October 22, 1999
North Hills, California
Hello Krew,
Everybody is asking me, so I wanna say that I’m gonna turn pro
because I committed to World Pros in December. Till that time I’m not pro, but as
soon as I’m doing this, I’m considered pro.
The reason why is because I kind of was stuck with the competitions,
there was no competitions for me. I didn’t want to compete amateurs anymore, and they
said there’s a new rule that everybody that wants to compete in pro-ams has got to
compete in two Grand Prix events, and in this case you got to practice as amateur. And you
know, it’s just not what I want for this period of time in my life. I don’t have
any competitions but I need some, and that’s why I think it’s a good way for me
right now to turn pro.
I want to talk about the movie… the movie was great. It was
great experience and it was almost that I expected a little bit more with the dancing, but
it was a little bit more of waiting around, you know… it was three months of just
being there because actual taping didn’t take much time. I enjoyed all the action and
everybody was so patient with us because in the movie there were so many new people…
mostly dancers, and me. The director was very good with new people, Nick
Hytner, he’s
highly professional and he was really good. I mean he always explains everything, what to
do and how to do it and on the end he was happy with all the work we’ve done. It was
great to work with him. And it was great to work with other people just to be connected
and just to do these scenes… to feel right about the things that I’ve done. It
wasn’t my profession before, but at some points I really felt that this is exactly
what it’s got to be. At this point.
But I don’t wanna give previews for the movie because it just
making me crazy watching these previews and then you watching the movie and you see they
giving all the best stuff and it’s just… it’s just boring. So I’m not
a big fan of previews. We can talk about that afterwards… if there is something to
talk about! They said it’s spring when the movie comes out… April, but I’m
not sure. They are always changing everything.
We just finished the first SOI practice, and it was a start.
It’s really great to see how the show was coming together, because you know two weeks
was nothing, and right now it’s something and we have some numbers set. It’s
still a long way forward and everybody working on that, so it’s coming together…
My goal for this year is to stay healthy! Stay healthy and just to make the tour better
than the last one. Because last one was really great and was a big success and I was
enjoying it, so it’s really hard to do something better, but we’ll try to do
something better than that!
Miss you too !!!
Iliushka J
