The English connection
NO, no, noooo, Matthew,” lamented my old ballet master from Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), Desmond Kelly. “Your gesture is too laid-back and Australian.” Mr Kelly was of course right. I mimed my princely “I love you” more “I love you, mate!” And Sir Peter Wright’s Prince Siegfried would never be so familiar. My foot position was all wrong as well, being more platypus inspired (flat-footed) than court trained (cocked knee at 45
