Ten-year-old Kit Faulkner Reeves is part of a new generation of boys bolstering the image of ballet.
Kit, from Brighton, has just been chosen to dance with the National Youth Ballet.
He regards the inevitable taunts and teasing he has to put up with as just a ballet nuisance.
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