Photo journal: Iraqi ballet teacher

Aya is an enthusiastic pupil, but has she got the talent to become a ballerina in the future?

"I hope so, but I don't know... Let's just say she's okay," says Ghada cautiously.

"But she suffers like the rest of my pupils - not enough time for practice - and we don't know what kind of society we are heading towards, either.

"Will the ballet survive in the new Iraq?"