This is the story of an 11-year-old working-class boy in a Northern English mining town during the miners' strike, Billy discovers an unexpected passion for ballet, challenging family tradition and societal expectations as he strives to pursue his dream of becoming a dancer, a journey balanced with the community's struggle against industry decline and his own coming-of-age
“The show takes an awful lot of maintenance and one is always in the process of auditioning, training and rehearsing new Billies into the show… So much of the dance in this show is different to most other shows because it’s directly narrative, so dance as narrative is quite a tricky thing to get around, as an idea.”
