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Life as a Professional Dancer
Posted 25 January 2012
Following the surprise resignation of Sergei Polunin from the Royal Ballet on 24 January, Central School of Ballet Director Sara Matthews was interviewed by Channel 4 News about the challenges facing professional dancers.
While, the reasons for Polunin's departure are currently unclear, Channel 4 News were interested to ask whether or not dancers do face the pressures as shown in films like Black Swan.
Sara commented that dancers can only deal with the pressures if they love dancing. She also observes that dancers are often seen as athletes, but while athletes' training has peaks of activity with down time, dancers tend to be working all the time.
For the full article on Channel 4 News click here.
