Trivia

With her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, she authored the book Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina (2014).

Her adoptive mother, Elaine DePrince, died a day after Michaela DePrince in Vermont during a routine pre-surgical procedure. She did not know of her daughter's death.

Throughout her career, Michaela DePrince danced with prestigious institutions, including as a student at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre.

DePrince danced the leading role in Coppelia, a 2021 ballet film without dialogue that combines live dance with animation. It is a modernized version of a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann.

In 1999, at the age of four, she and another girl, also named Mabinty, later given the name Mia, were adopted by Elaine DePrince and Charles DePrincee, a couple from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, and taken to the United States.

Her professional debut performance was in the role of Gulnare in Mzansi Productions and the South African Ballet Theatre's premiere of Le Corsaire on 19 July 2012.

In 2013, DePrince danced with the Dance Theatre of Harlem as the youngest dancer in the history of the company, and, in the same year, was a soloist with the Dutch National Ballet.

Michaela DePrince was a Sierra Leonean-American ballet dancer who danced with the Boston Ballet.

From 2016 to 2024, she was a goodwill ambassador with the Amsterdam-based organization War Child.

DePrince rose to fame after starring in the documentary First Position in 2011, which followed her and other young ballet dancers as they prepared to compete at the Youth America Grand Prix.

Sister of Mia DePrince.