Ebullient, articulate and eminently sensible, Rosie Kay never wanted to be a martyr to the culture wars. A modern dance choreographer with an impressive track record – including 5 Soldiers, an award-winning exploration of army life, contributions to the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics and a fellowship at Oxford – she would rather be getting on with the business of creating new work for her small dance company. But she’s been given no choice – and all because of a party she held in August 2021 at her home in Birmingham.
There were demands for her to be ‘re-educated’ in ‘gender intelligence’
Half-way through rehearsals for a new production of Romeo and Juliet, Kay felt that the dancers were struggling with morale after lockdown and that it would be nice to socialise. Things got well-lubricated after midnight, ‘and we were all on edge, tired and vulnerable’. ‘My husband wanted to kick everyone out, but my manager at the time thought we should keep the cast there to stop them going clubbing and risk contracting Covid,’ she said.
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