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Ramblingmads Tagged ballet, books, hope in a ballet shoe, michaela deprince, reviews Leave a comment Search for: Recent Posts Written with her adoptive mother’s help, Michaela’s story is brilliant for reminding you that thinks can be achieved and if you work hard dreams happen. I stayed up late reading it, not wanting to put it down, desperate to know whether she achieved her dream. Her story is inspiring, heartbreaking and ultimately full of hope and joy. She and her best friend were adopted by a white couple from America, became sisters and began to dance. For every young brown, yellow, and purple dancer, she is an inspiration Misty Copeland, world-renowned ballet dancer Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a devil child for a skin. Throughout it all she clung to the dream of looking like the ballerina on the front of a magazine she found in the street. 'Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina. Her book takes you from the tragedy of her early years, orphaned by age 4, sold to an orphanage by her uncle, she witnessed the murder of her pregnant teacher and had to flee along with the other children to neighbouring Guinea. She’s got a beautiful smile and dances wonderfully. With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, Michaela authored the book 'Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina. If you’ve seen the documentary First Position, you’ll recognise the teenage Michaela, one of the few black ballerinas around. Michaela DePrince, 24, is a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer. Michaela wanted to be a ballerina too, but her journey would be long, hard and at times painful. Michaela DePrince is currently a dancer with the Dutch National Ballet, before that she was a ballet student in America, and before that she was an orphan in war-torn Sierra Leone.Īs a little girl I wanted to be a ballerina, and although that never worked out, I still do the positions on Underground platforms and try to see as much ballet as I can afford.

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