Tamara Rojo spent 27 years in London before moving to San Francisco just over a year ago. Apart from friends and the theatres, she doesn’t miss it at all. She has sunshine, the sea and a 10-minute walk to work (as opposed to a 90-minute commute). “I really love the city, it feels like home,” she says.
London misses her, though. The Spanish ballerina was an astonishing dancer with the Royal Ballet, then an impressive artistic director of English National Ballet and an important voice in lobbying for the arts. But in December 2022 she took up the role of artistic director at America’s oldest ballet company, San Francisco Ballet, after Helgi Tómasson’s 37 years at the helm.
