Cheryl Angear

Cheryl Angear is an accredited British journalist writing in Print Media (specialist dance press and mainstream media). She is a regular contributor to Dance Today magazine covering the BBC One series Strictly Come Dancing; other credits include The Stage newspaper, The Mail on Sunday (top-selling UK Sunday title with over 1.9 million readers) and its YOU Magazine among others. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists and is also a photographer, specialising in classical ballet.

During her teenage years she was awarded the Queen's Guide Award (the top award within that association) and later studied for a Diploma in Personnel Management.

Ballet News

Angear is founder of Ballet News, launched in 2008, which focuses on classical ballet, ballet dancers and other professionals in the field around the world through InterViews, features, and photographs. During the Strictly Come Dancing season, Cheryl reports live for Ballet News from every show, for three months. Ballet News has a FaceBook page as well as a presence across other social media platforms including Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and Vimeo.

Cupcakes and Conversation

Cupcakes & Conversation is a series of interviews with prominent ballet dancers from the UK and abroad:

American Ballet Theatre

• soloist Yuriko Kajiya, March 6, 2012

• soloist Sascha Radetsky, September 7, 2011

Boston Ballet

• soloist (now principal dancer) Lia Cirio, May 11, 2010
• second soloist (now principal dancer) Jeffrey Cirio, October 5, 2010

• dancer Rachel Cossar, January 1, 2011
• soloist John Lam, January 14, 2011

Dutch National Ballet

• principal dancer Jozef Varga, May 31, 2011

New York City Ballet

• principal dancer Megan Fairchild, July 9, 2010
• soloist Kathryn Morgan, April 18, 2010

• soloist Ana Sophia Scheller, February 18, 2011
• dancer Lydia Wellington, February 8, 2011

Pacific Northwest Ballet

• dancer Carli Samuelson, March 27, 2012

San Francisco Ballet

• principal dancer Maria Kochetkova, April 1, 2010

• principal dancer Vanessa Zahorian, August 11, 2011

Stuttgart Ballet

• principal dancer Myriam Simon, March 22, 2012

Publications

• The Green, Spirit of the Dance: Darcey Bussell Speaks to Cheryl Angear AbOUT Life on Pointe, March 2010, pp. 26–27
• Richmond & Twickenham Times, Royal Ballet dancer Leanne Cope, August 2009

External links

• Writers and Artists Cheryl Angear