Ballet students perform at the San Genaro neighborhood in the Chorrillos district, south of Lima, on April 1, 2023. At an arid and dry hill in Lima, a group of girls wearing leotards stand on their toes in a rocky and dusty road. Hardly any of them will become a professional dancer, acknowledges without bitterness Maria del Carmen Silva, instructor of the ballet that finances itself from recycling in Peru. (Photo by Ernesto Benavides/AFP Photo)
