Deaf teenager excels in community ballet programme in Nairobi informal settlement
Seventeen-year-old Gorrety Akinyi has been able to master the routines by carefully copying her teacher and classmates.
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Seventeen-year-old Gorrety Akinyi has been able to master the routines by carefully copying her teacher and classmates.
The holidays have come early for residents as more than 100 local ballet students perform. They have been practicing every day after school.
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As the sun sets on the narrow streets of Africa's largest informal settlement, children hurry to change from daily clothes into pointe shoes and other ballet gear.
As the sun sets on the narrow streets of Africa's largest informal settlement, children hurry to change from daily clothes into pointe shoes and other ballet gear. Fifteen-year-old Brenda Branice is among the dancers and can’t hide her joy. “I am happy to be a ballerina,” Branice said.