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Theatre here is diverse, democratic and largely unburdened by the class system that defines English theatre.
Nevertheless, here she is, 12 months later, about to dance Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, the ballet which, more than any other, defines English classicism.
Save for an obsession with cups of tea and apologising, nothing defines English culture more than William Shakespeare.
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I think it goes back to university and the so-called canon, which has long defined English literature as essentially white.
Created for the Royal Ballet, the two classics are signature works by Sir Frederick Ashton, a choreographer who in many ways defined English ballet in the 20th century.
"The play is about the power of language defining (English) classes, but I've always said this is an American musical.
The director is Lindsay Posner, whose reappraisal of another defining English play, Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," will have its own commercial transfer this month.
Ashton's choreography has always defined English classicism and it's widely assumed that the fleet, decorative elegance of his style works best on the bodies of small English ballerinas.
To define English dancing is as impossible as it ever was, but take the larkiness of the Boyz, the determination of Lauren Cuthbertson and the secret rapture of Darcey Bussell and you're getting close to it.
It also came to define English football.
There is the question of how to define English.
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