Ballet teacher breaking class barriers with dance in Peru

A ballet teacher breaks the classroom barriers with dance in Peru in order to teach the children from the impoverished communities in Lima. Silva is very much convinced that through ballet the children will be able to learn some life lessons and will be able to prepare them for their future.

Lima: A four walled classroom proves to be a perfect place for practising dace but in Peru a ballet teacher named Maria del Carmen Silva is now breaking the class barriers to teach dancing to the children from the impoverished communities in Lima.

The 52 year old teacher Maria del Carmen Silva says that her only objective in life is to prepare the girls for their future outside the boundaries of their poor neighbourhood. "I decided that I was going to change lives through dance because that is what I know how to do," she said.

Parents say that they are experiencing ballet for the first time through their children and watch their daughters practicing it. Silva is very much convinced that through ballet the children will be able to learn some life lessons and for that she is not charging these families.

She says none in the audience would be able to differentiate between the wealthy and the impoverished. She says, "All the girls, no matter where you are from, are all the same. And that mattered to me."

Silva not only teaches dance but also takes the girls out to collect rubbish for recycling so they could receive some financial reward. Silva's initiative has sparked new dreams in the minds of girls for whom dance, let alone international travel, long seemed like a distant possibility.