{"id":61417,"date":"2021-09-01T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61417"},"modified":"2021-09-01T01:57:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:57:10","slug":"black-in-ballet-coming-together-after-trying-to-blend-into-the-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61417","title":{"rendered":"Black in Ballet: Coming Together After Trying to \u2018Blend Into the Corps\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black in Ballet: Coming Together After Trying to \u2018Blend Into the Corps\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2021-08-17<\/p>\n

Brian Seibert<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe cast of \u201cStare Decisis<\/a>,\u201d from left: Kouadio Davis, India Bradley, Rachel Hutsell, Robert Garland, Misty Copeland, Erica Lall, Kennard Henson and Alexandra Hutchinson. Malin Fezehai for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A rare gathering of Black dancers from different companies meet to discuss a new production on Little Island<\/a>, curated by Misty Copeland and Robert Garland<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last year, in the wake of the killing of George Floyd<\/a> and Breonna Taylor<\/a> and the protests that followed, American ballet companies started talking a lot more about race. About the issues of diversity, equity and inclusion that organizations of all kinds were addressing, but also aesthetic assumptions, implicit biases and longstanding practices<\/a> particular to ballet and its history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were innumerable panel discussions,\u201d said Robert Garland, the resident choreographer of Dance Theater of Harlem<\/a>. \u201cBut I felt that for the younger Black dancers, it was a heavy burden to be responsible for all of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garland wanted to help them, and in the way that he knows best: by making a dance for them. That work, \u201cStare Decisis (To Stand by Things Decided)<\/a>,\u201d has its debut on Wednesday as part of \u201cNYC Free,\u201d a monthlong festival at Little Island<\/a>, the new public park on the Hudson River<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most significant feature of \u201cStare Decisis\u201d is its eight-member cast: an extraordinarily rare gathering of Black dancers from New York City Ballet<\/a>, American Ballet Theater<\/a> and Dance Theater of Harlem<\/a>. Misty Copeland \u2014 Ballet Theater\u2019s first Black female principal dancer and one of the most famous ballerinas in the United States<\/a> \u2014 is among them. (Little Island asked her to present a program.)…<\/p>\n

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