{"id":44310,"date":"2015-11-28T15:27:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T15:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44310"},"modified":"2015-11-28T15:27:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T15:27:36","slug":"misty-copeland-is-helping-to-bring-dance-lessons-to-rwandan-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44310","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland Is Helping To Bring Dance Lessons To Rwandan Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/misty-copeland-mindleaps-rwanda_5654f577e4b08e945fea57fc\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland Is Helping To Bring Dance Lessons To Rwandan Kids<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-11-25<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rgebreyes\" target=\"_blank\">Rahel Gebreyes<\/a><\/strong>, Editor, HuffPost Live<\/p>\n<p><em>The dancer just returned from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kigali\" target=\"_blank\">Kigali, Rwanda<\/a>, where shared her love of dance with children in the city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ballerina <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland<\/a> has made a name for herself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/misty-copeland-becomes-first-african-american-female-abt-principal-dancer-n384521\" target=\"_blank\">breaking barriers for black dancers<\/a> in the United States, and she&#8217;s taking her passion abroad to do the same in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rwanda\" target=\"_blank\">Rwanda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This month, Copeland teamed up with <a href=\"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">MindLeaps<\/a>, a nonprofit organization that brings <a href=\"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/our-solution\/\" target=\"_blank\">dance instruction, vocational training and academics<\/a> to the children of developing countries. Copeland traveled to Rwanda to launch the <a href=\"https:\/\/mindleaps.org\/iaf\/\" target=\"_blank\">MindLeaps Girls Program<\/a> and documented her journey via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jqi41CFa9S4&amp;sns=tw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/-KPqidMmPg\/?taken-by=mistyonpointe\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s.embed.live.huffingtonpost.com\/HPLEmbedPlayer\/?segmentId=565393196f753a8eb6000536&amp;autoPlay=false\" width=\"570\" height=\"321\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Misty Copeland Is Helping To Bring Dance Lessons To Rwandan Kids The Huffington Post 2015-11-25 Rahel Gebreyes, Editor, HuffPost Live The dancer just returned from Kigali, Rwanda, where shared her love of dance with children in the city. Ballerina Misty Copeland has made a name for herself breaking barriers for black dancers in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,24,8,20,842],"tags":[19921,6725,10108,22086,19922,22085,9311,2425],"class_list":["post-44310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-huffington-post","tag-mindleaps","tag-misty-copeland","tag-rahel-gebreyes","tag-rwanda","tag-the-huffington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44310","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=44310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44311,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44310\/revisions\/44311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}