What you see in this book,” says Edward Watson, “feels like another career, almost. It was everything I did off stage.” Watson was the most striking British ballet dancer of his generation; he performed with the Royal Ballet for 27 years before retiring in 2021.
In among a hectic schedule of principal roles, there was a parallel life of photoshoots for magazines, fashion features, book projects and backstage shots. Now, 200 of those images have been gathered in a book, Ed Watson: A Different Dance, one that Watson insists isn’t really about him.
