((PKG)) NYC BLOCK PARTIES
((Banner: Dance it Out!))
((Reporter: Anna Nelson))
((Camera: Natalia Latukhina, Vladimir Badikov))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: New York, New York))
((Main characters: 1 female))
((Sub characters: 2 female; 3 male))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Popup Banner:
What started as a salute to pandemic frontline workers, has
evolved in this New York neighborhood ))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
I heard banging like a pot and I'm like, “What is that?” I'm
looking at TV. I’m like, “What is that?” And she says, “Oh,
seven o'clock, we cheer.” And then I started to see it on the
news. And I said, “Oh, I have nothing to do. I'll do it too.”
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Jo Vill, Host))
So, she decided she wanted to be a part of this. She had a
bell and a whistle when she came outside and she started
ringing and clapping with everybody else.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
It's so fulfilling that before we start, it's almost like at 6:30,
my heart starts to beat fast. You know, like I'm going to
perform, you know, and it’s just the excitement of it.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
There was so many people that were, at first, afraid to dance
and then they realized that it didn't matter how you dance.
Because when I see them not moving, I will move with them
or I push them in the middle and say, “Dance!” and they
would dance. And now they’re dancing freely like there is no
inhibition at all. They just dance, whatever comes out, it
comes out. And they’re so happy and they tell me later,
“Thank you. You know, it made me feel so free because I
had nothing.”
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Kahlila Kramer, Yoga Teacher))
That’s my husband and he’s a doctor and he got very sick.
He got exposed at work and he had COVID for three weeks.
I’ve never seen him so sick and it was really scary.
((Anthony Vavasis, Doctor))
It’s because so many people either have permanent injuries
or died and I feel so fortunate that I didn’t. And I got pretty
sick and so we didn’t know what was going to happen.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
To me, one minute you can change your life by thinking
something negative. So, I figure if you can get an hour of
freedom with other people, it’ll take that out of your spirit.
Just take it away.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Jo Vill, Host))
Sometimes my wife, she’ll come out here. She'll see
somebody slap somebody’s hand because they forget.
She’ll come and spray them with alcohol.
((NATS:
We give out masks.))
((Jo Vill, Host))
And we give out masks and water.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Frederique Dessemond, Designer))
This is something that really grew and became this, which is
for me now what should be tomorrow.
((Emmanuel Babou, Gallerist))
I mean, this should be happening in every block right now
because it goes beyond race, sexual orientation, body types,
age.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
We put a positive message at the end of it. So, when they
go, to remember to love yourself, to remember that you're
worthy, to be smart, to be strong and don't give up. We
need human interaction in a positive way to balance all that
negativity out. You need the positivity. And so that's what
we're trying to do, bring positivity into this space that we
have.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Banner: Dance it Out!))
((Reporter: Anna Nelson))
((Camera: Natalia Latukhina, Vladimir Badikov))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: New York, New York))
((Main characters: 1 female))
((Sub characters: 2 female; 3 male))
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Popup Banner:
What started as a salute to pandemic frontline workers, has
evolved in this New York neighborhood ))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
I heard banging like a pot and I'm like, “What is that?” I'm
looking at TV. I’m like, “What is that?” And she says, “Oh,
seven o'clock, we cheer.” And then I started to see it on the
news. And I said, “Oh, I have nothing to do. I'll do it too.”
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Jo Vill, Host))
So, she decided she wanted to be a part of this. She had a
bell and a whistle when she came outside and she started
ringing and clapping with everybody else.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
It's so fulfilling that before we start, it's almost like at 6:30,
my heart starts to beat fast. You know, like I'm going to
perform, you know, and it’s just the excitement of it.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
There was so many people that were, at first, afraid to dance
and then they realized that it didn't matter how you dance.
Because when I see them not moving, I will move with them
or I push them in the middle and say, “Dance!” and they
would dance. And now they’re dancing freely like there is no
inhibition at all. They just dance, whatever comes out, it
comes out. And they’re so happy and they tell me later,
“Thank you. You know, it made me feel so free because I
had nothing.”
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Kahlila Kramer, Yoga Teacher))
That’s my husband and he’s a doctor and he got very sick.
He got exposed at work and he had COVID for three weeks.
I’ve never seen him so sick and it was really scary.
((Anthony Vavasis, Doctor))
It’s because so many people either have permanent injuries
or died and I feel so fortunate that I didn’t. And I got pretty
sick and so we didn’t know what was going to happen.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
To me, one minute you can change your life by thinking
something negative. So, I figure if you can get an hour of
freedom with other people, it’ll take that out of your spirit.
Just take it away.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Jo Vill, Host))
Sometimes my wife, she’ll come out here. She'll see
somebody slap somebody’s hand because they forget.
She’ll come and spray them with alcohol.
((NATS:
We give out masks.))
((Jo Vill, Host))
And we give out masks and water.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Frederique Dessemond, Designer))
This is something that really grew and became this, which is
for me now what should be tomorrow.
((Emmanuel Babou, Gallerist))
I mean, this should be happening in every block right now
because it goes beyond race, sexual orientation, body types,
age.
((NATS/MUSIC))
((Gail Bryan-Vill, Host))
We put a positive message at the end of it. So, when they
go, to remember to love yourself, to remember that you're
worthy, to be smart, to be strong and don't give up. We
need human interaction in a positive way to balance all that
negativity out. You need the positivity. And so that's what
we're trying to do, bring positivity into this space that we
have.
((NATS/MUSIC))
