Hi everyone and welcome to this week's episode. My guest today is Yasmin Nagdi who is a British ballerina and principal ballerina of the Royal Ballet London. She joined the Royal Ballet's quarter ballet in April 2010

while she was a graduate student at the Royal Ballet School before making her way up through all five

ranks of the Royal Ballet, reaching the highest rank of principal, aged only 24.

Now we met through an event that I remember sitting next year and just being like you are my dream person to the next to because I am ballet obsessed I grew up dancing and

Yasmin really embodies everything that I love about the tough career that it is to be a ballet dancer.

And today we've got her on to talk all about it.

So Yasmin, welcome to the podcast.

How are you doing?

Good, yeah, really good, thanks.

I mean, it's so nice to see you. I haven't seen you in a while, so I feel like we've got lots to catch up on, but some of the things that I would love to cover are really things that maybe I don't know too much about. I mean, I know I've asked you a bit about sort of how you got into dancing, but it would be really lovely for the

listeners to know what that journey was like for you becoming a professional ballerina

feels like such a huge journey to go on so back to sort of starting at ballet, when did you begin dancing and what was that kind of journey like for you?

I started when I was around the age of four or five, just moving all the time, and I started with gymnastics actually I went every

Saturday to gymnastics classes and I had a friend that was also doing gymnastics

with me and she went to ballet class and so I sort of followed her to a ballet class at one point and I just fell in love with it.

I loved the music and the movement and the outlet of energy and I would just come home and dance the whole evening,

made my parents sit down and watch my performances. and I would just come home and dance the whole evening,

made my parents sit down and watch my performances.

So I was a really theatrical child from the start.

I loved singing.

I loved that kind of performance aspect.

And it just was a match made in heaven. and I kind of didn't look back once I started

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