They encouraged him to develop his game in Europe.
He studied at Newbattle Abbey College, near Edinburgh, where Orkney poet Edwin Muir encouraged him to develop his craft.
Hamada encouraged him to develop his own style of work, beyond the basic tenets of mingei.
His isolation had encouraged him to develop his own voice, but since he was primarily self-taught in his early years, he had developed some bad habits.
Meanwhile he had visited Switzerland and had met Carl Maria von Weber, whose opera Der Freischütz, given in Berlin in 1821, encouraged him to develop a national character in music.
The school has encouraged him to develop all parts of who he is, which includes being a Muslim, giving him the opportunity to express his faith if he so chooses.
Born in Batley, Yorkshire, the son Arthur Grace, a dry-stone-waller, and Kitty Nicholson, he went to the local technical college, where a teacher encouraged him to develop his writing skills.
Once Hazlewood had absorbed the basics, Connolly encouraged him to develop a short solo featuring more complex steps – though he nearly came to grief attempting a tricky manoeuvre known as Charlie Chaplin Clicks, so named as it was the signature move of Chaplin's character the Little Tramp.
Patel admits that the "generosity of the dance community" in funding and embracing his work has encouraged him to develop the choreographic element more extensively – though even now, when he collaborates with a choreographer, Patel will never describe himself as a dance professional.
