Most ballet dancers get started as young children, while their bodies and minds are most pliable for learning the discipline. But Antonio White, 21, didn’t step foot in a dance studio until well into his teenage years.
“I saw it on TV a long time ago, and I always wanted to do it,” he said about his aspirations to become a dancer, adding that he discussed it with everybody he knew.
But given White’s economic circumstances, paying expensive tuition and buying pricey dance wear wasn’t an option. He and his mother were evicted from their Cincinnati apartment when he was 15 years old, and they spent many months moving between homeless shelters and the homes of family and friends.
[For more on this story by Liz Brazile, go to https://www.yesmagazine.org/pe...torytelling-20190121]
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