My list: Dancer Natalie Alleston

I'M CURRENTLY READING: A novel called Life after Life, by Kate Atkinson. It has a very unusual structure, because it loops back, time after time to imagine various scenarios that happen to the central character, a girl called Ursula Todd. It's all about imagining what could have happened if you'd taken a different road.
Dancer Natali Alleston.Dancer Natali Alleston.
Dancer Natali Alleston.

I’ve been listening to: The current charts are definitely not for me. I’m more into Motown, and Talking Heads, and if I come back after a hard day of class, rehearsal and an evening performance, then I am more than likely to put on someone like Marvin Gaye to help me unwind.

On TV, I’ve been watching: Deutschland 83, on Channel 4. It’s a brilliant Cold War spy thriller set in 1983, long before the Berlin Wall fell, in which a young East German officer goes undercover to the West to gather vital intelligence about US involvement in the unravelling situation.

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The film I last saw was: The latest in the James Bond franchise, Spectre. It’s not really my genre of movie, but my boyfriend Harry and a few other family members dragged me along. I quite enjoyed it for its sheer escapism.

The live performance I’d recommend is: My granny, who is 90, and my little niece, who is just seven, and I all went to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. We all loved it to bits.

My next box set will be: I’m a great fan of Netflix, so anything from there. My last one was How to Get Away with Murder, and I loved it.

• Natalie Alleston is appearing in Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Triple Bill, which is at West Yorkshire Playhouse from February 17 to 20.

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