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Ghetto Ballet

Dec 30, 2009

0h 35m

★ 0.0

For a way out, they had to stay on their toes.

Overview

Gehtto Ballet follows the inter-linked stories of a number of students in a groundbreaking program called Dance For All. The raison d'etre of the program - founded by Philip Boyd and his late wife Phyllis Spira - is to give disadvantaged kids in the townships the opportunity to study ballet and, if they are lucky, find a way out by joining a professional ballet company.

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World of Wonder

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