Royal Ballet's hottest new star a self-described "ginger freak"
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Edward Watson is the first to admit that his red hair, delicate skin and fine limbs perhaps do not qualify him as a regular ballet pin-up. "Ginger freak" is his phrase for himself, not the critics'. Yet the 30-year-old dancer has been all over the Royal Ballet cast lists this season.Edward Watson is the first to admit that his red hair, delicate skin and fine limbs perhaps do not qualify him as a regular ballet pin-up. "Ginger freak" is his phrase for himself, not the critics'. Yet the 30-year-old dancer has been all over the Royal Ballet cast lists this season.Watson remembers that first night at Covent Garden in November as extraordinary: "I'd never felt such a tension in the theatre. It was amazing when the audience went crazy." But he seems unaware that his own dancing was such a charismatic part of it.
Read the full interview with Watson on The Guardian website.