Two years after failing to become a permanent member of the Paris Opera Ballet ... Tsukada at the Hakucho Ballet Academy in Nagano city in his fifth year at elementary school.

Paris Opera has lost more than $13.3 million ... having sacrificed most of their lives to the ballet, he told AFP. Almost all come through the ballet's training school as children. As it stands, the ...

At 14, he got a place at the Paris Opera Ballet School and in August this year - a month before his 19th birthday - he had secured a long-term contract at the Paris Opera Ballet, and is currently ...