From my desk I can look down into the Joffrey Academy studios and
see young dancers who are learning the tools to possibly be a Joffrey ballerina in their future and I can also hear the company dancing above us; it's an amazing juxtaposition.
Not exact matches
Director Mahamat Saleh Haroun spends no time establishing the main draw of Grigris «title character; in the opening moments we
see the
young, disabled
dancer (played by non-professional Souleymane Démé) busting some moves on the dance floor to a rapturous audience.
KW: Harriet Pakula Teweles asks: Since our country does not have the kind of state system we
see in «Mao's Last
Dancer,» a bio-pic set in China where children are recruited at an early age and trained at state expense, how can we find our talented
young artists, especially among the youth whose parents can't afford private lessons?
When the
dancers and I visit groups at their sites in the early stages of the project, we regularly
see young people doubting themselves, the process and the project.