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Article: inside out: Rhythm of the streets aids cancer research; Cancer Research UK is staging a Spring in the City fashion show on Thursday. LIPA student Belinda Mollokwu tells Penny Fray about the tragic loss that led her to choreograph the event.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 3, 2004
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Byline: Penny Fray
WHEN Belinda Mollokwu saw an advert looking for a street dancer to choreograph a Cancer Research fashion show in the hip Liverpool club -Society, she didn't hesitate to apply.
Not only was she a street dancer with a passion for fashion but her own father -John -had recently died of cancer.
``When I saw the poster, I had to help,'' says the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts student.
``I had lost my father on February 16, 2001,barely a month after being told he was terminally ill. My two sisters and brother were shocked too becausealldadhad told us was that he was ill and the doctors didn't know what was wrong ...