“I was in Warsaw rehearsing with Polish National Ballet Manuel Legri’s Le Corsaire, which was supposed to première the week after. We had just finished the run through with our cast when the direction entered the room and said the theatre was closed from that point and everything was cancelled for the next few weeks. Luckily, I had a flight back to Berlin that evening. But, the next day, the same thing happened in Berlin. I remember feeling disbelief and huge frustration at t