{"id":3218,"date":"2014-05-17T20:06:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feelnubia.org.uk\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2025-07-11T20:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T20:08:37","slug":"neo-nubian-michaela-deprince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/index.php\/2014\/louder-culture-and-interviews\/neo-nubian-michaela-deprince\/","title":{"rendered":"Neo Nubian Michaela DePrince: From Orphan to Ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2282\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2282\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2282\" src=\"https:\/\/feelnubia.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-400x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-400x300.png 400w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-650x488.png 650w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-250x188.png 250w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-768x576.png 768w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-150x113.png 150w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-50x38.png 50w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-100x75.png 100w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-200x150.png 200w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-350x263.png 350w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-450x338.png 450w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-500x375.png 500w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-550x413.png 550w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-800x600.png 800w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787-600x450.png 600w, http:\/\/feelnubiatest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/filing-146160_12801-e1752255512787.png 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This article has been archived<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>From Orphan to Ballerina: Michaela DePrince\u2019s Rise Against All Odds<\/h1>\n<p>Michaela DePrince was born Mabinty Bangura in war-torn Sierra Leone on January 6, 1995. She lost both her parents before she was four\u2014her father gunned down by rebels, her mother starved soon after.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>Placed in an orphanage, Mabinty faced hunger, neglect, and cruelty. A rare skin condition, vitiligo, marked her with pale patches on her dark skin. Superstitious caregivers called her the \u201cdevil\u2019s child.\u201d She was given the number 27, the lowest rank in the home\u2014reserved for the least loved. It meant the least food, least clothing, and the least hope.<\/p>\n<h2>A Page in the Wind<\/h2>\n<p>But then came a spark.<\/p>\n<p>One day, a magazine page blew across the orphanage yard. It showed a ballerina\u2014poised on tiptoe, radiant, elegant. That image pierced the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember she looked really, really happy,\u201d Michaela recalled years later. \u201cI wanted to be that exact person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She tucked the torn page into her underwear, the only safe place she had. That image became her beacon.<\/p>\n<h2>Fleeing the Fire<\/h2>\n<p>Soon, word spread that the orphanage would be bombed. Mabinty ran barefoot for miles to a refugee camp. She had nothing but that dream\u2014and her life.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, at just four years old, she was adopted by Elaine and Charles DePrince, a kind American couple from New Jersey. They renamed her Michaela.<\/p>\n<h2>Healing in a New World<\/h2>\n<p>Arriving in the U.S., Michaela was a child scarred by war\u2014physically and emotionally. She had tonsillitis, fever, mono, and swollen joints. Worst of all, she battled constant nightmares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt took a long time to get it out of my memory,\u201d she said. \u201cBut my mom helped me a lot. I wrote a lot to heal. And dance helped me most of all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Step by step, leap by leap, she found freedom in ballet.<\/p>\n<h2>Rising Star, Dancing Light<\/h2>\n<p>Michaela trained hard. At 17, she had already starred in a documentary, performed on Dancing With the Stars, and graduated from both high school and the American Ballet Theatre\u2019s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School.<\/p>\n<p>She was invited to join the Dance Theatre of Harlem and later performed across Europe and the U.S. Her family even moved to New York City to support her blossoming career and her sister\u2019s dreams too.<\/p>\n<h2>Full Circle: Dancing for Africa<\/h2>\n<p>On <strong>July 19<\/strong>, Michaela danced her first full professional ballet\u2014Gulnare in <em>Le Corsaire<\/em>\u2014in South Africa. She shared the stage with the country\u2019s two leading companies: Mzansi Productions and South African Ballet Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>That performance was more than art. It was a return. A way of saying: I made it. And so can you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been through so much,\u201d Michaela said. \u201cNow I know I can help other kids\u2014especially those in really bad situations\u2014believe that they can make it too.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>A Dream for Sierra Leone<\/h2>\n<p>Michaela hasn\u2019t forgotten where she came from. She dreams of returning to Sierra Leone to open a school of dance and the arts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope to inspire a lot of young children,\u201d she said. \u201cNo matter what people tell you, focus on your goals. Do what you want to do. Even if that\u2019s ballet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michaela\u2019s story reminds us: Pain doesn\u2019t have the last word. 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