
Adam Elmes
Photo Kate Longley
When did you know you wanted ballet to be your career?
I knew I wanted to be a dancer since I was five. Perhaps it was because my mother and sisters were (and I’d do anything to be like them). I have a diary entry I wrote back in 2005 saying I would someday become a dancer. I didn’t decide to pursue ballet specifically until I joined The Australian Ballet School in 2016. I had always struggled with ballets rigidity and structure, but I slowly learned to understand how necessary that structure is to push your body and develop it in all areas of movement.