As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform.

Deborah Bull CBE (born 22 March 1963) is an English dancer writer and broadcaster and Creative Director of the Royal Opera House. Born in Derby and brought up in Kent and Lincolnshire Deborah Bull studied dance from the age of seven first locally and then on the recommendation of her teacher at the Royal Ballet School.