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Black ballerinas don’t get enough respect. While African-American women may have been praised for their dominant impact in ...
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Meet The First Black Woman Promoted to Principal Dancer with the American Ballet TheatreAt the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos, ballet icon Misty Copeland shared how dance shaped her resilience and leadership. The first Black woman principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre ...
Accepted into the elite Juilliard School in 1961 at age 10, she spent four years there, the lone Black girl surrounded by affluent white girls. At the time, many ballet companies rejected Black ...
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