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A Joburg Ballet dance instructor leads a class of girls learning ballet at Uncle Tom’s Community Center in Soweto. PHOTO: Alex Hargrave '20

Township satellite schools nurture black children’s dreams to be ballet dancers

Kaila Mundell-Hill August 5, 2019

Soweto, South Africa -- In a small dance studio in a community center in the township of Soweto, six young black girls decked out in pink stood in first position at the barre.  This small troupe of...

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