Hello, I am Tamara Rojo, and this is a download of my Desert Island Disc.

It's been an incredible honor and a pleasure to be invited to do this program.

I hope you like it. The details of all the tracks I've chosen are on the Desert Island

this website. The tracks have been shortened because of right reasons. Here it is. My castaway this week is the ballerina to Mararojo. On stage she is principal dancer for the English National Ballet.

When the curtain comes down she performs the role of the company's artistic director.

World renowned as a stunning emotional and dramatic performer.

It must surely be a very different set of characteristics she employs off stage,

marshalling her company of dancers and propelling the organisation's creative journey.

She was just five years old when sheltering from the rain she found herself in the school gym,

instantly beguiled by the peace and order of a dance class. Despite her father's attempts to widen

her horizons with music and sport and art lessons, her path in life was set. She says,

Life on stage is like nothing else. I've never done heroin but I'm sure

that's what it's like. Every feeling and sense exploding. Every nerve in your body completely awake.

So to Maroroche, that is a fascinating idea.

Tell me a little bit more, if you will, about that physical sensation of dancing.

It's really like nothing else. It is as if the end of your nerves in your

body were completely raw, as if you had not skin. So you feel everything, you feel your partner and you feel his emotions and you feel the air and you feel the audience, you just feel everything in such high level.

You've said that ballet has no words, it goes straight to the soul and the heart.

You can become overcome, these are your words, with emotion.

Now surely a big part of your role must be to

somehow marshal those emotions. Yes you have to balance getting into the role to

that absolute limit that you can move the audience with you, that they believe you're not

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