So I was at the ballet a couple of nights back, here in Tokyo, Japan, on assignment to photograph at the Royal Ballet’s ‘Romeo And Juliet’. Great stuff, great access (thanks R.N.), great help from the company and dancers. There’s nothing beats being in a changing room with 30 female dancers, or backstage as Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet thunders out, or snapping away as the stagehands wheel huge angel candelabras past you, or walking down the corridor and two monks from Venice from the last century pass by. How can you go wrong ?

See the online slideshow of photographs of backstage at the Royal Ballet here at the Guardian, and my full take of photographs from Royal Ballet’s Romeo And Juliet here on my archive.