Blood, sweat and ballet: SA ballerina makes history in Russia
Desilets recently became the first South African to graduate from Russia’s prestigious Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St Petersburg.
Years of hard work at a Russian ballet school have turned South African Candice Desilets into a budding ballet star.
She learnt Russian on the go For four years, Russia was home and ballet was all-consuming.
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