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Natalia Osipova Will Have No Truck With The Ballet Diva Mystique, Thank You

DANCE Posted: July 25, 2014 12:53 am

“I am not interested in sporting diamond tiaras on stage, or having my point shoes cooked and eaten by my fans. Ballet has evolved and the ballerina figure with it. … There is simply no reason, nor time, to perpetuate century-old clichés, such as the remote, semi-divine figure of the 19th-century ballet star.”

DANCE Published: 07.26.14

Read the story in The Spectator (UK) Published: 07.26.14

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