“After bolting from the National Ballet in 2005 (unhappy at the ramifications that came with the new Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts) and pulling up the drawbridge (this past summer he opened a bakery in Vittoria, Ont., population 600), Kudelka re-emerged to find himself not exactly at the top of the call list any more. ‘I woke up a year ago and thought, ‘Okay, I’ve got to start thinking about work’.”