The human aspect has to be minimized, but what do you do? All we can give back to the audience is from the [monetary] resources we receive.

I actually quit ballet when I was 14,

Jeremy Irons of ballet.

movement for movement’s sake.

But then my father was transferred to New York, and … I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights, big city, the professional companies and great dancers. I was in a great school...