But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a seven year old, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre, we didn t go to galleries, or. . . I was not exposed to the arts. But they found a local school around the corner, and we now can fully appreciate that little local school had some of the best teachers you could ever come across. And you had this very rapid rise through your teens. You performed at the opening ceremony of the sydney olympics, and then you started to win international ballet competitions. The first teachers i had unleashed this tiger within me. So, then it was when i was about 13 or 14, which again shows you just how incredible my first teachers were, that they felt they d taken me so far, and it was time to hand me on they introduced me to my teacher in sydney, h
Steven mcrae, welcome to hardtalk. We re here at the royal ballet and opera in london, which has been your professional home for many years now, and you re about to go back on stage as the mad hatter in alice s adventures in wonderland. Tell me first how this adventure began for you, the world of ballet. Because you grew up far away from here. Yes. So i grew up in the outskirts of sydney, australia. Probably the furthest you could possibly get from the royal opera house here in london. I grew up in a motorsport family. My father was a drag racer. My father was an incredibly clever man who would create any parts with his own bare hands that he couldn t afford to purchase or to import. But i obviously grew up watching him pursue a passion. My sister did a lot of gymnastics, a bit of dancing, and as a seven year old, i asked my father if i could have a go. I wanted to go to a dance lesson, and my mother and father didn t even question any of it. Bearing in mind we didn t go to the theatre
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Pennsylvania where the numbers have dropped off now, were close to freezing in some locations, if not colder that that. Oxford, 27. 33 in saint david. 38 in chester. Center city, 38. 29 in glassboro and vineland, 32 agenda beach, 32 in smyrna florida. Hockessin, 31 villas, cape may area, 45, 46 degrees. High pressure in control, well keep skies clear it should be a nice looking day just like yesterday. Ton of sunshine start to finish. If youre tailgating early, 43 degrees by 9 00 a. M. 11 00 a. M. , 52. 1 00 p. M. 57. 3 00 p. M. , 59. You get the idea were starting out chilly, we will warm up as the day wears on, but were not seeing the 60s and 70s like we saw a couple of weeks ago either, so youre definitely going to need at least a light jacket for the game this afternoon. Theres another look at the freeze warning up for the counties, state of delaware, cape may county, delaware and philadelphia counties. This is up until 8 00 a. M. When i come back in just a few minutes, were tracki
At penn were the target of racist cyber attack. The eagles take the field against the Atlanta Falcons in less than an hour were live at the linc with a preview. First the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, meteorologist david murphy filling in for chris sowers. Hi, david. Reporter hey, nydia, hey gray a nice day with nothing but blue, a couple of high, thin cirrus clouds. The main cloud cover is breaking up north an east, were seeing the numbers improve, too. It was chilly at dawn, 55 now, 55 in trenton, and millville and down the shore in cape may. The winds not all that strong a little bit breezy, 14 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. And just 9 Miles Per Hour in wilmington. As we go through the afternoon, down the shore look for a high of 61 if youre down there strolling the boards. We have plenty of sunshine in philadelphia with a high of 59 degrees in the poconos, 53 degrees, a little cool, but not as cool as yesterday, in fact all these numbers represent an uptick. We have mil