Philip Martin-Nielson: an autistic life transformed by dance
He was told his autism meant he could never have an independent life " but the non-verbal world of dance changed everything"My favourite role is definitely Odette. I grew up obsessing with it. I knew every detail." At 21, Philip Martin-Nielson is fulfilling his childhood fantasy of dancing with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the all-male New York company who have turned ballerina transvestism into a sublimely…