How One Brazilian Dancer Is Changing The Lives Of Young Girls Through Ballet
Tuany Nascimento doesn’t expect her students to become professional ballerinas. She has much bigger goals to fulfill.
Tuany Nascimento started dancing classical ballet as a child, an unusual passion for a girl growing up in Alemão, a network of favelas on the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro. “For people from my neighborhood dancing ballet isn’t a common thing,” she said in a short film made by filmmakers Ayelet Vardi and André Lion, featured below.
Although she never danced professionally, Nascimento has always been training, rehearsing ballet in her spare time around her neighborhood. Before long, other girls started watching her with curiosity. So Nascimento invited them to join in.
In 2012, Nascimento launched Na Ponta dos Pés ― or the “On Tip Toes” project ― an open ballet class for girls ages 4 to 15 years old. “I didn’t wake up wanting to have a social project,” she said. “It just happened in a very simple way.” Nascimento now teaces ballet to over 40 young women.
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“I try to show them that they can have much more than this,” she said. “Growing up is beautiful and they don’t have to limit themselves. They have to try and achieve what is beyond. You can’t accept everything as being real. You can’t accept the life you have as being your destiny.”
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