of, working with the greatest ballerinas and choreographers, the full support of my director, kevin o'harefor everybody around me, there was no chance that anybody was witnessing any sniff of burnout from me because it looked as if i was flying high. but are you saying that burnout and its effect is not only psychological, that perhaps there was something that made you weaker and made that injury more likely? yeah, genuinely, if you look at our profession, the workload is too high. and the royal ballet has really tried to embrace the need for change in this area. so, we have an incredible sports department, we have a medical team now where we have sports scientists tracking workload — how manyjumps we're performing in that particular ballet and how does that overlap with the multiple productions. so, the company are very much pushing ahead and trying to find new ways. now. but at the time... of course. at the time, that was not the case. it was very much that environment that of course, you say yes to everything. people still want to say that this career is short, so in your head, if you s