'Dance is beautiful': Kenyan slum reaches for ballet stars
Dance Centre Kenya student Bravian Mise (C) shows some dancing moves to his mother Rehema Mwikali (L) inside their home at the Kuwinda informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya on November 27, 2023. PHOTO | AFP
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.
The 13-year-old has been practising ballet for four years and is among a hundred or so children who have been rehearsing for months to perform Tchaikovsky's Christmastime favourite "The Nutcracker" in Kenya's capital Nairobi.
