Sander is a professional ballet dancer - Londoner #268

Sander is a professional ballet dancer. Originally from Belgium, he started dancing in Bruges at the age of 4. At 15, he got into the Royal Ballet School in London. We meet Sander as a dancer at the Royal Ballet. At the time the film is being released, Sander has pursued his other passion: teaching dance. He now runs his own ballet studio in Battersea.

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This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a ten-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.

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TRANSCRIPT

I'm originally from Bruges in Belgium, I came to London in 2007 at the age of 15 and I've been working with the Royal Ballet for 5 years now. I first got into dancing at the age of 4, I'm also a twin and we both used to figure skate and do ballet.

(filmmaker Laura) And then, when you were growing up, did you get any stigma when you were doing ballet? I think a lot of male dancers have that when they are younger, a lot of people think that it's just standing on your toes and twirling around. I always say to those people: come watch me now and you can see the big leaps we do, all the big lifts that we have to do, it's very different from what they think it is. So I think, as children, I might have been bullied a little bit but not anymore.

I like teaching, I've just got my teacher's diploma to teach dance. This is my chance to maybe develop into being a choreographer for after my career. But I don't know what I'm gonna do yet, it's just, it's nice to put your creativity into a piece and show people your inspirations.

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