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Aug 1, 2010

"The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right. Which one are you?" --Henry Ford

Story of a Ballerina

"She lived in the shanties, the poverty-stricken shanties, but she had a desire far beyond the reach of her environment." Sibahle Tshibika, a ballet dancer from a poor township outside Cape Town, South Africa, is training with a United States ballet company--all because of a documentary, and an email from a caring viewer. "Ghetto Ballet" chronicles four dancers, including Tshibika, as they audition for a dance company in the US. While, Tshibika fails to make the cut at the end of the film, her powerful story moved one viewer to contact the Atlanta Ballet on her behalf. The young dancer shares, "If you believe in something, you should stick on it and be sure that one day it's going to happen--and if it didn't, don't just give up."