Brazil, EDISCA : School of dance and social integration for children and teenagers. Its aim is to get children off the streets of the Fortaleza shantytown with dance and education.
For Danse pour la Vie, dancer clothes do not only have to be perfect aesthetically, above all it is a real learning tool of quality and self-confidence.To do the right movement when you have the right ballet slippers become easier and the dream is suddenly more attainable.
On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the brand in 2007, Jean - Marc Gaucher, president of Repetto, created the Fondation Danse pour la Vie, in order to give more meaning and scope to this anniversary by making it more "human ".
The objective is to support dance schools around the world by promoting the reintegration of children in distress through artistic expression.
The Dance for Life Foundation wishes to associate itself with projects on a human scale which use dance as a tool for education, reintegration and personal development and whose results are concretely visible on the ground.
It offers a unique alliance between art and humanitarianism. Due to lack of financial means, some children do not dare to enter a dance school because the equipment and outfits are too expensive.
Others practice their art with slippers so worn that their dream of future stars fades when the pointe shoes give up the ghost and the tights tear.
This is the reason why the Foundation provides equipment (ballet slippers, pointe shoes, ballerinas, tights, etc) to children in dance schools selected from all over the world (Cuba, Haïti, South Africa, Brazil, Ukraine, amongst others).
