The hardest part is not showing the audience how tired you are.
From the very second the performance starts, you're trying to show this illusion of effortlessness, and every single step takes a lot of effort, and it's taken years and years of a lot of practice.
People would be quite shocked in how much it takes to look like that.
Every time I step off stage, no matter how I felt before the performance, is like, I want to go and do it all over again.
Hello, my name's Francesca Hayward, and I'm going to tell you about my dreams.
Most people look at ballet and see art, beauty, elegance, but I want to start somewhere different.
How much of what you do is pure athletics?
I think what drew me to ballet in the 1st place was the expression and the artistry and the telling of the story, but as I actually started to learn ballet and, you know, take it very seriously.
It gets much harder, the more, you know, experience you get.
And now at a professional level, what's quite incredible that I didn't realize before was quite like how physical it is every single day.
