{"id":43385,"date":"2015-10-21T21:41:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T21:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43385"},"modified":"2016-07-26T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:12:25","slug":"new-film-shows-misty-copelands-journey-as-a-black-ballerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43385","title":{"rendered":"New Film Shows Misty Copeland’s Journey as a Black Ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Film Shows Misty Copeland’s Journey as a Black Ballerina<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

NBC News<\/a>
\n2015-09-30<\/p>\n

Maya Chung<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2015 Urbanworld Festival<\/a> closed out on Saturday night with the highly anticipated documentary “A Ballerina’s Tale<\/a>,” which details Misty Copeland’s<\/a> journey to become a principal ballerina.<\/p>\n

The film festival, founded in 1997, is a five-day event that showcases narrative features, documentaries, short films, and spotlight screenings with the goal of redefining and advancing the impact of the multicultural community in the film world.<\/p>\n

“A Ballerina’s Tale” is one film that is making that impact. The documentary gives an in-depth picture of Copeland’s struggles with being black in a predominantly white Ballet world and it chronicles her experience recovering from a leg fracture – one that could’ve stopped her dream of becoming a principal dancer…<\/p>\n

…Copeland, 33, beat the odds and became the American Ballet Theatre’s<\/a> first black female principal dancer in the company’s 75-year history this past June. But, it wasn’t easy and the film makes that clear. She explained that she struggled being a black dancer when she first began in the professional ballet world.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never strayed away from being black. I’m biracial but something that my mom constantly said to me growing up in southern California <\/a>was ‘Yes, you are Italian, you are German, and you are black, but you are going to be viewed by the world as a black woman’,” Copeland said. “I never felt different growing up but when I came into the ballet world as a professional I immediately felt different.”…<\/p>\n

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

New Film Shows Misty Copeland’s Journey as a Black Ballerina NBC News 2015-09-30 Maya Chung The 2015 Urbanworld Festival closed out on Saturday night with the highly anticipated documentary “A Ballerina’s Tale,” which details Misty Copeland’s journey to become a principal ballerina. The film festival, founded in 1997, is a five-day event that showcases narrative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8,20,842],"tags":[19921,6725,21514,19922,15127,13665],"class_list":["post-43385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-maya-chung","tag-misty-copeland","tag-nbc-news","tag-nelson-george"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43385","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=43385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43386,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43385\/revisions\/43386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}