Wayne Sleep - Just Different
He has danced with ballet legends Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, partied with Freddie Mercury and performed with Princess Diana, becoming her close friend.
Wayne will be in conversation with Dame Monica Mason DBE, former ballet dancer and director of The Royal Ballet.
This event will also be live streamed - you have the option to watch in the venue or online.
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| Date | Monday 11th November 2024 | |
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| Time | 7:30 PM | |
| Doors Open | 7:00 PM | |
| Venue | High Street Baptist Church | |
Behind the glitz and glamour, Wayne has always felt like an outsider. Sleep reveals the difficulties for a working-class, gay man in handling the prejudices of his generation and living through the Aids epidemic. Wayne was also the shortest principal dancer to ever get into the Royal Ballet - he had to spin twice as fast and jump twice as high to succeed.In this moving - but also laugh-out-loud and gossip filled - memoir, Wayne Sleep shows how he danced his way to success, fulfilment and love, and how he overcame obstacles and prejudice along the way.
ABOUT WAYNE SLEEP
Wayne Sleep won a scholarship, out of 250 hopefuls, to the Royal Ballet School in 1961 and joined the Royal Ballet Company in 1966, becoming a Senior Principal Dancer. He has also worked as an actor, including in musical theatre, plays, film and television, and as a choreographer he created, directed and appeared in DASH, which for the first time incorporated all genres (including ballet, jazz, tap, and contemporary). He was appointed OBE in 1998 and is the patron of a number of charities. His own chairty, The Wayne Sleep Foundation, was founded in 1998, and has supported students who have gained places at established arts intitutions. He lives in London and has two entries in the Guinness Book of Records, was nominated for two Olivier Awards (formally SWET), and was named Show Business Personality of the Year from The Royal Variety Club of Great Britain.