{"id":12627,"date":"2025-12-22T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/heart-for-art\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:26:28","slug":"heart-for-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/heart-for-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart for art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption>\n   Members of Dance Centre Kenya wait backstage before performing during their 10th-anniversary annual ballet production,<br>\n  <em>The Nutcracker<\/em>, at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi on Dec 6. YASUYOSHI CHIBA\/AFP<br>\n <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bravian Mise, 14, practices a series of long leaps and pirouettes in the narrow living room of his tin-roofed house in a slum in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital.<\/p>\n<p>The boy has taken up classical dance in the hope of one day becoming a professional. Bravian is part of a troupe supported by Dance Centre Kenya who has been rehearsing Tchaikovsky&rsquo;s ballet, <em>The Nutcracker<\/em>, for months.<\/p>\n<p>The famous ballet tells the story of young Clara who, on one Christmas Eve, is given a nutcracker doll. At night, the toys come to life and the nutcracker transforms into a prince.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Heart for art<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Dance Centre Kenya wait backstage before performing during their 10th-anniversary annual ballet production, The Nutcracker, at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi on Dec 6. YASUYOSHI CHIBA\/AFP Bravian Mise, 14, practices a series of long leaps and pirouettes in the narrow living room of his tin-roofed house in a slum in Nairobi, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/heart-for-art\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Heart for art&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}