Flight of the Swan

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'.

Cast

Hilja Lindsay Parkinson

as Obe Kanayo

Wumni Olaiya

as African Spirit

Charlotte Moore

as Mrs. Mortimer

Laura Penta

as Sarah

Rowena Meddeman

as Bully

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