It was only when I worked with Mats Ek that I understood who I was as a dancer.
Interviews
Interviews with dancers and others
5 Questions to Freya Jeffs - curator of Glasgow's Cottier Dance Project, which runs from 19th-26th June...
5 Questions to Kenneth Tindall on The Architect, about to receive its London premiere at the Royal Opera House, and also talking about his decision to stop dancing and become a freelance choreographer...
Jann Parry talks to Laura Morera and Vadim Muntagirov about all things La Fille mal gardée and a few other things too...
5 Questions for Rosie Kay on the-up-and-coming national tour of '5 SOLDIERS: The Body is the Frontline' - her powerful piece about war and those who fight for us.
David Bintley is celebrating 20 years as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet. Time for a good long natter...
5 Questions to Alexander Whitley on his up and coming premiere, Frames, for Rambert. It gets unveiled in Glasgow on the 5 March and then tours. All you need to know from the man himself...
5 Questions for Hubert Essakow on the 1898 Contemporary Dance Festival and more...
On the eve of opening the latest Royal Ballet season of 'Onegin' Thiago Soares talks about one of his most inspirational roles, and a few other things too...
“Turn every disadvantage into an advantage.” This is the advice Dane Hurst has for aspiring dancers looking for encouragement...
Following 3 years directing Royal New Zealand Ballet, Ethan Stiefel is now back in New York - which is where Marina Harss caught up with him...
Ludovic Ondiviela is making his first full-length work, Cassandra, for the Royal Ballet. And Mara Galeazzi is back from retirement to help him. We catch up with them...
We catch up with Septime Webre, choreographer and artistic director of Washington Ballet. So what makes him get up in the morning? Oksana Khadarina finds out...
5 Questions to Jonathan Goddard on Dracula and more...
Tina Sutton's book "The Making of Markova: Diaghilev’s Baby Ballerina to Groundbreaking Icon" is about to be released in paperback - Jann Parry talks to Sutton about unearthing one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century...
Deloitte Ignite 2014 is about to open and Luca Silvestrini's Protein Dance are part of it. Time to catch up with Silvestrini because it's not your 'standard' dance show...
Born in Paris in 1958, Isabelle Fokine is the daughter of Vitale Fokine and granddaughter of choreographer Mikhail Fokine. She is artistic director of the Fokine Estate Archive, which holds the worldwide copyright to his work.
5 Questions to Shiori Kase. ENB soloist Shiori Kase is on a roll – only yesterday promoted to First Soloist (as of September), she's just won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Jackson International Ballet Competition in the USA and is about to make her debut in Coppelia...
5 Questions to Paul White. Last year Australian Paul White danced at the Southbank Centre in Meryl Tankard's 'The Oracle' and won a UK National Dance Award for Outstanding Performance. This week he dances in a new piece at the Southbank - another winner? We catch up with him...
Graham Watts, visited the Natalia Sats Theatre in Moscow, earlier this year, to talk to both Liepa and Isaakyan about their new production of Le Coq d’Or.