Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé dance with unforced beauty, imbuing Ashton’s 1960 romcom with a rare sense of mutual discovery Ballet is all about illusion and when Peregrine, the cute pony in ...

“My earliest memory of dancing,” Marcelino Sambé says, “is of being at a community centre for children from troubled families, in Alto da Loba, on the outskirts of Lisbon, where I was born.” We are ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Never shy of tackling complex stories, Cathy Marston has attempted to tell the life and tragically short career ...

‘When I did my first shows, people would ask me “Why do you smile so much?”,’ Marcelino Sambé, the Royal Ballet’s newest principal, reveals with a grin. ‘I’d explain I never felt like I had to come on ...