With no access to ballet schools in Lagos’s exclusive suburbs, Daniel Owoseni decided to teach himself after watching Save the Last Dance. Now, he owns the Leap Academy of Dance for kids like himself who cannot afford the luxury of ballet classes.
has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times over. In a moment when our social media channels have been flooded with unsettling news, the vision of the 11-year-old pirouetting over puddles is especially uplifting. As Viola Davis put it in a caption on Twitter, it was a reminder of “the beauty of my people.
It was at that point that Owoseni decided he would take matters into his own hands and fulfill his dream of opening a ballet school in his hometown for kids like himself who couldn’t afford the luxury of ballet classes. “I had a picture in my head of what I wanted the dancers and my school to look like,” says Owoseni, who started teaching out of his home before a local businesswoman offered him a free space where he now holds weekly sessions.
“People say that you can never do ballet the way it is done abroad because ballet is not an African dance, but for me it's about making the art form our own,” says Oweseni who is moments away from teaching his next class as our Zoom call comes to an end. Beyond the unprecedented attention that the academy has received from all over the world, he’s clearly most impressed by the unwavering commitment and dedication of his own pupils.
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