The notorious Michael Clark was once known as the enfant terrible of dance. Famed for his outrageous style and wild ways, he stuck two fingers up at the dance establishment of the Eighties.

Sex, drugs and rock and roll, he was a true rebel - a dancer with the spirit of a rock star. What The Fall and The Clash played, Clark danced to, incorporating punk culture into his work, along with sex toys and giant pornographic sculptures.

Then came an addiction to heroin, the beginning of a spectacular fall, rise and re-invention. Now, at the age of 44, he is older, wiser and calmer but, reassuringly for fans, still wears his safety-pin earring.

Clark is now one-third of the way into The Stravinsky Project for London's Barbican, which will see him reinterpret three ballet scores, including The Rite Of Spring and Les Noces.

He begins with Stravinsky's Apollo, reworking his own unfinished O (1994) into a two-part piece, with live music from the Aurora orchestra. O pays homage to George Balanchine's dance Apollo (1928), the signature work of his New York City Ballet in the Fifties.

As an appetiser, first comes OO, which, danced to a deafening punk score of Iggy Pop and Wire, has all the Clark trademarks. He also appears in the piece.

When Clark first approached Apollo in 1994, his own heroin-fuelled universe was in meltdown and he would soon retreat for four years to his mother's home in Scotland. He emerged clean and retrained, with a new project, Current/SEE - the next step of his flamboyant journey.

Michael's first dance steps were taken at the age of four, at Highland gatherings in his native Aberdeen.

He left home at 13 for the Royal Ballet School in London. The hedonistic lifestyle of London was appealing to him and, despite being seen as a teenage prodigy, he was threatened with expulsion after being caught sniffing glue.

He went on to turn down a place at the Royal Ballet, aged 17. In 1979, he moved to Ballet Rambert, working with Richard Alston.

Clark became determined to make contemporary dance relevant to a new generation by incorporating contemporary music, fine art, film, literature and fashion design, and quickly formed his own dance company.

He says of Apollo: "It's very different music - more neo-classical, less primitive. It's one of my most pure pieces."

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