Flight of the Swan

Flight of the Swan


A young black ballerina rejects prejudice and finds her African spirit in Swan Lake.

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, she dreams of performing as lead ballerina Princess Odette, but the girls in her close-minded ballet school mock her ideas of a 'black swan'.

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village for the cold, harsh landscape of England. Thrown into an alien world, she discovers ballet and falls in love with its grace - but the ballet community rejects the idea of a 'black swan.'


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