<B>A leap back in time</B><BR>Luck has been kind to BRB's new principal, as Caroline Foulkes in The Birmingham Post discovers. <P><BR>At the age of 14 or 15, Michael Revie was given an opportunity originally intended for someone else. It was by chance, not by design. He didn't push himself forward for it, he just got lucky.<P>As a young dancer at the Royal Ballet School in London, he was asked to perform a piece created by an important visitor, a man called David Bintley. He shouldn't really have been in the performance at all, it was just that someone fell sick.<P>And Michael, even though he wasn't even in the right class and wasn't even the right age, was picked to take his place. The piece, called Un Bateau, was one he has never forgotten.<P><A HREF="http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020313005367&query=Revie" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A>