E14, no. 22 of 28
Sonya, companion in E14
Dancer's posture, thirty two years of opinions, no interest in a loud room.
- Age
- 32
- Works from
- E14
- Height
- 162 cm
- Hair
- long dark brown, straight
- Eyes
- hazel
- Figure
- athletic
- Languages
- English
- An hour opens at
- £250
Guests are 18+. She sets the limits of her own booking, and a fee covers her time and her company, nothing besides. The whole ladder is on the rates page.
About Sonya
Sonya has the shoulders and the posture of a woman who trained seriously at something and stopped at the right time. Height 162 cm, athletic, the dark brown hair long and straight, and hazel eyes that turn greener in daylight than anyone expects. Her clothes are simple to the point of austerity, a black polo neck, wide trousers, a coat with one button done, and the only jewellery is a pair of small gold hoops she has had for a decade. She stands beautifully without appearing to try.
At 32 she is the most composed company here and the least impressed by a view. Her English is exact, and she corrects herself mid sentence when the first word was not quite right. She danced until her knees made the decision for her and now watches other people do it, which she says is better. She is a little formal at first, entirely warm by the second hour, and she has a rule about not discussing work before the first drink is finished, which most people are grateful for.
Her E14 is the unglamorous half of it. Poplar Union on Cottage Street, a small arts building ten minutes north of the towers where the programme runs from dance to a film club to someone's first show, and the bar has about fifteen people in it. She likes that the ticket costs less than a round on the estate. Afterwards it is fifteen minutes on foot back down to the Wharf, or a cab in six. Knightsbridge is home, and she calls the ride east her reading time.
The postcode is described on the E14 page. An hour is £250 with the longer evenings on rates. Ask booking for the first night she is free.
- Height 162 cm, athletic build
- Long dark brown hair, worn straight; eyes hazel
- Age 32, English speaking
- Home district Knightsbridge, evenings across E14
- Out of hours: watching dance, film clubs, black coffee
Booking her evening
A performance and supper together want £700 across three hours. The show with a single drink after is £500. She is off the diary for a fortnight, and Maude is taking dates from the week she is back.
Her figures are the desk figures, printed in full on the rates page, and the whole arrangement runs in one thread from the first line to the confirmation.
- 1 hour£250
- 90 minutes£400
- 2 hours£500
- 3 hours£700
- Dinner date£900
- Overnight£1,800
- WeekendPOA
Also on the desk
An evening with Sonya
This is the booking nobody expects from a financial postcode, which is precisely why she keeps it. Ten minutes north of the towers the estate stops and Poplar begins, and in a small arts building on a side street there is a room with a stage at one end and about fifteen people in the bar. The programme could be contemporary dance, a film, or someone's first hour of work in front of an audience. She watches properly, with the attention of a person who used to be on the other side of it, and afterwards she is precise about what worked and generous about what did not. Then fifteen minutes on foot back down towards the lights, or six by cab, and the evening carries on wherever you have decided.
Sonya, in her own words
When are you back?
A fortnight. I am not in London and I do not take bookings I cannot keep, so the desk will give you a real date rather than a hopeful one.
Do you miss dancing?
Every day for about four years, and then not at all. Now I sit in the dark and watch people do it properly, which is a much better arrangement.
Why not a tower bar?
Because I have been to all of them and they are the same room at different heights. Ten minutes north there is something actually happening.
Where she sits
What guests have written
Nothing is written here for Sonya yet, which is usually what discretion looks like in E14. A note appears only when a guest writes one, she agrees to it, and the desk has checked that it reads as a first name, a month and nothing private.