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Paris Opera Ballet Finally Starts Reconsidering Blackface And Other Racial Issues

DANCE Posted: October 6, 2020 5:35 am

Following a manifesto signed by nearly one-fourth of its employees, the world’s oldest ballet company, and perhaps its most tradition-bound, has invited a pair of outside experts to write a report and make recommendations about matters onstage (eliminating blackface, dying tights to match dancers’ skin tones, reworking the traditional ballets blancs that use only white tutus) and off. – France 24 (AFP)

DANCE Published: 10.05.20

Read the story in France 24 (AFP) Published: 10.05.20

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