The movement director Coral Messam is describing her experience of a stroke. “It’s a horror movie. It’s a betrayal. From the time I was conceived, I was meant to move. This is far, far from who I was. It is soul destroying to the maximum.”
When it happened in 2023, the Wolverhampton-born choreographer had just created the explosive dance in Steve McQueen’s film Blitz, and was preparing Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the spectacular stage prequel to the Netflix hit.
