Romany pajdak biography of martin

Royal Ballet dancer Romany Pajdak describes a typical day in the life of a ballerina at one of the world’s most respected dance companies.

Romany Pajdak, 25
First Artist, The Royal Ballet

This is my seventh season with the Royal Ballet.

Before that I was at the Lower School for two years and then two years in the Upper School.

I decided that I wanted to do this as a job when I was about 10. I was prancing round the living room to a video of Viviana Durante, a principal with the Royal Ballet at the time; it was the company’s production of Sleeping Beauty.

Romany pajdak biography of martin

I could just feel me go ‘this is what I want to be doing for a very long time to come!’

I aim to get up about 07:30, which usually means falling out of bed about 8:00. I have hot water and lemon, to get the stomach clean, porridge or cereal for breakfast, and head off to work about 08:45.

I get there between 09:15 and 09:30 depending on the joys o