interview OZ 09/02/2006
Hamburg - Ilka Groenewold shines. Your dark circles fall on the first look at not at all. With a thick file folders and a water bottle, the 21-year-old goes through St. Paul. Your path leads past a store with toys for gays and several kebab shops. Men turn to their around and spit dirty comments in the air. "I live in this neighborhood still really love," says the native of Leeranerin that less than a year in Hamburg's red light district drawn to musical theater actress are.
While her classmates at nine clock still yawning on the floor of the large dance hall in the School of Entertainment 'is lounging, Ilka energetic on stage and can not wait to begin their performance. With a few classmates she has a rehearsed choreography. "You no clue me around too much," says a classmate bored.
"Criticism is okay. Much is simply Rumgezicke " Ilka said after the hour. "This sucks". Nevertheless, she enjoys going to class. If jazz is on the schedule, the musty smell of the dance hall mixed with the smell of hairspray and sweat. As soon as the first rays of the day crawling through the arched windows in the hall, the others students overcome their fatigue and also rattle again. The bass of the music flows out of the pits and can shake the ground, would drive just as a subway underneath her. The artists swirl their arms and legs in the air as soon as possible and try to spool the choreographed steps. The slippery hardwood floors with blue, red and white guidelines is at such moments their enemy. The sticky hair spray on the soles of the ballet shoes for a friend.
between cosmetic bags, water bottles, CD's and tights for a quarter of an hour ends up also Ilka's sweat-soaked jacket she had worn over her pale violet Spaghettitop. Who is not perfect, get tutoring. Here the coach pulls a student at the pigtail so that it makes the back still straight - there it bends one leg like a rubber doll further back. Agonized grimaces resist the dancers. Acting is just also to their virtues.
"You see, it goes," says the trainer and grins. "Now again quickly right and left of the splits and then we're done. "15 minutes left of time to drink and breathe. The budding actor inflate their votes. In the locker room, the basement, in the hallways or on the toilet. They sing anytime and anywhere.
waiting on the third floor of the red brick building Chantal, the ballet teacher. Plié, Relevé and pirouette. The woman with the pointy nose, the white parchment skin and hair swirls bustling with technical terms around. "Tu dois fermer. The knee does not move. Do you understand? "Her skinny body with muscular upper arms Introducing the mirrored wall and bend the legs at ninety degrees to the left and right. When Ilka it looks similar. "Well, now it works quite well, "she says. At first she hated these lessons, although she has been dancing for 19 years. "I always wanted to be a ballerina, but I never was," said Ilka. It is a video clip dancer. For several years she trained the group "Sneakers" at Schrock Opitz empty. "The dance school was my second home," she says. The beams in their eyes to be when she thinks about old times.
12.45 Clock: choral instruction is on the schedule. Ilka had only time to eat an apple and a cup of tea. "I always stuffing something quickly on the inside. A proper lunch break, we have not. "
can slow the Concentration after. Old tenor and soprano. The interaction of the choreography works at all on that day. Exercise a voice giggles, the second and third twisted bored eyes. Some students prefer to look in the mirror that hangs on the wall, but to focus on. They tug at her hair around and look at their bodies. "So it's not fun," said Ilka later. "We are all on different levels, so that some over-under-challenged and the other".
is similar in music theory. The circle of fifths is on the curriculum. "This is actually something we should all know," said Ilka. "I feel under-challenged." At 18
clock is final. Then Ilka goes to the gym to dance. "This is my compensation. Since I have no pressure to perform, "she says. As much as possible from the day that is their motto. Ilka day ends against a clock at night. Then she goes to bed. Until then, Ilka surf the Internet or reads. You can drink as East Frisian tea with lots of milk in a large cup with a straw or relaxes their tired limbs in the bathtub. Although she sleeps little, she has energy for the next day. Whether they will actually be later as musical performer on stage, they do not know. "I leave open all doors. I do not necessarily play a role in have a musical, "she says. You can also imagine, as a presenter to work with the children's channel. If it were up to Ilka, would one day have more than 24 hours. "A fortune teller once told me that I had power for three to ten lives. Because sure there is something "
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