At 86, Noel Tovey AM moves carefully, but with considered grace, around his small Hawthorn flat in Melbourne. He is surrounded by artworks and mementos of a stellar career in the arts.
For a man whose passion for dance and movement led him to the world stage, to be now reliant on a wheelchair — the result of an amputated leg due to cancer — must prove frustrating. But Noel is also a survivor, and his life demonstrates the character of a man who has managed to overcome extreme hardship time and again.
