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Misty Copeland On How Protests Are Waking Up The Dance World

DANCE Posted: July 23, 2020 3:01 pm

“It’s the first time in my position that I feel like I’m truly being heard,” she explains of how she’s using her voice to raise awareness, later adding, “This has been my life’s work as a dancer: speaking about racism in the world, and in ballet, speaking about the lack of diversity. And to have my company, to have the ballet world listening, and to have different panels to speak about this—in a way that I have before, but again, for the first time, people are really seeing it. And I think that’s what’s different about this time, is that I feel like we have true allies and people from other communities and races that we’ve not had before.” – The Root

DANCE Published: 07.23.20

Read the story in The Root Published: 07.23.20

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