Culture: Steps Ahead ; with Birmingham Royal Ballet Touring China, Diane Parkes Catches Up with One Young Star

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Teenager Rex Wheeler could not believe his ears when he was invited to join Birmingham Royal Ballet on a three week tour of China.

The pupil at Elmhurst School for Dance in Edgbaston had toured the UK with the ballet company but never imagined being invited abroad.

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Culture: Steps Ahead ; with Birmingham Royal Ballet Touring China, Diane Parkes Catches Up with One Young Star

"I was called in by the school's artistic director Desmond Kelly and he just said very casually that Birmingham Royal Ballet wanted me to come to China with them," Rex recalls. "I think I was just jumping around."

A few weeks later and the 18-year-old is onstage with the company ...

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