Marianela Núñez: 'What lockdown taught me, one more time, is that dance is my true passion'
The Royal Ballet's phenomenal principal dancer was the fixed star at the heart of an extraordinary year for the company See the Observer's faces of 2021 in full It's been an oddly fractured year for dance. Repeated lockdowns stifled talent, thwarted new ideas. Online and outdoor offerings provided some release but when theatres reopened in May, dancers emerged as if from hibernation, full of life, anxious to get on w…