Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are as people, never mind as a dancer. So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

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.