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James Thierrée: 'Baryshnikov told me to get used to pain. It's part of a dancer's life' by Chris Wiegand

As he prepares to take his latest spectacular to the Edinburgh festival, the performer talks about the 'magic box' of theatre, listening to frogs' secrets and playing an acrobatic Ariel for Peter GreenawayJames Thierrée's new show, The Toad Knew, opens and closes in characteristically topsy-turvy fashion. At the start, the heavy red curtain hanging before us is pulled not up but entirely down, the cloth yanked acros…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29AM on July 12, 2016

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