Thursday, July 12, 2012

Michaela DePrince: African ballerina rises to top, inspires young girls

Michaela DePrince. PHOTO/First Position

Michaela DePrince was little more than a toddler when she saw her first ballerina — an image in a magazine page blown against the gate of the orphanage where she ended up during Sierra Leone's civil war. It showed an American ballet dancer posed on tip toe.

"All I remember is she looked really, really happy," Michaela DePrince told The Associated Press this earlier week. She wished "to become this exact person."

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