{"id":59311,"date":"2019-12-01T01:45:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59311"},"modified":"2019-12-01T01:47:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T01:47:18","slug":"after-misty-comes-marie-breaking-barriers-in-the-nutcracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59311","title":{"rendered":"After Misty Comes Marie: Breaking Barriers in \u2018The Nutcracker\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Misty Comes Marie: Breaking Barriers in \u2018The Nutcracker\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2019-11-28<\/p>\n

Gia Kourlas<\/strong><\/a>, Dance Critic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Charlotte<\/a>
\nCharlotte Nebres is the first black Marie, the young heroine of \u201cGeorge Balanchine\u2019s The Nutcracker<\/a>,\u201d at New York City Ballet<\/a>.
\nHeather Sten for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

This year, for the first time, New York City Ballet\u2019s \u201cNutcracke<\/a>r\u201d has a black Marie, the young heroine whose life is charged with magic.<\/em><\/p>\n

She may not remember it, but during the first summer of her life Charlotte Nebres canvassed for Barack Obama<\/a> with her mother, Danielle, who carried her in a sling. She attended political rallies. And on a frigid day in January 2009, she accompanied her parents and older sister to his inauguration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When Charlotte was 6, Misty Copeland<\/a> became the first female African-American principal<\/a> at American Ballet Theater<\/a>. That, she remembers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw her perform and she was just so inspiring and so beautiful,\u201d Charlotte, 11, said. \u201cWhen I saw someone who looked like me onstage, I thought, that\u2019s amazing. She was representing me and all the people like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Charlotte, a student at the School of American Ballet<\/a>, is breaking a barrier herself: She is the first black Marie, the young heroine of \u201cGeorge Balanchine\u2019s The Nutcracker,\u201d at New York City Ballet. It\u2019s a milestone for the production, which dates to 1954.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t lost on Charlotte that she \u201cgot to grow up in a time when it wasn\u2019t just like, oh yeah I can do this, but not do this,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was nothing holding you back.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the cultural shift reaches beyond Charlotte, whose mother\u2019s family is from Trinidad<\/a> (her father\u2019s side is from the Philippines<\/a>), as her school works to diversify its student body. In addition to Charlotte, the other young leads this season are Tanner Quirk (her Prince), who is half-Chinese; Sophia Thomopoulos (Marie), who is half-Korean, half-Greek; and Kai Misra-Stone (Sophia\u2019s Prince), who is half-South Asian. (The children are always double cast.)…<\/p>\n

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

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