{"id":41582,"date":"2015-06-30T17:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41582"},"modified":"2015-06-30T17:16:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:16:45","slug":"misty-copeland-is-promoted-to-principal-dancer-at-american-ballet-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41582","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland Is Promoted to Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

Misty Copeland Is Promoted to Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theater<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2015-06-30<\/p>\n

Michael Cooper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Misty Copeland<\/a>, whose openness about race in ballet helped to make her one of the most famous ballerinas in the United States, was promoted on Tuesday by American Ballet Theater<\/a>, becoming the first African-American female principal dancer<\/a> in the company\u2019s 75-year history.<\/p>\n

Her promotion \u2014 after more than 14 years with the company, nearly eight as a soloist<\/a> \u2014 came as Ms. Copeland\u2019s fame spread far beyond traditional dance circles.<\/p>\n

She made the cover of Time magazine this year<\/a>, was profiled by \u201c60 Minutes\u201d<\/a> and presented a Tony Award<\/a> on this year\u2019s telecast. She has written a memoir and a children\u2019s book, and has more than a half-million followers on Instagram<\/a>. An online ad she made for Under Armour<\/a> has been viewed more than 8 million times, and she is the subject of a documentary screened this year at the Tribeca Film Festival…<\/p>\n

…That race could still be such an issue in 2015 \u2014 and African-American dancers still so rarely seen at elite ballet companies \u2014 has been depressing to many dancegoers, and has led to impassioned discussions in the dance world and beyond about race, stereotypes and image<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than a half-century has passed since the pioneering black dancer Arthur Mitchell<\/a> broke through the color barrier and became a principal dancer at New York City Ballet<\/a> in 1962, and a generation has elapsed since Lauren Anderson<\/a> became the first African-American principal at Houston Ballet<\/a>, in 1990. But City Ballet has had only two black principal dancers in its history, both men: Mr. Mitchell and Albert Evans<\/a>, who died last week. And Ballet Theater officials said that the company\u2019s only African-American principal dancer before now was Desmond Richardson<\/a>, who joined as a principal in 1997…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Misty Copeland Is Promoted to Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theater The New York Times 2015-06-30 Michael Cooper Misty Copeland, whose openness about race in ballet helped to make her one of the most famous ballerinas in the United States, was promoted on Tuesday by American Ballet Theater, becoming the first African-American female principal dancer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[20334,19921,6725,20333,19922,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-41582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-american-ballet-theater","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-michael-cooper","tag-misty-copeland","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}