Die wahre Lebensgeschichte einer Top-Ballerina Sie ist 19 und erzählt davon, dass Träume wahr werden können. Michaela DePrince wächst im kriegszerrütteten Sierra Leone in einem Waisenhaus auf. Sie ist dort »Nummer 27«, wegen der Flecken auf ihrer Haut geächtet als »Teufelskind«. Als sie mit vier ein vergilbtes Magazincover mit dem Bild einer Ballerina findet, gibt es ihr Hoffnung: Sie will so werden wie diese strahlende Frau im Tutu. Dann wird sie überraschend in die USA adoptiert, wächst behütet und geliebt auf. Mit fünf erhält sie erste Ballettstunden, später Stipendien für die renommiertesten Ballettschulen der USA. Mit dem Dokumentarfilm »First Position« tanzt sie sich 2012 in die Herzen der Menschen – und zählt heute zu den Top-Nachwuchsballerinas der Welt. Mit farbigen Fotos im Innenteil. Ausstattung: Mit fbg. Fotos
Michaela DePrince Bücher
Michaela DePrince's Weg ist geprägt von außergewöhnlicher Widerstandsfähigkeit, geboren im Chaos des Krieges in Sierra Leone. Ihre Leidenschaft für das Ballett entfachte durch eine zufällige Begegnung mit einem Magazinbild, das ihren Entschluss weckte, Widrigkeiten zu überwinden. Nach der Adoption in eine unterstützende amerikanische Familie perfektionierte sie ihre Fähigkeiten und durchbrach die Grenzen konventioneller Schönheit und rassischer Vorurteile in der anspruchsvollen Welt des Tanzes. DePrince hat sich als professionelle Tänzerin etabliert und nutzt ihre Geschichte, um junge Menschen zu inspirieren, durchzuhalten und ihre Träume zu verfolgen.






Ballerina Dreams
- 80 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
She has been dancing ever since, and after a spell as a principal dancer in New York, now dances for the Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam. Beautifully and gently illustrated by Ella Okstad, Ballerina Dreams is the younger-reader edition of Michaela DePrince's highly moving memoir, Hope in a Ballet Shoe.
Taking Flight
- 256 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
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. 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. In this engaging, moving, and unforgettable memoir, Michaela shares her dramatic journey from an orphan in West Africa to becoming one of ballet's most exciting rising stars
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- 255 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
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