"To dance, put your hand on your heart and listen to the sound of your soul"
-Luigi-
"To dance is to be out of yourself, larger, more beautiful, more powerful"
-De Mille-
In the mid 1950’s my grandmother, a beautiful young women from Surrey, was a ballet dancer. Post war society offered only a small number of choices for young women. So my grandmother danced and she adored it. Her passion was to perform and she still smiles as she remembers my great grandmother sewing her stage costumes.
As a little girl she would share her dance stories with me and I have loved ballet ever since. My favourite ballet is Wuthering Heights by Northern Ballet, choreographed by David Nixon. I saw it in Yorkshire which was the perfect setting to bring Emily Bronte's novel to life.
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