In one of the alleys of a poor neighborhood in the highlands of Lima, the capital of Peru, dance teacher Maria del Carmen Silva organizes ballet exercises for children suffering from poverty and marginalization.
In one of the alleys of a poor neighborhood in the highlands of Lima, the capital of Peru, dance teacher Maria del Carmen Silva organizes ballet exercises for children suffering from poverty and marginalization.
The former dancer of the Peruvian and Chilean National Ballet, who launched a project to improve the lives of children through ballet, says that she seeks to challenge the “bourgeois” stereotype that surrounds this art, and through this initiative she tries to “bring some beauty to a place where everything looks ugly.” providing a drop of light where everything is black.”
