Ballet isn’t gender-specific; films like Billy Elliot helped to inspire boys worldwide to bump up their muscles with ballet, and even professional footballers can be found taking classes to help ...

But Lemuel Ma and Wesley Matsuharu Lai, two teen dancers in the Hong Kong Ballet’s Classical Training Programme, know that boys also have a place in ballet. Lemuel and Wesley, both 14 ...

The first steps in his ballet career were taken in his local dance school where he was the only boy in attendance. "There's the stereotype – boys don't do ballet," Christopher explains.