For years, Misty Copeland was told that her skin color, her body and her hair didn't conform to what ballerinas were supposed to look like. In her new memoir, she chronicles the barriers she had to overcome to become a star in the ballet world.
It also was the first time I was in a stable environment that wasn't chaotic, that I could hear myself think. It was peaceful. And I could really just focus on the training, which is why I moved in with them, was to be able to catch up on all the training that I missed out on by starting at 13 years old, which is late in ballet standards, because I would eventually go on to join American Ballet Theater with only four years of training under my belt.
When you think about these cultural art forms and dances, people often see Black Americans and they think,"Well, you should be doing your cultural dance," whatever that is ... whereas white Americans aren't told they can't do this European art form. So that's just kind of been this pattern with Black and brown dancers is that they feel that we should be doing African dance or with our bare feet, modern dance — and that shouldn't be the case.
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