Australian Ballet’s Accidental Dancer

“Being the only boy at a ballet school in the small New Zealand town of Warkworth would make most seven-year-olds nervous. So Ty King-Wall agreed to go along with his frightened friend. … Sixteen years later the blond New Zealander has been elevated from soloist to perform the principal role of Octavian in Graeme Murphy’s The Silver Rose, opening tonight at the Sydney Opera House.”