{"id":50900,"date":"2016-12-26T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50900"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:32:20","slug":"the-photograph-that-helped-misty-copeland-realize-her-responsibility-as-a-black-woman-in-ballet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50900","title":{"rendered":"The Photograph That Helped Misty Copeland Realize Her Responsibility as a Black Woman in Ballet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/10\/misty-copeland-raven-wilkinson-photo\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Photograph That Helped Misty Copeland Realize Her Responsibility as a Black Woman in Ballet<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair<\/a><br \/>\n2016-10-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mistycopeland.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Misty Copeland<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/10\/misty-copeland-raven-wilkinson-photo\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/57f404e20c3020dd42f7848a\/master\/w_600,c_limit\/23-stories-misty-copeland.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ahead of her new book, the first African-American female principal dancer of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Ballet_Theatre\" target=\"_blank\">American Ballet Theatre<\/a> reveals the power of seeing a portrait of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raven_Wilkinson\" target=\"_blank\">Raven Wilkinson<\/a>, who broke color barriers in ballet more than 50 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw this image of dancer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raven_Wilkinson\" target=\"_blank\">Raven Wilkinson<\/a> for the first time in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ballets_Russes_(film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ballets Russes<\/em><\/a>, the 2005 documentary. I cried upon hearing a history I didn\u2019t know much about. As a black woman in the classical-ballet world, I realized then that, although things have evolved in the 50 years since Raven faced severe racism while performing with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ballet_Russe_de_Monte_Carlo\" target=\"_blank\">Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo<\/a>, black women still face an uphill battle finding their place as professionals in classical ballet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2016\/10\/misty-copeland-raven-wilkinson-photo\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Photograph That Helped Misty Copeland Realize Her Responsibility as a Black Woman in Ballet Vanity Fair 2016-10-11 Misty Copeland Ahead of her new book, the first African-American female principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre reveals the power of seeing a portrait of Raven Wilkinson, who broke color barriers in ballet more than 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,25],"tags":[19921,22937,6725,19922,147,25859,306],"class_list":["post-50900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-ballet","tag-ballet-russe-de-monte-carlo","tag-dance","tag-misty-copeland","tag-photography","tag-raven-wilkinson","tag-vanity-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50900","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=50900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50902,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50900\/revisions\/50902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}