“I do think we need to work harder to make sure that everyone has an equal opportunity to make that work. And for some reason, even though we might not be deliberately favouring men and giving them more opportunities. I think that’s what has been the case in the past, but it is changing and that the conversation is being had is really, really important.”

“I think it makes dance writing one of the most difficult but also the most fun of the kind of critical disciplines if you like, because you are having to describe as well as analyses and judge - you're having a lots of the people who you hopefully come to read you, won't have seen the show because say it's a very short run - they very often have no kind of reproduction so its a kind of record of the show.”