| Biography | "My first job was with Sadler's Wells Opera Ballet. I wasn't a natural dancer but I was good at making people laugh, so did character roles like Dr Coppelius. In 1990 I moved to the Royal, but I found the organisation too big; I started to get terrible stage fright and by the time I turned 35 I was ready to start a new career. With another dancer, Mark Welford, I opened a shop, Bloomsbury Flowers in 1994. It's in Covent Garden and we do loads of work for the Opera House, all the big floral arrangements and the dancers' bouquets. Mark and I perform our own stage show, too: we talk about our careers and do a live flower arrangement to the music of the Rose Adagio. Audiences love it." |