English - Dancer | April 27, 1969 -
When I started, there was a very strong image of what the ballerina was supposed to be in her tights and her costume, and then I started doing photo shoots in bomber boots, and it wasn't seen as the done thing.
Darcey Bussell
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I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.
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I used to wear long jumpers, but they made me look like a bag tied up in the middle.
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I love Australia; it's such an outdoor life.
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I'm a grazer by nature - fruit, nuts - but I try to discipline myself and sit down for regular meals when the girls are around, as I want to instil good habits in them.
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Now I'm on television, I'm far more conscious of my skin than I used to be - I would often leave the theatre with layers of pancake make-up still on my face, but on a medium such as TV, I have to be more fastidious.
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The hardest thing about 'Strictly' is having to sit still for so long; it just about kills me.
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Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot's statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.
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I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.
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A teacher's not going to bother being tough on you for no reason; it's when they're not paying you attention that you should worry.
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You don't just become a success overnight.
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I know, for me, dance did inspire me. Not just in how I feel but that confidence of being able to hold myself and come into a room and just feel comfortable with my body and how I stand and how you present yourself and just how you wear clothes, even.
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