'You're never comfortable as a dancer': brilliant ballerina Beatriz Stix-Brunell's next step
The Royal Ballet star, who is swapping the Covent Garden stage for Stanford University, talks about what she will and won't miss most about dancing You hear of dancers' careers being ended by injury, or of them retiring with a heavy heart in their 30s or 40s. But it's almost unheard of for a ballet dancer to walk away from the stage when they're still on the up. That's what Beatriz Stix-Brunell is doing. After 11 yea…