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A decision by his father to send him to ballet school changed the direction of Carlos Acosta鈥檚 life. Thanks to Fidel Castro鈥檚 belief that art should be accessible to all Cubans he received free ballet tuition. It shaped his character, and secured his future. Now he wants to give something back to his country by saving an abandoned ballet school in Havana. Vittorio Garatti鈥檚 School of Ballet is an extraordinary labyrinth of corridors, graceful arches and majestic brick and terracotta domes, and has been described as one of the most remarkable buildings of the 20th Century. But the ballet star鈥檚 attempts to restore the building have stirred Latin passions and protest.