Was Tamara Rojo, when she danced Swan Lake last Saturday at the Albert Hall, thinking as she shaped each phrase, ‘This will be the last time I dance this …and this …and this’? I wonder. She told me a few years back that she had a five-year diary to cover the rest of her dancing career, a diary ending in 2016.
Ismene Brown
Swan upping
Plus: remarkable artistry on display in Crystal Pite’s Betroffenheit at Sadler’s Wells – those of us who saw it won’t forget it

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