is
an amazing resource here in the
Gem State bringing some of the
best ballet companies in the
entire world right here to Idah.
And next week in the Dutch Natil
Ballet will be performing.
So we are lucky because being joined.
Joining us right now all the way to the Netherlands, we
actually have Flora Emmers with
the Dutch National Ballet floor.
It is so good to see you
this morning. How are you?
Thank you for having me.
I'm doing well. Thank you.
It is. This is an international
interview for us.
This is awesome. I You know wha?
Yes, I and I forgot my ballet s.
I am so sorry for.
I just bought my regular loafer.
No worries. I'll be
wearing them. Don't worry.
OK. You'll wear them for me. Thank you.
That means a lot. All right. So,
so for. I understand you've actually been
performing for a very long time, right?
Yes. Yes. I've been with the Duh
National Ballet now for 11 year.
So it's quite a while. Yeah.
Okay. And then what first inters
you into the art of ballet?
Well, it's actually a very cliche story.
I was a little girl going with my mom to
the Swan Lake Big Swan Lake, Big Classic.
And I fell in love and I was like, oh,
mommy, I want to be a ballerina.
And she's like, yeah, sure,
you'll be a ballerina.
But she put me on class and after a while,
my teacher said, well,
maybe she has some talents.
You should do something with th.
And that's how it started.
And the bars,
the ball started rolling and.
Now we're here
and now you're going to
be coming to Sun Valley.
So for so many of our viewers
that maybe have never made the
trek to Sun Valley to see this,
what Works will be performing
at Ballet Sun Valley.
Well, we'll be bringing definity
a lot of work by Hans Forman.
He's a Dutch choreographer and l
be turning 91 in one month. So he's a.
Very old legend here and he's me
about 150 ballets in his school career,
so it's quite a lot.
He's world famous and you right,
you see five Thongos will be
bringing solo I will be dancingn
Frank Bridge with music by Benjn
Britton and it's made in 2005.
It's one of his latest ballets
that he created.
And yeah, so that will bring
and on the second night because
we'll be performing two nights
on Saturday and on Sunday.
Well, also dance works by Willim
Forsythe and also Vipki Karzma o
is a female Dutch choreographer.
So that's very special actually.
And home grounds and also some classics
like Corsair and Grandpa classi.
Wow. I could listen to you talk
and say those so many times.
That is so. I feel so relaxed.
I feel like I want to be there. Front row.
That's just amazing.
Yes, you're very welcome to Joy. Absolutely.
Is this your first time
performing in the United States?
It will be, yes. And I am very excited.
I've been to the States just for
holiday, but never to perform.
So it's a it's a first for me.
I'm very, very thrilled for wonderful.
And then I imagine then your first time
too in Sun Valley, ID. Of all places.
It is. It is. I I honestly
didn't hear of it before,
but then I checked it out onlin.
It looks stunning. It
is. It's absolutely gorgeous.
You are certainly in or a
treat that's for certain.
It's beautiful.
Do you have a favorite number
that you like to perform to
or a favorite move or what?
What is something
that I guess is one of your fave
parts about being in in ballet?
Well, for me it's more the whole show.
You know you have sometimes
you have these shows.
That everything just works.
You have your your great dance partner,
the music's on point, the light,
the costumes, the audience.
Everything just comes together
and there's just this,
this magic that happens.
Time stands still,
especially nowadays with TikTokd
everything that goes so incredibly fast.
At that moment,
no one's on their phone and just
enjoying being in the present and that
magical moments I just love the most.
Oh, so well described. I love t.
Oh, by far, right. But I I'm
so glad you had mentioned it.
Like, you know, disconnecting
from all these distractions that
we have around and actually just
being present in the moment and
appreciating the art and the bey
and the creation in front of yo.
Right. Like just just really engaging
and connecting that human eleme.
Right, The human element.
That's it. That's exactly it.
And I don't know with how many
hundreds of people you're all
focused at this one moment.
And it's literally it's pure ma.
Wonderful and and and tell us to floor,
you know, what do you hope the
audience gets from this perform?
What do you, what do you hope they take away?
I hope actually that they
also feel that magic.
I do think Councilman and
his ballets are trademark.
It's a Dutch trademark,
an Amsterdam trademark.
We're very proud to be dancing s
work and he's someone that realy
creates that that that magic on stage.
He has very sensitive feeling about lighting.
He has a great feeling about costume design.
It's very simple, it's very ele.
So it's purely about dance actu.
Like George Bonaschin always sa,
it's just about the steps and te
dances create that magic togeth.
So I hope that we make good
work and the audience goes.
With that feeling.
Oh, it's going to be awesome.
Well, we're so excited to see y.
You can see right there,
ballet sunvalley.org is
where people can get tickets.
And got to tell you,
there's a coffee places here in
Idaho called Dutch Brothers.
You're going
to have to go there and
tell us what you think.
I was going to ask. Restaurant .
Well, there you go. Yeah.
It's called Dutch Brothers.
And so, you know, you being from
the Netherlands, you can tell
us how it is. OK Oh, my
goodness. Exactly. We'll do.
I'll do. Thank you so much for h
a pleasure. All right. Thank yo.