Video: Ballet dancer from Gugulethu

"If you are doing ballet, and you're a guy, they will start calling you names. But for me it was not a problem, because I know who I am." South African Ballet Theatre dancer Patrick Mngeni talks about family, learning to dance in a township, and the work that goes into the achieving of dreams.

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Posted on SouthAfrica.info on 6 August 2009.

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'We're always here, we're always working hard, because ... we want to look good.' South African Ballet Theatre dancer Patrick Mngeni (Image: Zoopy TV)

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