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Kenya's Dance Discovery

Before the coronavirus lockdown, professional dancer Joel Kioko returned to his home city Nairobi, meeting dance students emerging from a thriving classical ballet scene in Kenya.

Professional dancer Joel Kioko, who was discovered in the slums of Nairobi, is about to graduate from the English National Ballet School. Before the coronavirus lockdown, he returned to his home city to play Romeo at the Kenyan National Theatre and met many of the young dance students also emerging from a thriving classical ballet scene in Kenya.

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Thu 31 Dec 202015:30GMT
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