Behind a modest house in Ojo, a working-class district of Lagos, the largest city in Nigeria, around twenty dancers, aged 10 to 21, gracefully perform the dance steps, slides or throws, figures imposed by their discipline.
An uneven and bumpy cement floor replaces the traditional parquet floor.
On the wall, the exercise bars here are made of metal, designed to withstand the overwhelming heat and torrential rain.
Far from the splendor of the ballets of Paris, New York or London, the Leap of Dance Academy has been installed since 2017 in the courtyard of the house of Daniel Owoseni Ajala, a passionate thirty-year-old and volunteer teacher.
In 2023, French photographer Vincent Boisot immersed himself there for ten days to immortalize the daily training of these students, often threadbare toes on their feet.
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