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Despite Kenya’s burgeoning dance scene, the country does not host a professional ballet company

For the past four years, Bravian has dedicated himself to ballet and is now part of a group of approximately 100 children who have been preparing for mo

Kenya’s pre-eminent and most diverse dance school is committed to teaching talented dancers, irrespective of their ability to pay for training. The photographer Luis Tato watched the company rehearse and perform the Nutcracker, the classical ballet traditionally performed at Christmas, at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi

Bravian Mise hits a series of grand jetes -- leaping like a gazelle across the cramped living room -- and pirouettes during an exhaustive rehearsal at his home in a Kenyan slum.- 'An inspiration' - Bravian does his daily exercises in a small room, undisturbed by the loud music from a nearby bar. 

Bravian Mise does a series of long throws and pirouettes in the narrow living room of a tin-roofed house in a slum in the Kenyan capital. The thirteen-year-old takes up classical dance in the hope of one day becoming a professional.

DCK is a company that has specialised in teaching and performing ballet, a Western form of dance that Cooper Rust has had a big hand in awakening local interest.

Dancers Caleb Thomas and Sakura Oka Columbia Music Festival Association will present Ann Brodie’s Carolina Ballet production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Friday, April 28, at 10 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Township Auditorium. This glittering, fanciful production of William Shakespeare’s immortal classic is one of the signature ballet works of Carolina Ballet. The

Gala Night at Mid-Summer Night’s Dream was an enchanting affair filled with fantasy and an abundance of fairies, nymphs and ethereal creatures who carried magic on their wings.

Performing ‘The Nutcracker’ at Christmas time is a tradition shared among nearly all the ballet dance companies around the world.

Dance Centre Kenya will be offering up a heap of wisdom this coming weekend and on Huduma Day when they stage ‘Aesop’s Fables’ at Braeburn Theatre, Gitanga Road.