The American ... Ballet Theatre and realized I was the only African-American woman in a company of 80 dancers.” “I never saw a ballerina who looked like me before,” noting that black ...

Black ballerinas don’t get enough respect. While African-American women may have been praised for their dominant impact in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker” has cast a black dancer to play ... Copeland becoming the first African-American female principal at American ...

At 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 ...

It is true that African-American attitudes toward nature were (and remain) conflicted. For most of American history, land was a bludgeon used against the bodies of black people, who were forced to ...

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 ...