‘My career is in the studio every day’ … Precious Adams. She’s been regularly singled out by critics, whether for her Russian-schooled lyricism, charismatic American zing or getting under the skin of contemporary choreography, and she’s about to appear in a triple bill including Mats Ek’s new Rite of Spring and a William Forsythe work set to the electronic music of James Blake. Was I totally unaware of my big toe this whole time?!”Īdams, originally from Detroit, did her first dancing around the living room to a Vengaboys CD, but went on to train in Canada, Monaco and Moscow before joining English National Ballet in 2014. “Even after all these years you’ll become suddenly aware of some new muscle and fire it up, like, I didn’t know I could switch my deep rotators on so intensely!” A few years ago, a coach told Adams to think about pressing her big toenail down to the floor for stability, “And suddenly it gave me the most control over my whole body the magic answer. “Our mind-body connection is on another level,” she says. P recious Adams likens being a dancer to having fibre optic cables running through her body.
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