performing in pointe shoes that actually matched her brown skin tone. Williams reflected that early in her career in the 1960s, as the lone black ballerina in her company, brown pointe shoes weren ...

Copeland said she thinks about the generational trauma for Black ballerinas ... out among the other dancers, especially when everyone was pretty much wearing pink-toned tights.

Cortney Taylor Key, a Black ballerina and teacher at the Misty ... and got to see the Dance Theatre of Harlem and I saw [flesh-toned tights] and understood.” The Dance Theatre of Harlem ...