Michaela DePrince

Michaela DePrince was born in Sierra Leone in 1995 and adopted by an American couple at the age of four. She began studying ballet at five and performed on a professional stage for the first time at 13. In 2010, she studied at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School of the American Ballet Theatre. In 2011, she appeared in the documentary “First Position” during the Youth America Grand Prix dance competition. DePrince became internationally known as a ballet dancer.