{"id":50904,"date":"2016-12-26T17:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50904"},"modified":"2016-12-26T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T18:38:07","slug":"misty-copeland-en-pointe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50904","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland En Pointe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Misty Copeland En Pointe<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Undefeated<\/a>
\n2016-12-14<\/p>\n

Kelley L. Carter<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Culture Writer<\/p>\n

Photographs by Brent Lewis<\/strong><\/a>
\nVideos by Lois Nam<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Digital Producer<\/p>\n

America\u2019s most famous prima ballerina<\/a> heads to Cuba<\/a> to represent female athleticism. (Yes, athleticism.)<\/em><\/p>\n

HAVANA, Cuba<\/a><\/p>\n

Misty Copeland<\/a> is at the barre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s demonstrating a battement tendu<\/em><\/a> to a group of ballerinas at a dance magnet school.<\/p>\n

The dancers \u2014 all girls ages 15 to 17, all in black leotards, white tights and pointe shoes<\/a>, and all with their hair pulled up into impeccable topknots \u2014 listen intently.<\/p>\n

All eyes are focused on her. Copeland is speaking in English. The teen dancers only understand Spanish.<\/p>\n

There is a language translator \u2014 Maria Luz Pereya, a former dancer herself, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/a> \u2014 and she offers at one point to bring a corded microphone toward Copeland and translate. Copeland quickly shakes her head, declining her assistance in this moment. This is, after all, Havana, the capital of Cuba<\/a>, an island in the northern Caribbean<\/a> where, as they say, the three languages spoken and understood by all are: Spanish, baseball and dance.<\/p>\n

And Copeland, a groundbreaking ballerina \u2014 as well as author, and newlywed \u2014 who made history last year when she became the first African-American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theatre\u2019s<\/a> 75-year history, happens to be fluent in the art of motion. \u201cSport and art and dance unify people,\u201d Copeland said later, sitting on the rooftop of Havana\u2019s The Saratoga<\/a> \u2014 the same place Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> and Jay Z<\/a> spent their 2013 wedding anniversary. \u201cIt\u2019s a language and a culture that people from everywhere, all over the world, can relate to, and understand, and come together for.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Misty Danielle Copeland got her start in ballet on the basketball court…<\/p>\n

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

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