Ismene Brown

Sylvie Guillem interview: ‘A lot of people hate me. Bon. You can’t please everybody’

The Marmite ballerina retires next year. Ismene Brown talks to her about legs, boobs and changing people’s lives

issue 15 November 2014

If you follow dance or music closely, make them part of your life, you look on certain performers as your daemon. These are the artists who become part of your inner landscape. They act as a tuning fork for your emotions and imagination. And you mark their progress with particular hope that you won’t be disappointed.

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