A dancer who came to the city as a six-year-old refugee from Angola is to star in a homecoming performance at Newcastle's Theatre Royal later this month.
Benedicta Valentina Mamuini, 26, will take on the lead role in the family dance theatre production The Lost Happy Endings in her home city, before ending the UK tour at London's prestigious Sadler’s Wells Theatre in April.
But for the former Byker Primary pupil - who is known as Benny - a career in dance wasn't always on the cards.
