E14 - Marcelino Sambe: Dance like no-one is watching
The High Performance Podcast
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4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Portuguese dancer Marcelino Sambé is a Principal of The Royal Ballet. At just 25-years old, he already proved himself to be one of the most technically accomplished and inspiring stars in the world of dance, excelling in some of ballet’s trickiest roles – all delivered with his characteristic smile and optimism.
Born in a poor area on the outskirts of Lisbon, his father died when he was 8 and his guidance came from his local community centre.
Marcelino is only the second black dancer ever to make the Royal Ballet’s top tier following on from Carlos Acosta.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, so another week, another dose of inspiration for you for free from the |
| 0:07.1 | High Performance Podcast. Welcome along and first of all thanks for all the |
| 0:10.6 | comments about the Oliguna Salsiara episode last time out. We have had so many |
| 0:15.1 | questions and comments and Damien and myself will discuss them at the end of this |
| 0:19.6 | episode so stick around for that and don't forget to join the High Performance |
| 0:23.4 | Conversation you can either follow at J.Cumpfrey or at High Performance on |
| 0:28.2 | Instagram there's loads going on there so we'd love you to be part of the |
| 0:31.6 | conversation on social media. As for this week, well the conversation you're |
| 0:35.5 | about to hear is one of the most uplifting, life-affirming and inspiring |
| 0:40.1 | conversations that Damien and myself have had since the High Performance Podcast |
| 0:44.7 | launched. You know my partner tells me that he's |
| 0:48.9 | senseless freedom. He says that I go on I jump and I'm not thinking of what's |
| 0:54.0 | coming next in the way of like either you I'm not thinking technically. The |
| 0:57.9 | dances that I love watching are the dances that I have complete freedom in their |
| 1:00.9 | eyes and you see a dance that's complete freedom and a dance that almost feels |
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