| The perils and pirouettes of staging a ballet aboard the Queen Mary 2

The Cunard line’s flagship offers passengers a rare opportunity for performances at sea with the English National Ballet.

Now you’re being asked to perform them all on an undulating platform, whose unpredictable shifts could easily topple those scintillating pirouettes and relevés.

Or, as Castilla put it: “The first day of rehearsal, it was rough. I remember waking up and hearing the creaking of the wood. It was really scary.” The week-long sharing of sea air with the London-based ballet company, founded in 1950 by dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin and producer Julian Braunsweg, accorded passengers a unique peek behind the scenes. Three formal performances and 16 workshops, classes, discussions and rehearsals were open to the Queen Mary’s voyagers on this crossing, the company’s second with Cunard .

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