Sylvie Guillem is standing on the stage of the Royal Opera House, the scene of some of her greatest performances. It was here that she traced Juliet’s headlong flight from young innocent to tragic ...

The morning after the night before the world's greatest ballerina, Sylvie Guillem, is moving like the Tin Man as she collects a plateful of breakfast pastries in a Berlin hotel. She's 42 now, but she ...

French dancer Sylvie Guillem is to bring down the curtain on a glittering career that saw her plucked from relative obscurity by Rudolf Nureyev to become the world's most sought after ballerina.

When we first saw Sylvie Guillem perform Sacred Monsters in 2006, the duet felt like a new phase in her career. Partnered by Akram Khan, a dancer without ballet training, she was moving with new ...

Sylvie Guillem has been very clear about her desire to retire from dancing while the pleasure she takes in her work outweighs the physical pain. Yet it still seems incredible that Life in Progress is ...

I am waiting for Sylvie Guillem in the foyer of a hotel in Rome, when a group of women emerge from the lift. They're so immaculately accessorised – small dogs tucked under arms, Gucci handbags ...

On first meeting, in her sleek navy tracksuit and immaculate trainers, Sylvie Guillem, the superstar ballerina, looks like the pro gymnast she used to be as a girl. A star is always a star, but her ...

Ballet dancers Laurent Hilaire and Sylvie Guillem rehearsing at the Royal Ballet School in 1992.(Michael Ward/Getty Images) French ballerina Sylvie Guillem made a name for herself doing things her own ...

She was Rudolf Nureyev’s greatest protege and he nurtured her to stardom. Now, after four decades, Guillem is to retire. She talks about her fights, faults and fears On 30 December, at 4pm in Japan, ...

Sylvie Guillem was different from the very beginning. Born in the suburbs of Paris, to a father who was a car mechanic and a mother who taught gymnastics, she arrived at the Paris Opera Ballet School ...