Time & Perspective Quote by Deborah Bull

Restless ambition is doing the talking here, not humblebrag. Deborah Bull frames her life as an overlap of stages: the prestige of the Royal Opera House on one side, the mass reach of television and the intellectual pull of science on the other. The sentence is built like a controlled pivot. "At the moment" quietly shrinks ballet’s supposed permanence into a season, a project, a chapter. Then "but" arrives, and with it a refusal to be neatly categorized.

For a dancer, this is a small act of cultural rebellion. Ballet institutions trade on the myth of total devotion: your body is the job, your identity is the company, your future is the next role. Bull’s wording keeps the reverence ("enjoying", "new challenge") while signaling she won’t be sealed inside the velvet box. "Keen to pursue" is polite language for strategic expansion: not dabbling, not daydreaming, but a planned second act.

The most revealing detail is the pairing of television and science. TV suggests translation - taking specialized worlds and making them legible, even entertaining. Science signals curiosity with teeth, a desire for systems, evidence, and explanation rather than pure aesthetic intuition. Coming from a dancer, it also hints at a critique of how dance is discussed: too often as mystery or magic, not as craft with biomechanics, cognition, and discipline.

Contextually, it reads like a career moment when artists were beginning to be expected to brand themselves across platforms. Bull doesn’t sell a brand; she asserts range - and stakes a claim that a ballerina can be both elite performer and public intellectual.