Hong Kong Ballet’s artistic director Septime Webre followed his sister to ballet school and never looked back
Artistic Director of the Hong Kong Ballet, Septime Webre, at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, in Tsim Sha Tsui. Photo: SCMP / Xiaomei Chen
The seventh son: I'm the seventh son in a family of eight brothers and one sister. My six older brothers were all born and brought up in Cuba. My mother was Cuban and my father American. They left Cuba during the revolution and I was born in the United States soon after they arrived in the early 1960s.
As a small child, we moved to the Bahamas and my first memories are of a beautiful island with a gorgeous white beach and blue water. There were only four kids in my class at school. My dad had a sugar plantation in Cuba and was an engineer who designed sugar mills.