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Darcey Bussell

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first: 2006-05-14
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2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“biographies you get bored of very quickly but Audrey Hertburn I suppose only because she's always been my idol so she'd keep me going I think and she wanted to be a dancer as well so I relate to her really well”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's very difficult. Because I'm kind of two different people, I think, because I love the classical. But I think feel-good factor is virtual insanity by General College.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That would be nice with a view with a view across country or sea or something. The last song up. This is virtual insanity, a Frei Jamarquai. I never say that perfectly. But I've always loved this guy. I think he's incredibly theatrical himself. And I think he's a bit of a choreographer. One day I hope to bring into the ballet maybe and come and see some works we do, because I think he should be on the stage as well.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Little slowdown. I mean, we move home constantly because I love moving home and doing up houses as well. So we're going to slow down on that. So you're going to move to.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A little bit, yeah. I think I feel everything is non-stop. You don't stop being a mum anyway, but I do everything else on top of that, and it's like this kind of wheel, and you never can kind of jump off it. Yeah, a little bit of normality would be kind of entertaining.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I would love to experiment in a couple of other styles of dance. I just want to do those things I've never been able to do. And if flamenco dancing was something you can't do when you're team ballet, because you're all that stamping and so bad for your joints.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, it is lovely having that unity in a company because I've been there for so long. The other members of the company are brilliant and they all support you. I mean, I'm not going to lose my dressing room. I'm still going to be based there. But I'm just not going to be around as much”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I don't know. It's all a little bit of a test for me at the moment. I'm just going to see if it works or not. But I only really want to do it if I really love it as well. I don't want to do it because it's just a job, you know.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, very much, he said my heart was very strong if I'd been any weaker as a human being and no, I might have not survived. Very lucky him here. Reckon on seven, yes. This is for A's Requiem, and it's just a piece from a ballet that we've been performing recently. And I did this when I was very first in the company. And it's a beautiful piece of music. And I think to dance to a piece where you have vocals. It is magical.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I thought both of us, yeah, because having a baby and incubator, you know, a tiny little thing. I mean, luckily she was a very good weight for a premature baby. And I had fluid on my heart and my lungs. And I was actually only in hospital for eight days. But she was in hospital for six weeks before she was allowed out.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I can't have anymore. No, he did say I've been lucky. And I think just what I'd gone through the first time, he said the second time I was lucky again.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know. I mean, they say it's actually hereditary. It's not really what you do. I mean, I definitely think I was doing too much because I had no idea and people say, oh, rest. And you go, yeah, yeah, I'll rest. And I was resting compared to what I normally do. Luckily, everything went smoothly. Second pregnancy, and when I had Zoe, I was much more sensible and stopped doing class maybe three weeks before I had her.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very, very, and I think I was iller than I didn't realize because I didn't realize all the consequences, nothing actually went in until probably months after we'd had her. Did I actually realize, oh wow, we were lucky?”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“32 weeks and I spent 18 weeks. But they say, you know, when you reach 30 weeks, you're safer, obviously. It was just very scary that placenta has a chemical reaction or something between you both. And either the baby starts failing or you start failing. And with me, I started failing. My liver and kidneys all started to pack up. And that's why I was getting such back pain was all where my kidneys.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um I didn't know because I didn't know anything about preclampsia and it was very strange because I just I had pains in my back. It's amazing actually because my doctor was brilliant because you can die of this and I was just I had no idea we went in, they said okay, I spent one night in hospital and I didn't know I was really ill, I just thought oh it's bad back, maybe this is what most pregnant women get and my blood pressure was really high and I stayed a night in hospital they just monitored me and the next day I was back in hospital again. No, I never went into labour. It was just a big shock and they just said you're not going to recover if we don't get the baby out now because they like to keep the baby in as long as possible, obviously.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As we shall hear This is Wise Men by James Blunt, and the last thing about him is he just comes across incredibly passionate about what he does. In his voice it's this wonderful like I really mean every word I say and it's I don't know it's great I love listening to him and this is I think a lovely a lovely song.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was in the studio doing class, but I knew I couldn't do back bends because you could feel the stretch Between your ribs and the stomach and your body stops you from doing certain things. And I suppose when I decided that we really would love to have a child, I had to also make my mind up that I wasn't going to dance again because I might have not been able to dance again. You never know, do you?”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well they well, the doctors always say don't change what you do and I suppose they never realize actually what we do to our bodies. I mean after three months I did stop dancing.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mind of its own. Is it shorting because I did class until I gave birth and it was very odd we have big mirrors in our studios and just every week I'd come in and I'd go, oh, that's me.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't want to risk it. I just didn't want to risk it. I'd seen a lot of dances, I suppose, have fabulous careers, and then desperately wanted the family and it didn't happen. And it did take me a long time, and I was very worried that we weren't going to be able to have children, and I just can't believe, actually, it's happened and that I look at them every day. I go, wow.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's all up to yourself. Yeah, it's very selfish art, and he's been an amazing sport, even having the kids and knowing how they mean so much and how I don't want to lose that connection with them just because I'm a dancer.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very much now she comes on right at the beginning under a beautiful piece of chiffon and she is just like this vision to him this wonderful masculine man standing like in the middle of the stage and he's just like falls in love instantly. It's perfect.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Number five, well, this is a wonderful, wonderful padere by Sir Frederick Ashton. And it's Thais, the meditation of Thaiys. And I actually had this played at my wedding. It was so magical in the church. I mean, it is a magical piece anyway, the violin solo. It's just superb and”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean I can go abroad and I can perform in lots of different opera houses and with lots of different companies and you can ask city amounts of money but it's how much you really want to do that I don't want to leave my children anymore you see so if I go and guess with companies it will be in Europe now and they'll have to”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why it's so important that the body is built to dance, and I think I've been very lucky with my injuries, you know, even though I've had two operations on my ankle, because your buddy just wear and tear quicker, much quicker, and it's so unnatural what we do to it. and much more athletic than it ever used to be”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There it is, hasn't always said that. There, I mean, I remember my husband saying, Sure you might have to have a false hip or something like that. There's a lot of dancers that have had false hips and very early age a lot of dancers have them, you know, fifty five, sixty.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dancers in the wings just going The blood the blood or whatever in Italian like this and asking like this where the curtain went down and I had blood running down my leg and they said it was so effective oh it was amazing Can you do it again next time? It was awful because I had to repeat the value the next two nights”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really strange. I mean, the other day I was dancing with La Scala and I was doing man on, which is a brilliant. So Kenneth McMillan Ballet, and they would do this fabulous lift. It's right at the end of the ballet. And the guy had a buckle on his shirt, which he doesn't usually have. It's like a clip. And as he brought me down, I literally ripped all the skin off my hip when he was catching me from this lift, because it's a big throw lift. And I didn't even know. I mean, I knew there was this kind of hot pain. And when I was lying on the floor and I die at that point, of course, so perfect. And you should have seen, because it was the first time I danced with La Scala, and these Italian...”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it is odd. I've obviously played a lot of princess roles, you know, Cinderella and Aurora and Swan Lake, and you do have to put this front on, and you only ever really feel the pain as soon as you come off the stage.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Next piece is Mozart's Requiem. I suppose when I start at the Royal Ballet School, I hadn't really listened to a lot of music and I got all into this classical music and found a lot of requiems that I just was in. And I say, hey, I'm listening to him's. And this was one of my favorites. And hopefully one day I'll do a ballet to this one. It's lovely.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, I was quite happy to meet him, but I didn't think he wanted to meet me on my own Maybe he was a bit theatrical and wanted to meet me with a lot of other people and I wanted to meet him on my own.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, y I hope you'd see me. No, I didn't really think about it because I've never known him so it never, I had a father, so I didn't see it like that.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was performing with Australian ballet, but I think he's seen me dance quite a few times, but I never had the courage to actually come and see me.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Luckily. love me too by the beatles my parents played a lot of the beatles obviously and I don't think they're ever gonna age basically the songs are just magical and it's one of my favourites”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, very difficult. The swelling had never gone down. I think they just probably thought my ankle just looked like that normally. I don't know.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, that's right. It's run a hip. Yeah, no. I mean, it was, I had actually an injury when I auditioned for the Royal Ballet School that I was very worried that they were going to notice because I'd really badly spray my ankle.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, oh no, I only wanted to do it if I was going to be at the top. It was that awful thing where you can have this set in your mind. And I see all these dancers destroyed when they're told that they're not going to make it. And they're going to constantly have injuries because they have a very stiff back or they have no turnout or all these things. And you kind of go, how could that possibly stop me from being what I love to do?”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At eleven or eleven, yeah, so I'd missed the first few years and that was a big shock because my first year I thought I'd made a big mistake and thought, oh my goodness, I can't do ballet. I can't do anything that they're doing. I was so far behind, and I suppose I was in shock that it wasn't all fun.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I went to a stage cook, she knew that's where I should be, and then from there I chose ballet and I made her words I've got to go to all ballet school. No, no, no, you'll hate it, you'll hate it. It's too disciplined.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, she's not. She's not. She did dabble in, she went to the Royal Valley School. And she did two years, but she definitely wasn't passionate about it at all.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah. No, technically you don't have to worry about too many steps. The girl can get totally involved in the role, and I can forget that anybody is out there watching me, and I can cry and I can, oh, everything. There's a bit where she actually is sick. And you can feel it building up inside you yourself, you know, because the music is so perfect and how overcome she is with distress that this potion's got to stay in her or it's not going to work and then she won't see him and all these things. It's amazing.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. Well, the music for me tells the story. Everybody kind of complains that sometimes Ballet doesn't have any words, but you don't need it when you have music that's so perfect like that. I can hear what she's sensing, what she's feeling on every strand. It's amazing, actually, because she sits on this bed in the third movement, in third act. And that's when she decides who's going to take the potion and make this decision. She goes to the friar to say, help me, you've got to help me do this. How can we work this out so I can be with Romeo forever, you know? So sad.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A swimmer gymnast. The gymnastics, that's why I started my ballet really. Because I love gymnastics, and it was funny funny because I was actually too tall to do that. And then I realized, well, the gymnastics wasn't going to work and I enjoyed the ballet, so I kept that going Tell me about that. Oh, well, we've just been performing this. This is Pikofyov's Romeo and Juliet. And this is a magical part for me. It's one of probably the best paladers. And it's basically where we first really, really meet, where we connect me and Romeo and Juliet and Romeo. And it's very special. It's got some wonderful choreographic moves in it. Not that you're going to see those, but you can imagine them with the music”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have, yeah, I've been very lucky my jump has always stayed with me even though I've had two operations on my ankle. It's still there now. I can still jump”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who discovered Yeah, no, no. I mean, when I did the school foreman, he chose me when I was actually only 16. And so he obviously had it in his mind quite well. He said you had an enormous”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I was tall and everybody thought I was American. I was more athletic, I suppose, than our usual set pallorinas that came up the ranks, and so I had a different attack.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was already stealing quite a few rolls from some of the soloists anyway, and that's always tough. I mean, I'm sure I wouldn't have liked it if somebody stepped in my shoes.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Totally, totally unexpected. I mean, you usually do quite a few principal roles before you're made a principal. And, I mean, I'd done a couple before pagodas. And no, I was no way expecting it. And there was a big shock. Especially in front of the whole company, you usually do those things privately because we were on stage with everybody. And I was just in the stage shot. I didn't know what to say. And I did ask, are you sure about this one? No, and it was lovely. It was lovely.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My first piece is Golden Brown by the Stranglers. Instrumentally I think it's unique and it's a good feeling song and I like it.”
2006-05-14 · Desert Island Discs · Darcey Bussell · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source