Pearl Soh, 12, student at the Singapore Ballet Academy When Pearl took her first ballet lesson at the age of four, she burst out in tears.
"I don't remember anything from my first ballet lesson, except that I cried. I was so scared to dance in front of other people. I guess I was too shy," she tells The Sunday Times.
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