‘I was on the top of the world. Then I couldn’t walk’: go-to choreographer Coral Messam

She had just finished working with Steve McQueen and was starting on the Stranger Things stage show when she had a stroke. But the movement director is determined to come back strongerThe movement director Coral Messam is describing her experience of a stroke. “It’s a horror movie. It’s a betrayal. From the time I was conceived, I was meant to move. This is far, far from who I was. It is soul destroying to the maximum.”When it happened in 2023, the Wolverhampton-born choreographer had just created the explosive dance in Steve McQueen’s film Blitz, and was preparing Stranger Things: The First Shadow, the spectacular stage prequel to the Netflix hit. Continue reading...

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