I became a dancer sort of by some wonderful stroke of luck really. I started as a child aged four once a week and then I suppose when I was about ten or eleven I became more serious more about it and wanted to do two or three times a week. My mother brought me from South Africa to England when I was 14. My wish, my aim, was to join the Royal Ballet School which I did. I failed my first audition, so I took it again. I was absolutely determined having failed it because there is nothing like a drop of failure for sorting out what your feelings really are. I joined the Royal Ballet School and after one year there I was a member of the Royal Ballet.