But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a seven year old, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre, we didn t go to galleries, or. . . I was not exposed to the arts. But they found a local school around the corner, and we now can fully appreciate that little local school had some of the best teachers you could ever come across. And you had this very rapid rise through your teens. You performed at the opening ceremony of the sydney olympics, and then you started to win international ballet competitions. The first teachers i had unleashed this tiger within me. So, then it was when i was about 13 or 14, which again shows you just how incredible my first teachers were, that they felt they d taken me so far, and it was time to hand me on they introduced me to my teacher in sydney, h
Steven mcrae, welcome to hardtalk. We re here at the royal ballet and opera in london, which has been your professional home for many years now, and you re about to go back on stage as the mad hatter in alice s adventures in wonderland. Tell me first how this adventure began for you, the world of ballet. Because you grew up far away from here. Yes. So i grew up in the outskirts of sydney, australia. Probably the furthest you could possibly get from the royal opera house here in london. I grew up in a motorsport family. My father was a drag racer. My father was an incredibly clever man who would create any parts with his own bare hands that he couldn t afford to purchase or to import. But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a seven year old, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it. Bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre
Marked a rapid escalation marked a rapid escalation of this conflict. Of this conflict. Israel says its air strikes in yemen, targeting power plants and the port of hodeidah, were their response to missile attacks by the iranian backed houthis. The houthi run health ministry says at least 4 people were killed and 29 wounded. Translation: we have no interest in expanding the war. We have no interest in looking for additionalfronts. But if somebody attacks israel, as the houthis have recently done with missiles and throughout the war with cruise missiles and drones, anyone who carries out such an attack, we will settle the account with them, and we know how to do it. Israel is not holding back its air force releasing footage as they set off for the raid. And earlier today, it says it shot down another drone launched from yemen. For the past year, the yemeni houthis have been trying to influence the conflict in the middle east. This is their commandos seizing a british owned ship in the
From many labour mps. The Prime Minister and the chancellor visiting a Research Facility in liverpool have repeatedly stressed what they say is their dire inheritance, now, there is a shift in tone. Keir starmer was in the mood for celebration, at a scottish reception last night. Thank you so much, enjoy conference, enjoy the evening, and thank you again. Thank you. In her Conference Speech Today, Rachel Reeves will say there is a prize on offer, if, she say, they make the right choices now. What the chancellor will want to get across is good times we want to bring, look, sometimes you have to make difficult decision to give the stability, you dont want to repeat the disaster of Liz Truss in order do that, so where there has to be a tough decision it is for a purpose and it is that better future, yes, we want people to be better off, hope to return to britain. Be better off, hope to return to britain to britain. But one of those difficult decisions to britain. But one of those difficul
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