1. When Billy describes his dancing and the feeling that he gets from it he says that he forgets everything and feels as if there's a fire in his body and that he feels he disappears. I believe that Billy is describing his feeling of freedom in a world were for him, freedom is almost unattainable in many circumstances. I got this feeling earlier today, driving through the country-side, through open paddocks and fields with rolling slopes and the mountains in the background. I felt peaceful and free and as if nothing mattered.
2. When the boy had to shift schools to escape persecution because he did ballet it is to me an indication that that school was probably quite a rough school. At my school