- My name is Andrew Veyette,
and here I'm dancing
a principal role
in Justin Peck's ballet,
"Everywhere We Go."
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I dance with Sterling Hyltin
in this,
and I've never danced the part
with anybody else,
and it's kind of hard for me
to imagine
doing it with anybody else.
I always love throwing Sterling
as high as I can,
and she seems to go
another foot higher in shows
than she does in rehearsals.
Once you're on stage, you have
that little bit of extra
adrenaline from the music
and the audience and everything.
She just smiles
like it's not scary
to be 15 feet in the air.
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When I'm running upstage
right there,
Justin really wanted
that to be kind of cartoonish
and almost Flintstones' style
where I really
picked my knees up too much.
In rehearsal, it's really hard
to convince myself
to use the amount of energy
it would take to run like that.
But in the performance,
it just seems to
kind of come out
a little bit second nature.
Running into this block,
we basically have to jump
half a panel up
into a bent over B-plus,
which is just not easy to do,
and it's the only way
to get there on time.
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This is one of
my favorite pieces
of choreography
in the whole ballet.
To me, it looks like
a huge machine
with pistons going off
all over the place.
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Everything in his ballets
seem to involve
everybody all the time,
you know,
even the principals
are always working
with the soloists
and the corps
and everybody's in it together
to create this environment.
And this is probably one of
the best examples of that.
I miss, a lot of times,
what it was like
to be younger in the corps
and have
that sense of community.
I remember when he was starting
to choreograph this section,
he had started with the corps,
and I had just finished
the movement before,
and I was kind of dead
and exhausted on the ground,
and he goes, "Oh, yeah,
by the way,
you're gonna be
in this one too."
And I looked at him like,
"You're just
a mean-spirited person."
But I honestly
couldn't have been happier.
I can't imagine
doing this ballet
without being a part
of this section.
It really became
probably my favorite part.
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