Only When I Dance is the story of two teenagers trying to realise an extraordinary dream. One girl and one boy, both black and poor, are planning to dance their way out of one of the most violent favelas in Rio de Janerio.

Granted scholarships to train at the Centro de Dance Rio, one of the most rigorous andprestigious ballet schools in Brazil, Isabela and Irlan’s natural talent for ballet is about to transform theirlives. Having passed the Brazilian selection panel in more...