thesmithian: Michaela DePrince was little more than a toddler when she saw her first ballerina—an image in a magazine page blown against the gate of the orphanage where she ended up during Sierra Leone’s civil war. It showed an American ballet dancer posed on tip toe… more.

thesmithian:

Michaela DePrince was little more than a toddler when she saw her first ballerina—an image in a magazine page blown against the gate of the orphanage where she ended up during Sierra Leone’s civil war. It showed an American ballet dancer posed on tip toe…

more.