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Milk transported in Chapada Diamantina Brasil,community of MST (Movimento sem terra)

The Royal Ballet School in Copenhagen, Denmark. They children are 10 years old and take dance lessons every day as part of their regular curriculum. It is hard work even for the small, but it is needed if you want to become the best. Maybe one or two of them will make it to dance in a play on the stage of the royal ballet when they get older.

www.sebastiansardi.com

Projeto Axé is a NGO that uses all branches of art to create what they call the pedagogy of desire. To awaken in those young people in Salvador/Bahia/Brasil their self esteem and to be a mean to social change, and to promote the ethics through estetics. Axé is the result of a dream from Cesare La Roca, and talian that moved to Brazil and founded the organisation that has worked with over 15 thous children over the years, and work with about 1000 per year.

"GOTIPUA : the sacred dancers of Lord Krishna" - For centuries in India, the Gotipua dance tradition has survived in the small village of Raghurajpur, Orissa. In Oriya language, "Goti" means "single" and "Pua" means "boy". This dance is only performed by young acrobat boys who dress up as female to praise Lord Krishna. The classical Odissi dance has taken inspiration from the Gotipua dance, as most of the famous Odissi gurus were Gotipua dancers during their young days.

Balletomane is a charity dance company formed entirely by volunteers who are balancing their careers or studies with their passion for ballet. The company meets every Sunday at Marylebone dance studio in London to practice their shows.

Their principal aim is to bring revisited versions of famous ballet shows to people who are not able to attend to big performances in opera houses; their audience is vast, it ranges from children to elderly people, from disabled to benefit receivers.

Uganda, 2008.
Some students dancing a typical african dance during their break.

...and then home, sailing fantasies

The seaside is the place where most people take photographs. Captured images are often created only for the purpose of taking a photo, they would have not happened otherwise. Photography creates reality, reality does not create photography .