Alessandra Ferri: ‘Dancing with Nureyev, I swear he had an energetic aura around him’
Born in Milan in 1963, Alessandra Ferri was a principal with the Royal Ballet at 19, and two years later was invited by Mikhail Baryshnikov to join American Ballet Theatre. After a glittering career, she retired in 2007 before returning in 2013. She is now in the rare position of being a leading dancer performing internationally at the age of nearly 60. From next week she is at the Royal Opera House in a revival of Woolf Works, a ballet about the life and writing of Virginia Woolf, created for her in 2015 by Wayne McGregor.
