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Marcelino Sambé: 'Ballet should not be just for elite kids' by Kate Kellaway

It's a fairytale: the young dancer in a poor Lisbon suburb who makes it to principal at a world class company. But more underprivileged children should get a chance, says the Royal Ballet's rising star"My earliest memory of dancing," Marcelino Sambé says, "is of being at a community centre for children from troubled families, in Alto da Loba, on the outskirts of Lisbon, where I was born." We are talking in an office…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM on October 6, 2019

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