All the while, his ballet slippers remained tucked away. Mr D'Aulnais returned to the ballet studio in his 70s and hasn't looked back. "When I first moved to Noosa, I basically knew nobody," he said.
Still, Ballet Shoes – one of the children arrives with a pair as a babe in arms – is an uplifting injunction for each child to find the talent they were born with and make a life from it ...