Something Different (1963)

Eva Bosáková: gymnastka Eva

Quotes 

• gymnastka Eva : So where do we go from here?

• gymnastka Eva : I don't have the strength for it.

• baletní mistr - Evin trener : Extend it as before.

  gymnastka Eva : Ow!

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : Turn out your heel! Shoulders down. Don't puff your chest out, we're after the line! Arms up and keep the pose. Get your balance. Holding it?

  gymnastka Eva : Yes.

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : Right, that's what we want. So now, come on up here, onto the beam.

  gymnastka Eva : I've got to do it up there?

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : Onto the beam. Jump!

  gymnastka Eva : How am I to do it?

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : You'll go straight into the pose out of the turn. Turn.

• gymnastka Eva : It's my mother's baking. Do you think I can cook? I've never had time to learn. But maybe one day I shall.

• gymnastka Eva : My God! Is it even possible for me to do this?

• gymnastka Eva : It's not as simple as it looks, you know. The other interests and plans I've had, I've had to give away.

  Fotoreportér : Hold it, Olda!

  gymnastka Eva : Today to be at the top in sport means to sacrifice everything.

  Fotoreportér : Look into the lens! Come nearer, Olda, will you?

  gymnastka Eva : I've no time for anything.

  Fotoreportér : Happier; happy, smile!

  gymnastka Eva : I'm so tired. Always the same thing and sometimes I feel that I can't go on.

  Fotoreportér : Well then, why don't you give it up?

• gymnastka Eva : Photography must also be interesting work.

  Fotoreportér : Yes it is. But, of course, if you're doing it all the time you get fed up with it. I admire how much you all can withstand.

• gymnastka Eva : Ow!

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : Tell me right now: are we going to train or loaf about? Don't whine. You know, you're not far from thirty, my girl. It doesn't add to your suppleness.

• baletní mistr - Evin trener : Stretch nicely to the other side. Nice and round. Stretch your vertebras. To the other side, even lower. Back parallel to the floor, we'll flatten you out nicely like an ironing board. Flat on your ear!

  gymnastka Eva : What are you doing with my hair?

• baletní mistr - Evin trener : You have to manage to do this today, you simply have to do it. We've been practicing for it a half a year and with a safety belt you do it perfectly. It only takes a little nerve. Get ready. And be perfectly calm. Now ready. Legs taut, up with it! Dammit, you've messed it up again! Stop with this "nerves" business, because you have no choice but to do it!

  gymnastka Eva : But I'm afraid.

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : What the devil are you afraid of? You can do a flying forward roll, without the safety belt perfectly, and it's a somersault too.

  gymnastka Eva : Yes, but it''s a front somersault.

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : So, what's the difference?

  gymnastka Eva : A salto is a back somersault though.

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : A salto is backwards - I can't put eyes in the back of your head just for this!

  gymnastka Eva : But it's like a leap in the dark.

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : Cut it out. Every sniveling kid in the circus does saltos on a daily basis and if they didn't, their Dad would take them out back and slap them.

  gymnastka Eva : Go ahead, slap me then!

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : It wouldn't be such a bad idea. It's not official teaching practice, but we could give it a go.

• gymnastka Eva : Well?

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : It's as if you were rolling out the barrels, as if a wasp had stung you! It's no use like that.

• gymnastka Eva : What's wrong now?

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : Your body orientation is bad.

  gymnastka Eva : I always do it like that.

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : That is why it's so wrong.

• baletní mistr - Evin trener : Now do the fouetté, but not like a dog at a corner-stone!

  gymnastka Eva : How am I to turn?

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : You must turn not in relation to surround space, but in relation to your own body axis. For the sake of esthetic effect.

  gymnastka Eva : Come and correct me.

  baletní mistr - Evin trener : Now do the fouetté. But not like a dog at a corner-stone. Do a proper fouetté. Now pull back your left shoulder. Further back! And look over your shoulder. Don't bend your head or you'll have a neck like a St. Bernard. Fully extended. Still more of a stretch, look this way. Press your hips forward and now reaching should reach out into space. That's the idea.