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 didnt even question any of It Bearing in mind we didnt go to the theatre, we didnt 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 theyd taken me so far, and it was time to hand me on they introduced me to my teacher in sydney, hilary kaplan
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
Russell brands channel, whats happening there . Well, in recent years Russell Brand has perhaps dropped out of the Mainstream Media a little bit, but that doesnt mean that he doesnt have a huge following on social media, in particular onjujube. He has 6. 6 million followers for his channel where he posts videos almost every day, giving his opinion on all sorts of things. He is able to make quite a lot of money out of that because there are adverts at the beginning of those videos and at the end and he is also able to promote things as part of those videos and provide links in the comments and Description Section of the youtube page to various products. However, he is no longer going to be able to make money from that because google has come out with a statement this morning saying we have suspended monetisation of Russell Brands channel for violating our greater responsibility policy. No response to this movie yet from Russell Brand, although i was looking at his site this morning and
qualification for the knockout stage of the champions league is out of manchester uniteds hands after they were held to a 3 3 draw by galatasaray. they now have to beat bayern munich at old trafford in theirfinal group game and hope that the turkish side draw their game against copenhagen on the same night. it was an incredible game in istanbul, united led 2 0 and 3 1 but their goalkeeper andre onana should have done better with both hakim ziyech s goals that came from free kicks. the draw means that united stay bottom of their group and even beating bayern is unlikely to be enough. the united manager refused to point the finger at his keeper. we ve been together, we lose together. we win together, we lose together. and you see the progress in this team. and i take many positives of this game. in some stages, we we play like i want my team to play. it was enjoyable to watch them. and so proactive, dynamic and brave. and we scored great goals. and even after we had some setbac
speak to a chinese economist at oxford economics. we are in expansionary territory but still quite, we are looking at perhaps quite a week set of data going to the end of the year. week set of data going to the end of the year. what does this tell us about end of the year. what does this tell us about the end of the year. what does this tell us about the broader - tell us about the broader chinese economy? it tell us about the broader chinese economy? it affirms to us we are chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family on chinese economy? it affirms to us we are family on a chinese economy? it affirms to | us we are family on a bottoming out process. in this bottoming out process. in this bottoming out as always going to be volatile there will be slight ups and slight downs but chinese policymakers will look at the data from today and think this is the second month of contraction, we definitely need more stimulus