It's hard to imagine a more unlikely place for a ballet dancer to thrive than a Palestinian refugee camp.
Through the Syrian civil war, threatened by terrorists and against the wishes of a father who said he'd break his legs to stop him from dancing.
But against those heavily-stacked odds Ahmad Joudeh has indeed, managed to thrive. In 2014 he made it to the semi-finals of the Arab version of So You Think You Can Dance, which led to a documentary about his life, and in time an invitation to the Netherlands, where he would dance in the Dutch National Ballet.
He's now an independent artist, a UNHCR ambassador and has written a memoir of his life called Dance or Die.
His life, career and journey to the Netherlands - where he is now a citizen - is the subject of a new film screening as part of the DocEdge Festival, called The Dancer.
