Sunday, 8 August 2010

Francesca Filpi brings more than a touch of magic to her role as the Godmother in Cinderella




Francesca Filpi is a dancer with one of the most prestigious companies in the World, the Royal Ballet Company. She has danced many soloist roles with the Company but for the first time Francesca has been asked by Monica Mason the director of the Royal Ballet Company to dance the role of Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. It is a role that will test Francesca's lyrical abilities and she will need to have nerves of steel to dance her solo on the empty vastness of the Opera House stage! It is a very exciting time for Francesca because she is also involved in setting up a Dance Retreat, Dar Danse in Morocco.

EM/ Have you performed the role yet? If so how did you feel on stage?

FP/I have danced the role of Godmother once and the next one is tomorrow evening.

Its funny, one minute your are standing in the comforting darkness of the wings, surrounded by the friendly stage crew lads, cracking the odd joke and then suddenly you are plunged into this surreal world, a huge empty stage with a bright light shining down at you, incredible music drifting up from the orchestra pit, your feet start bourreing ...and you're off.
Read the full interview in the September issue of Dance Dynamic.
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