Taking Flight:

Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina - Michaela DePrince lived the first few years of her life in an orphanage in war-torn Sierra Leone until she was adopted by an American family at the age of four. She studied ballet at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and, at 17, has become the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem.