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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Dalya Alberge

Royal Ballet performance will have a dancer who uses a wheelchair

Kristen McNally and Joe Powell
Kristen McNally and Joe Powell in the Royal Ballet’s Draft Works, with choreography by McNally. Photograph: Asya Verzhbinsky

The Royal Ballet is staging a performance in which one of its dancers performs a duet with a disabled dancer, recognising that being inclusive is “not just about diversity of race, but also about diversity of physical ability”.

Joe Powell-Main, who uses a wheelchair and crutches to perform and describes himself as a “differently abled dancer”, will appear with the Royal Ballet dancer Isabel Lubach in a lyrical piece created for the Greenwich + Docklands international festival next month.

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