{"id":44826,"date":"2015-12-27T23:34:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T23:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44826"},"modified":"2015-12-27T23:34:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T23:34:40","slug":"when-a-master-class-with-ballerina-misty-copeland-becomes-a-san-pedro-homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44826","title":{"rendered":"When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2015-12-23<\/p>\n

Deborah Vankin<\/strong><\/a>, Contact Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nAscendant ballerina Misty Copeland<\/a> leads a master class during Monday\u2019s celebration in San Pedro<\/a>. (Christina House<\/a>\/For The Times<\/em>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The crowd of about 200 huddled in the parking lot of San Pedro City Ballet<\/a>, ensconced in fog and drizzle. Restless and excited, they might have been awaiting the arrival of a rock legend. Some rubbed their palms together to keep warm on the chilly Monday afternoon; others stretched their necks, peering down Pacific Avenue in anticipation. Neighbors crouched on the roof of a small bungalow next door to get a glimpse of the action.<\/p>\n

When at last a gray SUV rolled up, smartphones and tablets shot into the air and the chanting began: “Misty, Misty, Misty.”<\/p>\n

San Pedro’s<\/a> ballet prodigy was home.<\/p>\n

A populist ballerina if ever there was one, Misty Copeland<\/a> has become a pioneering hero not just to dance hopefuls but to a generation of young women looking for inspiring, boundary-breaking athletic and artistic role models. Earlier this year, the American Ballet Theatre<\/a> soloist was promoted to principal dancer<\/a>; she is the New York company’s first African American woman to hold that title. And she was the first African American woman to dance the lead in an ABT “Swan Lake” production<\/a>. It’s partly why Copeland landed on the cover<\/a> of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” issue this spring…<\/p>\n

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

When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-23 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Ascendant ballerina Misty Copeland leads a master class during Monday\u2019s celebration in San Pedro. (Christina House\/For The Times) The crowd of about 200 huddled in the parking lot of San Pedro City Ballet, […]<\/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":[19921,455,6725,22437,3909,19922,22436,22435,13272],"class_list":["post-44826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ballet","tag-california","tag-dance","tag-deborah-vankin","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-misty-copeland","tag-san-pedro","tag-san-pedro-city-ballet","tag-the-los-angeles-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44826","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=44826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44827,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44826\/revisions\/44827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}