CENTRE STAGE
To hear Precious Adams talk about why she fell in love with dancing, it all makes sense. “There’s so much possibility, when you see the right performance, something just clicks and you’re like, ‘Oh, my God!’, I want to be able to do whatever I want with my body’.”
‘YOU CAN BE OBSESSED WITH BEING AMAZING. YOU’RE SEARCHING FOR THAT’
She also talks about chasing a hope of having enough physical ability to express anything. “You can become obsessed with being amazing, technically and artistically. So you’re constantly searching for that.” Achieving this is something she demonstrates on set, she turned up with a yoga mat and duly warmed up for half an hour before the cover shoot commenced.
Precious, who is one of English National Ballet’s foremost dancers, has been working towards the revered position she now holds as junior soloist since she was four-years-old, dancing around her living room in Michigan, mid-west America. Although, perhaps she didn’t know her calling quite that early.
“My mum always had this vision about having two graceful daughters [her younger sister Portia, is now a dancer with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo], but as a child there was nothing airy-fairy about me, I was a scruffy little toddler,” she laughs. “But I had a lot of energy. I still do, I’m kind of hyperactive.”
Putting this boundless spirit to good
