Xander Parish

Xander Parish, born in Hull, is the first British ballet dancer to be employed by the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. xanderparish.com

Diary of a dancer

Russian ballet dancers used to defect to the West, but two years ago Xander Parish left the Royal Ballet for St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Ballet. Extracts from his diary, from his first Giselle in St Petersburg to Scheherezade in Abu Dhabi, give a vivid illustration of the life of a dancer

By Xander Parish

/ 3 May 2013