And Another Thing . . .
The Sunday Age
Sunday June 22, 2008
ADAM Bull's story seems made for the movies. In the late 1980s in Laverton, in Melbourne's west, a curly-haired little boy is transfixed by the fancy footwork of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. And so he decides, at just six, that he wants to be a dancer, too. Crucially, he is encouraged to follow that dream by his year 1 teacher and his parents, putting on performances at school for his classmates. Twenty years later, that same curly-haired boy has just become a principal artist with the Australian Ballet, a star in his own right. The question is: would he have found his way to ballet without that early support? Of course, that's difficult to say, but there's no doubt it made his journey a lot easier.
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