Art imitating life: Royal Ballet principal dancer Steven McRae reveals his most personal work yet

‘What’s that saying, life imitating art?’ ponders Steven McRae. It’s a fitting phrase: the Royal Ballet principal dancer stands in the Covent Garden studio, daylight flooding in like a spotlight as a costumer pins into place his old Hollywood, tailcoat-style costume. (The press release, I note, describes the dancer as a modern-day Fred Astaire, a compliment at which…