{"id":55119,"date":"2017-11-12T17:53:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55119"},"modified":"2017-11-12T17:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T17:53:41","slug":"from-misty-copeland-adjustments-tips-and-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55119","title":{"rendered":"From Misty Copeland: Adjustments, Tips and Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Misty Copeland: Adjustments, Tips and Inspiration<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2017-11-08<\/p>\n

Siobhan Burke<\/strong><\/a>, Dance Writer
\nBrooklyn, New York<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMisty Copeland<\/a> (center) coaching students at Harlem Stage<\/a> on Monday (facing the camera, Emily Lugohart and Gabriela Urena). Credit Marc Millman<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Dougie Baldeo, a 13-year-old ballet student at Harlem School of the Arts<\/a>, stood onstage Monday night as Misty Copeland<\/a> offered him pointers on his port de bras<\/a>, or carriage of the arms.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you start moving, I don\u2019t want to see the claw creep back in,\u201d she said, referring to his sometimes tense right hand.<\/p>\n

Dougie was one of 13 students selected to study \u2014 if only for an hour \u2014 with Ms. Copeland, one of the most famous ballerinas in the world, who in 2015 became the first female African-American principal dancer with American Ballet Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And if the students, from Harlem School of the Arts and the Dance Theater of Harlem School<\/a>, were already feeling nervous because of all that star power, there was added pressure: an audience. The event, \u201cA Misty Copeland Ballet Class,\u201d organized by Harlem Stage<\/a> at its Gatehouse space was open to the students\u2019 families and peers, with a few seats available to the public…<\/p>\n

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

What started as a technique class \u2014 focused on turnout of the legs, placement of the arms, straightness of the back \u2014 became a larger kind of learning experience, when Ms. Copeland, 35, was joined for an after-class discussion by a trailblazing African-American dancer of another generation, the 86-year-old Carmen de Lavallade. The two spoke about breaking down barriers for black ballet dancers and honoring those who had done so before them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8],"tags":[19921,6725,27603,27602,19922,2640,27604,2327],"class_list":["post-55119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-media-archive","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-dance-theater-of-harlem-school","tag-harlem-school-of-the-arts","tag-misty-copeland","tag-new-york-times","tag-siobhan-burke","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55119","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=55119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55120,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55119\/revisions\/55120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}