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Dance in the townships of Cape Town.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dance in the townships of Cape Town.(Philip Boyd, director of Dance for All has brought dance to the impoverished children of Cape Town)

Article Excerpt
Twelve children stand in bare feet holding onto rickety chairs, wearing hand-me-down leotards or torn underclothes. They have no regulation dance clothes or satin shoes, yet with straight backs and looks of pride on their faces, they execute ballet exercises to crackling, taped music.

These dozen dancers are part of the Dance for All project and come from several of the poverty-stricken townships on the dusty outskirts of South Africa's Cape Town, one of the most beautiful and dramatic cities in the world. Like most township children, these youngsters live in tumbledown, corrugated iron and wooden shacks that are often packed tightly together on litter-strewn ground, according to Philip Boyd, director of Dance for All. These makeshift villages are where many black South Africans were forced to move during the violent and...

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