Canadian dancer Brock Hayhoe thinks his name is more suited to a porn star.
Hayhoe (20) a tall blond, has just joined the ranks of Cape Town City Ballet with whom he has a year's contract. He will be seen in two ballets in the coming season of Ballets Nouveaux, both of them choreographed by visiting Dutch icon Rudi van Dantzig.
They are Four Last Songs to music by Richard Strauss and Pas de Six to Swan Lake music by Tchaikovsky.
Ballets Nouveaux runs in the Artscape Opera House from Saturday to October 15. It was Van Dantzig who was responsible for bringing Hayhoe to Cape Town.
He has great praise for the veteran Dutch choreographer.
"Rudi was the first to recognise me and give me confidence," he says.
Hayhoe has a wry sense of humour and an amusingly cynical viewpoint which pervades his responses in an interview. He is the youngest of four children in a generally religious Toronto family. Religious he is not, however, or rather not to the extent his siblings. He has told his family he is gay and it is obvious he is completely happy within himself.
He began his dance training at 15 with the National Ballet School in Toronto under the artistic directorship of Mavis Staines. Though he has been involved in ballet for only five years, he has already worked with such world renowned choreographers - apart from Van Dantzig - as Jiri Kylian, Toer van Schayk and James Kudelka at the National Ballet.
Hayhoe's contract with Cape Town City Ballet is his first professional appointment.
Hayhoe says he has always been interested in body movement and used to do gymnastics. Then one day he went with a girlfriend to a ballet class and immediately got caught up in it.
He says he has already fallen in love with Cape Town and the ocean and is now looking around for a pad - when he is not battling with an airline to retrieve a lost suitcase.
Hayhoe has what some may consider a curious ambition; he wants to dance with the New York-based drag troupe, the Trocaderos de Monte Carlo - better known as The Trocks - who visited Cape Town many years ago.
And as Hayhoe said this CTCB's ballet master, Keith Mackintosh, openly winced.