I love her…I studied ballet from a two year old child until I was 30 years old. I am a white American grandmother now and I am taking my white 9 year old granddaughter to see Misty perform at the Met at Lincoln Center in June. I bought her book for myself and I bought her Firebird book for my granddaughter. I also bought a little book explaining the ballet " Swan Lake" for my granddaughter. I truly do not see color, I see people and I want my granddaughter to grow up and appreciate everyone's differences. We are all truly just simple human beings.
Thank you Misty for all that you are doing for ballet. My daughter and I love ballet. I was intimidated by the requirement that you must be a certain color, body shape and so forth. I never went any further than lessons and instead gravitated to African dance. African dance is fine, but a particular form of dance should not be "white" or "black" because of its origins. Not to mention that there are many, Many, Caucasian dancers who have wholeheartedly embraced so called "black" dancing; urban, street, breakdancing and so on. They aren't ostracized. This is 2015, and we have had top ranked African American tennis athletes, gymnasts, pro golfers and yes, even a president. It is time for ballet to realize that things change. It will still be beautiful if the dancers are taught the correct way and if people get off the color band wagon. If my daughter wants to dance professionally as a ballerina, that option should be based on her training, potential and skills, not her color. Keep dancing Misty! You inspire us!
So tell me, if it isn't a race issue in Ballet, then why is she like one of a handful of African Americans that has ever set foot in ABT? You can probably count us on one hand. But there's no race issue. Tiger Woods, in his heyday, handful if any in golf. First African American president…ever! in over 200 years of this country!!! We have no Asian president, no hispanic president to date. 200 years! But there's no race issues. I am all for all races living in one harmony, but i'm not going to stand idly by and let you tell me there isn't a race issue. All you do is just sweep everything under the rug, find another ridiculous reason why there is only one black person in a white dominated art, tell us that racism is over. I am sick and tired of you telling us that there is no issue and that we are pulling the race card. I'm tired of being told that the issue doesn't exist and that it's all in our head. It's still here. We all should be ashamed of how this country has treated other races. Instead of dealing with the shame you just want to tell us that it doesn't exist. If a race war begins it won't because it's white against minority but it will be because you want to sweep everything under the rug and then stand there in our faces and say it doesn't exist. She's a very good dancer but she is also black and she is rocking the shit out of a white dominated art and y'all mad.
Oh dear. Some of the comments miss the point. She is a wonderful dancer. So sad that race seemingly interferes with accomplishment in such a difficult profession. Yet she has made it, and ballet is better for it. Maria Tallchief?
I love her…I studied ballet from a two year old child until I was 30 years old. I am a white American grandmother now and I am taking my white 9 year old granddaughter to see Misty perform at the Met at Lincoln Center in June. I bought her book for myself and I bought her Firebird book for my granddaughter. I also bought a little book explaining the ballet " Swan Lake" for my granddaughter. I truly do not see color, I see people and I want my granddaughter to grow up and appreciate everyone's differences. We are all truly just simple human beings.
Thank you Misty for all that you are doing for ballet. My daughter and I love ballet. I was intimidated by the requirement that you must be a certain color, body shape and so forth. I never went any further than lessons and instead gravitated to African dance. African dance is fine, but a particular form of dance should not be "white" or "black" because of its origins. Not to mention that there are many, Many, Caucasian dancers who have wholeheartedly embraced so called "black" dancing; urban, street, breakdancing and so on. They aren't ostracized. This is 2015, and we have had top ranked African American tennis athletes, gymnasts, pro golfers and yes, even a president. It is time for ballet to realize that things change. It will still be beautiful if the dancers are taught the correct way and if people get off the color band wagon. If my daughter wants to dance professionally as a ballerina, that option should be based on her training, potential and skills, not her color.
Keep dancing Misty! You inspire us!
HER FEEEEEEET JESUS
So tell me, if it isn't a race issue in Ballet, then why is she like one of a handful of African Americans that has ever set foot in ABT? You can probably count us on one hand. But there's no race issue. Tiger Woods, in his heyday, handful if any in golf. First African American president…ever! in over 200 years of this country!!! We have no Asian president, no hispanic president to date. 200 years! But there's no race issues. I am all for all races living in one harmony, but i'm not going to stand idly by and let you tell me there isn't a race issue. All you do is just sweep everything under the rug, find another ridiculous reason why there is only one black person in a white dominated art, tell us that racism is over. I am sick and tired of you telling us that there is no issue and that we are pulling the race card. I'm tired of being told that the issue doesn't exist and that it's all in our head. It's still here. We all should be ashamed of how this country has treated other races. Instead of dealing with the shame you just want to tell us that it doesn't exist. If a race war begins it won't because it's white against minority but it will be because you want to sweep everything under the rug and then stand there in our faces and say it doesn't exist. She's a very good dancer but she is also black and she is rocking the shit out of a white dominated art and y'all mad.
Oh dear. Some of the comments miss the point. She is a wonderful dancer. So sad that race seemingly interferes with accomplishment in such a difficult profession. Yet she has made it, and ballet is better for it. Maria Tallchief?
she is really elegant and soft spoken i like her a lot. kudos and i wish her the best of luck!
She's so beautiful. And I'm not talking about her looks. #amazing
Dyum she got moves
checkout #ballet #dance
Her feet are so flexible. What a beautiful dancer.
Misty Copeland is one of the most beautiful dancers that I know of
This woman is so beautiful!!! #inspiration
She is magnificent on and off the stage.
I truly admire her grace and perseverance
Such an inspiration! So touching
#balletforall #ballet #bam #repost
shes 32 ????????? whaaattttt
She is perfect!
I enjoyed her judging on So You Think You Can Dance last season. I hope she'll be back a lot!
You may not be the traditional. But you are BEAUTIFUL!