Earlier this 12 months, Yasmine Naghdi was struggling within the rehearsal studio. Naghdi is among the Royal Ballet’s main dancers and her efficiency of Swan Lake can be livestreamed into cinemas around the globe. However though recognized for her crystalline approach, she grew to become virtually too anxious to nail her solo.

Naghdi appears enviably poised at this time: again straight, eyes shining beneath strongly etched brows. However the impending present actually threw her off stability, she explains. “Performing Swan Lake to three,000 folks [in the Royal Opera House] is traumatic in itself however this may be filmed and streamed reside to cinemas globally, with the prospect of being on stream thereafter – that’s the model of me that continues to be on the market. So every part needs to be excellent. That’s an enormous quantity of strain.”

The mind provides destructive experiences two-and-a-half instances the burden of constructive ones