Whats the lifestyle like with the Australian Ballet?
It’s very easy to get stuck in your own world. I had ballet class at 10.30 am, followed by rehearsals all day and a performance at night. I was rehearsing and performing different shows, so it was interesting to constantly have different projects. You end up waiting to see the cast board for the next production – and that tends to dominate your thinking a bit. You might think you are totally suited to a lead role in a production, but then you find that you’re a spear holder in the back row. In the ballet ranking system, you get ranked from the Corps de ballet up to principals. Things worked out strangely for me, because I was in the Corps de ballet but was doing lots of principal and soloist roles. It was frustrating because I was doing the harder roles but never getting a promotion and the benefits that go with that.
