Angeles D1 / PERU { 30 images } Created 17 Aug 2012
In the richest side of Corillos district, extreme South "Circuito de Playas" of Lima, Perù, there is a very particular dance school called Angeles D1. The name comes from a local idiomatic expression which could maybe be translated with "all for one and one for all". Its peculiarity is not only the number of various kinds of dance it is possible to practice there, from the traditional peruvian zapateo to hip-hop, it consists mainly in working with students from the poorest and most peripheral areas of the big peruvian capital.
The story began years ago when the professional dancer Vania Masias noticed an artistic potential in the kids flipping over the zebra crossings in order to scrape together a few money. Thanks to her school, some of them became professional Hip-Hop dancers and even teach to younger kids in and outside the school. They organize demonstrations in the poor districts' schools and attend national shows.
Bringing their example of social ransom through the dance, these ex traffic lights' angels (they actually fly like angels with their acrobatics) are a message, an expectation for the outskirt's boys and girls. They substantially say that it is possible to do something good for themslves and for the others instead of been swallowed in the degradation of the slums, often sinonimous of drug and gang.
The story began years ago when the professional dancer Vania Masias noticed an artistic potential in the kids flipping over the zebra crossings in order to scrape together a few money. Thanks to her school, some of them became professional Hip-Hop dancers and even teach to younger kids in and outside the school. They organize demonstrations in the poor districts' schools and attend national shows.
Bringing their example of social ransom through the dance, these ex traffic lights' angels (they actually fly like angels with their acrobatics) are a message, an expectation for the outskirt's boys and girls. They substantially say that it is possible to do something good for themslves and for the others instead of been swallowed in the degradation of the slums, often sinonimous of drug and gang.
