My daughters Catriona (Catie), Alexandra (Alix) and Fiona (Fifi) have very much been following in their mother’s footsteps (myself, Nica Lee) in attending one of the finest girls’ schools in Hong Kong, Maryknoll Convent School (MCS) although unlike their mother, they were more fortunate in having a Ballet School right at their doorstep at MCS, the Rosalind Lee School of Dancing (RLSD). Our family relocated to Melbourne over 10 years ago. The girls auditioned for the Australian Ballet School (ABS) upon our arrival in Melbourne and they were all accepted - the ABS is the most prestigious ballet school in Australia and the percentage of intake each year into the school is extremely low, I am sure starting young and attending the RLSD must have had some input in their success!

Ballet, as all of us converts know, is a wonderful form of activity for children especially for girls in giving them not only poise but a very disciplined upbringing which has helped them enormously in their school work, and now in higher education for Catie, who unlike Alix and Fifi (twins) is pursuing an academic career studying for a Masters degree in Education at Melbourne University. The twins on the other hand, after graduating from the Australian Ballet School are now, like their mother previously, pursuing a career in professional dancing engaged in ballet companies in Europe. Fifi is dancing with the Romanian National Ballet Company in Bucharest, and Alix is currently on tour with the Murley Dance Company, and will soon be joining the English National Ballet company in their production of Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Albert Hall in London.