<div style="break-before: page; break-after: page; text-align: justify;">For a New York holiday season, this is akin to Santa himself taking the year off. He works hard, but the Rockettes work harder: 300 kicks per show, up to four shows a day&mdash;after six weeks of rehearsal, six days a week, for six hours a day. Those were the days before covid-19 shut down Radio City. The usual 80-woman company has not been hired this year; they have dispersed or stayed home, keeping up their offseason gigs as exercise instructors, real estate agents, students, and accountants. But a skeleton crew of Rockettes are training for the events they <i>can</i> do: 18 for the Macy&rsquo;s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a dozen for the Rockefeller Center tree lighting, masked and spaced. &ldquo;Our kick lines look the same, but we are doing them socially distanced,&rdquo; says Maranda LeBar, 28, who has been a Rockette for nine years and is a dance instructor in the off-season. That makes the job harder, says Katelyn Gaffney, 29, an 11-year veteran and off-season dog trainer, since precision is easier to find cheek by jowl. Much of life as a Rockette has been tested by the pandemic-era adjustments. But even now, sisters in-line are still sisters, online. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve actually had Zoom meetings just to catch up, see what&rsquo;s going on,&rdquo; LeBar says. &ldquo;You know, all 80 of us on the Zoom call.&rdquo;

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