For the first week out on the road we hit the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. This will be our largest stage for this tour and as such proposes new challenges as well as new freedoms. It reminds me a lot of the modern theatres in Australia so I feel very comfortable here, it is a great feeling to be able to dance with copious amounts of space and not have to constrict your movements to a small space.
We started the Edinburgh week with a full run onstage with the opening night cast before performing that night; this is a fairly tight schedule, as it doesn’t give you much time to re-acquaint yourself with the new surroundings.
Thursday was a particularly special day for me as it was my birthday, but to top that of I have breached a new decade. 30 brought a lot of reflection on my life and career. At the end of all that, it makes me so happy that I have chosen to be a dancer, it has seen me work all over the world and live a very full life. And to top it all of on my 30th birthday, there was a matinee and an evening show, so not only did I play Tybalt (an immense blessing on its own), but I got to perform as Romeo. So thank you to everyone who came and enjoyed my shows on Thursday, it was lovely to share such a great moment in my life with you.
Tama as Romeo and Tomomi Sato as Juliet. Photograph by Andrew Ross.