Dancing towards the light
2020 began with great promise and expectation for dance teacher Michelle Pieterse.
Her dance classes were jam-packed with eager students who were painstakingly training and preparing for months, for a much-anticipated World Dance Challenge Finals in Portugal.
Pieterse, the owner of the Michelle Leibrandt School of Dance studio, in Wonderboom, Pretoria, was incredibly excited for the European journey too, having worked endlessly with her students to get them prepared for one of the most exciting dance competitions in the world.
Within days of jumping on a plane to Portugal, however, Pieterse and her students' dreams came crashing down as the Covid-19 pandemic put a halt to everything.
Now, not only did Pieterse have to deliver the bad news to her students that their much-anticipated trip to Portugal was cancelled, but there was also a big possibility that they could lose all their money invested in the trip.
