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A San Francisco Ballet Principal Makes Connections By Cutting The Hair Of Unhoused People In His City

DANCE Posted: July 28, 2019 9:00 am

Benjamin Freemantle started cutting his own, and his friends’, hair out of necessity when they were all lowly, and low-paid, dance students. Then he grew into both dance and haircutting, and eventually, after extending that skill to a guy who slept in his alley, “‘I had the idea—it was a little scary—to go into the Tenderloin, which is our homeless district,”‘he says. He brought a stool, his haircutting set—basic shears from Amazon, combs, a brush and a spray bottle—and a sign that read ‘Need a Haircut?'” – Dance Magazine

DANCE Published: 07.26.19, sj

Read the story in Dance Magazine Published: 07.26.19, sj

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