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Misty Copeland Explains The Code Used To Discourage Black Ballet Dancers

DANCE Posted: October 11, 2020 9:00 am

It’s all about language choices, the ballerina says. For years she was told she had a great body for ballet, and then she joined American Ballet Theatre. Then she was being told to get rid of her muscles, her breasts, and her butt, told that suddenly she didn’t have a ballet body. “That’s language that’s used, because you’re in a visual art form, it’s about your aesthetic … so that’s what they say to Black and brown dancers to disguise saying ‘You don’t have the right skin color for ballet.'” – PopSugar

DANCE Published: 10.08.20

Read the story in PopSugar Published: 10.08.20

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