Where were you standing? What could you hear?

Oh, it was so exciting.

But I look back on it now, and I don't want to be negative, but why just one simple performance? And everything had gone into that.

The decor, the costume making, the staging, inviting at that time the governor general to come and his wife and the mayor of Ottawa.

It was simply fantastic.

And of course, for me, the exciting part to have a star from the ballet company come and do Albrecht.

the lead, and he was such a gentleman for me.

What was company life really like, the touring, the money, the cold?