Artistic Director/Lead Principal, English National Ballet - Tamara Rojo
Can Tamara Rojo triumph over tradition?
The Interview · BBC World Service
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Show Notes
Tamara Rojo - artistic director and lead principal of the English National Ballet - talks about her new production, a ballet about one of the bloodiest conflicts in the 20th Century, which is part of an attempt to modernise what is often a rather conservative repertoire in ballet. She would like to do the same with training and technique too, but with some of the stars arguing that ballet should be tough and a new generation of dancers who have gone through a demanding training in Japan and China beginning to flourish, can Tamara Rojo triumph over tradition?
(Picture: Tamara Rojo. Credit: Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images)