She was born in Sierra Leone during the civil war there and was orphaned early. Michaela DePrince is probably one of the most upbeat, positive and, therefore, inspiring people I’ve read about in a long time. She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is currently a member of the Dutch National Ballet’s junior company. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life.Īt the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela DePrince with Elaine DePrinceįrom GoodReads: The extraordinary memoir of Michaela DePrince, a young dancer who escaped war-torn Sierra Leone for the rarefied heights of American ballet.
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