I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

But you do have to start young as a dancer if you're going to achieve the physical skills necessary.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.