{"id":48101,"date":"2016-07-04T20:41:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48101"},"modified":"2016-07-04T20:41:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:41:15","slug":"essence-fest-how-prince-helped-misty-copeland-discover-artistic-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48101","title":{"rendered":"Essence Fest: How Prince helped Misty Copeland discover artistic freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/essencefest\/index.ssf\/2016\/07\/essence_fest_how_prince_helped.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Essence Fest: How Prince helped Misty Copeland discover artistic freedom<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New Orleans Times-Picayune<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-02<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cabrasted\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chelsea Brasted<\/strong><\/a>, Lifestyle and Culture Reporter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Misty Copeland<\/a> recounted her own <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_(musician)\" target=\"_blank\">Prince<\/a> tribute Saturday (July 2) during an <a href=\"http:\/\/nola.com\/essencefest\" target=\"_blank\">Essence Fest<\/a> weekend full of them. But for the first African American woman to be named principal dancer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Ballet_Theatre\" target=\"_blank\">American Ballet Theater<\/a>, the music star was a friend before she&#8217;d ever even seen him in concert.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i0ucBBQcAzY?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d never seen him perform live,&#8221; Copeland said during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soledad_O%27Brien\" target=\"_blank\">Soledad O&#8217;Brien<\/a> on the festival&#8217;s Empowerment Experience stage. Copeland was emotional as she continued her story, adding, &#8220;I approached this relationship as this really hilarious quiet guy that became my friend, then I stepped onstage with him for the first time and I was like, OK, I get it now. Like, wow.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/essencefest\/index.ssf\/2016\/07\/essence_fest_how_prince_helped.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essence Fest: How Prince helped Misty Copeland discover artistic freedom The New Orleans Times-Picayune 2016-07-02 Chelsea Brasted, Lifestyle and Culture Reporter Misty Copeland recounted her own Prince tribute Saturday (July 2) during an Essence Fest weekend full of them. But for the first African American woman to be named principal dancer at the American Ballet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,13743,8,20,25],"tags":[19921,24403,24404,19922,1392,6483,6177,23649,5470,24323],"class_list":["post-48101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-ballet","tag-chelsea-brasted","tag-essence-fest","tag-misty-copeland","tag-music","tag-new-orleans-times-picayune","tag-prince","tag-prince-rogers-nelson","tag-soledad-obrien","tag-the-new-orleans-times-picayune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48101","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=48101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48102,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48101\/revisions\/48102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}