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Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in San Pedro, California, Misty Copeland began her ballet studies at the age of 13 at the San Pedro City Ballet. At the age of 15 she won first place in the Music Center Spotlight Awards. She then began her studies at the Lauridsen Ballet Center. Copeland has studied at the San Francisco Ballet School and American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive on full scholarship and was declared ABT’s National Coca-Cola Scholar in 2000.
Copeland joined ABT Studio Company in September 2000, joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001, and was appointed a Soloist in August 2007. She was promoted to Principal Dancer in August 2015. Her roles with the Company include Terpsichore in Apollo, Gamzatti, a Shade and the Lead D’Jampe in La Bayadère, Milkmaid in The Bright Stream, the Fairy Autumn in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Blossom in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Swanilda and the Mazurka Lady in Coppélia, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Kitri, Mercedes, Driad Queen, the lead gypsy and a flower girl in Don Quixote, Duo Concertant, the Masks in Christopher Wheeldon’s VIII, Lise in Las Fille mal gardée, the Firebird in Alexei Ratmansky’s Firebird, Flower Girl in Gaîté Parisienne, Giselle, Zulma and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Queen of Shemakahn in The Golden Cockerel, Pierrette in Harlequinade, the title role in Jane Eyre, Manon and Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Clara, the Princess, Columbine and one of The Nutcracker’s Sisters in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Bianca in Othello, a Gypsy in Petrouchka, the Lead Polovtsian Girl in the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, the Saracen Dancer in Raymonda, Cowgirl in Rodeo, Juliet and a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, Sinatra Suite, Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette-Odile, the pas de trois, a cygnet, and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, the Waltz in Les Sylphides, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Princess Praline in Whipped Cream, leading roles in Bach Partita, Birthday Offering, Brahms-Haydn Variations, Monotones I, and Thirteen Diversions, and featured roles in Airs, Amazed in Burning Dreams, Baker’s Dozen, Ballo della Regina, Black Tuesday, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Brief Fling, Company B, Désir, Deuce Coupe, Gong, Hereafter, In the Upper Room, Overgrown Path, Pretty Good Year, Private Light, Raymonda Divertissements, Sechs Tänze, Sinfonietta, Symphonic Variations, Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison, and workwithinwork.
Copeland created the Spanish Dance in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, the Fairy Fleur de farine (Wheat flower) in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, His Loss in AfterEffect, and roles in AFTERITE, C. to C. (Close to Chuck), Dumbarton, Garden Blue, Glow – Stop, Her Notes, I Feel The Earth Move, One of Three, and With a Chance of Rain.
Copeland received the 2008 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts and was named National Youth of the Year Ambassador for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in 2013. In 2014, President Obama appointed Copeland to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. She is the recipient of a 2014 Dance Magazine Award and was named to the 2015 TIME 100 by TIME Magazine. Copeland is the author of the best-selling memoir Life in Motion, the children’s book Firebird, and Ballerina Body.
ABT is grateful to Valentino D.
Carlotti for supporting the Dancer Fund in honor of Misty Copeland.
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1999
Participated in ABT Summer Intensive 1999-2000
Misty Copeland in the 1999 ABT Summer Intensive final performance
2000
Joined ABT Studio Company September 2000
2001
Joined Corps de Ballet April 2001
2007
Promoted to Soloist August 2007
2015
Promoted to Principal Dancer August 2015
Misty Copeland in Romeo and Juliet. Photo: Rosalie O'Connor
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Misty Copeland, (born September 10, 1982, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.), American ballet dancer who, in 2015, became the first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Misty Copeland and her siblings grew up with a single mother whose several failed marriages resulted in financial instability. When young, Copeland moved with her family from Kansas City to San Pedro, California. Her first formal encounter with dance was on the drill team of her middle school. The team’s coach noticed her talent and recommended that she attend ballet classes taught by Cynthia Bradley at the local Boys & Girls Club. Copeland’s natural ability was quickly recognized by Bradley, and, though age 13 was a late start for a serious dance career, Copeland began taking classes with Bradley at the San Pedro Ballet School. When her training became more intensive, Copeland moved in with Bradley and her family in order to be closer to the studio. In 1998, at age 15, she won first prize in the ballet category of the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards. That summer she was accepted with a full scholarship into the intensive summer program at the San Francisco Ballet.
That same year a custody battle ensued between the Bradleys and Copeland’s mother, who, at that time, was living with her children in a motel. Copeland moved back in with her family and began attending San Pedro High School. She continued studying ballet at Lauridsen Ballet Centre in Torrance, California. In 2000 Copeland won another full scholarship, this time to the ABT’s intensive summer program. That year she was also named the ABT’s National Coca-Cola Scholar. At the end of the summer, she was invited to join the ABT studio company, a selective program for young dancers still in training. Soon after, in 2001, she became a member of the ABT’s corps de ballet, the only African American woman in a group of 80 dancers. Though she was challenged by her difference, not only in skin colour but also in body type, always more full-figured than her peers (and regularly reminded), she nevertheless climbed the ranks by virtue of her exceptional skill. In 2007 she became the company’s first African American female soloist in two decades (Anne Benna Sims and Nora Kimball had preceded her).
Notable performances included the title role in The Firebird (2012), Gulnare in Le Corsaire (2013), Swanilda in Coppélia (2014), and the dual lead role, Odette/Odile, in Swan Lake (2014).
Copeland’s inspiring story made her a role model and a pop icon. In 2009 Copeland appeared in a music video for the song “Crimson and Clover” by Prince. She also performed live with him on his tour the following year. Copeland became a strong advocate for diversifying the field of ballet and creating access for dancers of varying racial and economic backgrounds. She served on the advisory committee for the ABT’s Project Plié, a program (started in 2013) offering training and mentorship to dance teachers in racially diverse communities around the country as well as in Boys & Girls Clubs. Copeland published the memoir Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (2014) and had endorsements with companies such as Coach (leather accessories) and Under Armour (athletic wear).
In June 2015 the ABT chose Copeland as its first African American female principal dancer in the company’s 75-year history. In August of that year, she had her Broadway debut in the role of Ivy Smith in Leonard Bernstein’s musical On the Town.
In 2018 Copeland made her feature film debut, fittingly playing the ballerina princess in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, an adaptation of Tchaikovsky’s 19th-century ballet.
In addition to her memoir, Copeland also wrote Ballerina Body: Dancing and Eating Your Way to a Leaner, Stronger, and More Graceful You (2017) and Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy (2021) as well as the children’s books Firebird (2014) and Bunheads (2020).
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Misty Copeland is an American classical dancer born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Copeland joined the corps de ballet of the American Ballet Theater in 2001. She was appointed Principal Dancer of ABT in 2007 and Principal Dancer in 2015.
Summary
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 Youth and learning
- 1.2 Ballet dancer career
- 1.3 Other activities
- 1.3.1 Advertising
- 1.3.2 In the media
- 1.3.3 Cinema
- 2 Entourage
- 3 books
- 4 links
- 5 External links
biography
Youth and learning
Misty Copeland grew up in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles. Sylvia Delacerna, her mother, raises her children on her own and provides for their needs through social assistance. In her youth, the gymnast Nadia Comaneci was one of her "idols".
Copeland attends Dana High School, where one of her teachers suggests that she take dance lessons. After school, she participates in the activities of the Boys and Girls Club of San Pedro. Spotted by teacher Cynthia Bradley, she joined the San Pedro Dance School at the age of thirteen. Her mother decides to put an end to the lessons that make her travel long, then agrees that the young girl moves in with Bradley during the week and returns on the weekend. Copeland was noted for the performance of dancer Paloma Herrera of the American Ballet Theater in " Don Quixote" . She drops out of school in her second year of high school ( 10th grade ), is homeschooled and devotes most of her time to dancing. Despite her late debut, she is considered a child prodigy.
In 1998, when she was fifteen, Misty Copeland received the Spotlight Award from the Los Angeles Music Center. Six companies, including Joffrey Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, invited him to take part in their summer workshops.
She prefers to participate in the San Francisco ballets. Copeland then returns to live with his mother, but a custody fight ensues between her and the Bradley family, who advise him to initiate emancipation proceedings with the help of a lawyer. The procedure is rejected by the judge, and Sylvia Delacerna, who wants to regain custody of her daughter, receives a restraining order against Bradley. The girl goes to San Pedro High School and dances in the afternoons with a small company at the Diane Lauridsen Ballet Center in Torrance. At 19In 99, she was housed at the Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph in New York and participated in the summer workshop of the American Ballet Theatre, whose artistic director invited her to join the Studio Company, an ABT institution open to young dancers. She decided to finish high school and joined a studio company the following year.
ballet dancer career
Misty Copeland joined the corps de ballet of the American Ballet Theater in 2001, but a broken vertebrae forced him to stop dancing within a year.
During puberty, her body moved away from the canons of classical dance, which caused criticism. When advised to lose weight when she weighs 45 kilograms, she suffers from an eating disorder. Thereafter, Copeland remained more plump and athletic than most ballet dancers.
In Copeland becomes the first African-American dancer from a New York company to be named a soloist since Anna Benna Sims (in) and Nora Kimball (in) in the 1980s. She dances works by contemporary choreographers including James Koudelka (in)), Jiri Kilian, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp, as well as excerpts from the classical repertoire, including Pas de Deux from Peasants Giselle and Pas de trois from Swan Lake . In 2009, she played Gulnar in Corsair . Misty Copeland landed her first lead role in April 2012 in The Firebird in directed by Alexei Ratmansky. The ballet presented at the Metropolitan Opera was well received by critics, but a fracture of the left tibia requiring surgery was discovered a few days after the performance.
She returns in interpreting the Queen of the Dryads in Don Quixote . In 2014, Copeland starred in the ballet Coppelia , then Nutcracker . In September, during the ABT tour of Australia, she performed Odette/Odile in Le Lac des Cygnes . She also plays the female lead in Romeo and Juliet . At the end of the year, Copeland is awarded 57- and the Dance Magazine Awards organized by Dance Magazine (en) . In 2015, she sang the title role of Swan Lake as principal dancer with the Washington Ballet (in) and reprized the part at the American Ballet Theater at the Metropolitan Opera. In June, following the departures of Julie Kent, Paloma Herrera and Xiomara Reyes (c), ABT names three new "First Dancers" ( soloists ): Misty Copeland, Stella Abrera and Maria Kochetkova (c).
Other activities
Publicity
Copeland has promoted accessories and dance companies such as Lavazza, Payless ShoeSource (in) and Proactiv (in) . Appears in commercials for Dr Pepper and BlackBerry. In 2014, she featured in the I Will What I Want global campaign for clothing brand Under Armor, which received over ten million views on YouTube.
In press
In the 2010s, Copeland became a media figure whose fame transcended the world of classical dance. She dances in the video for Crimson and Clover , performed by Prince in 2009, and later accompanies him on stage on certain days of his Welcome 2 America tour. In 2014, she played a guest judge role on So You Think You Can Dance . The dancer publishes a children's book and her autobiography, Life on the Move" , which is being adapted by the production company New Line Cinema. The following year, she was featured in the news magazine 60 Minutes, and posed for the cover of Time, , the most influential people of the year.
Copeland is one of the presenters at 69 - and nights of the Tony Awards. Documentary The Ballerina's Tale , chronicling her journey, is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Misty Copeland's success is attracting African-American audiences to American Ballet Theatre. Since 2013, she has been the spokesperson for Project Plié, an ABT initiative to increase diversity in the world of classical dance by providing scholarships to students from underrepresented ethnic groups.
Movie
- 2018: The Nutcracker and the Four Kingdoms ( The Nutcracker and the Four Realms ) Lasse Hallström and Jo Johnston : ballerina princess
Entourage
In 2010, publicist Gilda Squire decides to work with Copeland and becomes his agent.
Valentino Carlotti, a partner at Goldman Sachs, met her in 2012 and introduced her to the business world. He participates in the ABT sponsorship program and makes annual donations to the company.
Working
- Life on the move: unexpected soloist [“Life in motion. Incredible ballerina"] ( translation of from English in collaboration with Charisse Jones), Paris, Christian Bourgois, , 344 p. (ISBN 978-2-267-02971-0)
- (en) The Firebird: Ballerina Misty Copeland Shows a Young Girl How to Dance Like a Firebird ( ill. Christopher Myers), GP Putnam's Sons, , 42 pp.
. (ISBN 978-0-399-16615-0 )
Recommendations
- ↑ a b c and d (in) Lillian Cunningham Drew Harwell, " Misty Copeland makes history as American Ballet Theater 's first black lead dancer", The Washington Post ,
External links
- (ru) Official website
Fox News (USA): Misty Copeland accuses the Bolshoi Theater of racism, the theater denies the accusations American woman accuses Bolshoi Theater of racism
Fox News: American woman accuses Bolshoi Theater of racism
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The use of make-up by Russian ballerinas of the Bolshoi Theater to depict characters with dark skin color caused unreasonable indignation of the American ballerina. In her opinion, this is a manifestation of racism, and the Bolshoi Theater should invite black dancers to such parties.
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The famous Russian Bolshoi Theater rejected the criticism of the American ballerina Misty Copeland about the use of "blackface" ) by his dancers.
Copeland, who went down in history as the first black prima of the American Ballet Theatre, posted on Instagram last week a photo of two white ballerinas from the Bolshoi Theater in black make-up. The photo was taken during a rehearsal for La Bayadère, a tragic love story set in India. Copeland considered it racist. “These are the realities of the ballet world,” she wrote.
Further, in the comments under the next entry, she emphasized: “We are actively present in the media and social networks. We talk about ourselves and are open to the world. With this in mind, they simply cannot be so blind and ignorant as not to understand how unacceptable such things are.
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🤷🏽♀️ And this is the reality of the ballet world…. Refer to my last post @rafaelcasal #Repost @masha___mandarinka ・・・ ᒪᗩ ᗷᗩYᗩᗪEᖇE🙈- I love and hate at the same time • • • It was great, guys • • • In the video you can observe the phenomenon of boundless happiness on the occasion of the end of this entire execution.
(commenter — @_k_lopatina_, the body lying next to it — @_anamalia_) (By the way, I can see that my laugh always changes, and from case to case I use different octaves.) • • • Thanks for the best time: @_k_lopatina_ @_anamalia_ @ zzalesik @_adashio_ @tasiwonn @chchchekmarevamasha ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Posted by Misty Copeland (@mistyonpointe) Dec 7, 2019 at 8:44am PST
“I'm tired of giving discounts to oppressors. They need to be identified and brought to clean water. They need to explain everything frankly. I have been living in the ballet world for 25 years. I kept quiet, was comfortable and suffered silently. Now I'm 37 and I feel it's time to stop this," she added.
Copeland also tweeted, “I understand this is a VERY sensitive subject in the ballet world. But until we start speaking frankly, no matter how embarrassing it may be, change will not come. It hurts to think that many prominent theaters don't hire black dancers and use blackface instead.
" For its part, the Bolshoi Theater rejected Copeland's criticism, telling the Russian news agency RIA Novosti that the ballet had been staged thousands of times in Russia and abroad.
“The Bolshoi Theater will not be included in such a discussion,” said theater director Vladimir Urin. “It’s simply ridiculous to find any deep-seated grievances in this: no one has ever made any claims against us and has never considered ... as an act of insult” (so in the text, in reality, Urin owns only the first part of the statement, the second part is taken from the statement of the head of the ballet troupe Bolshoi Theater Vazeev "Izvestia", - ed.).
Russian ballerina Svetlana Zakharova told the Moscow 24 TV channel that there is “nothing so strange in blackface, it’s absolutely normal for us… It’s art.”
Copeland has been open about the low number of black dancers in ballet throughout her career. Meanwhile, at the New York City Ballet in a new production of The Nutcracker, for the first time, the part of Marie will be danced by a black girl, 11-year-old Charlotte Nebres.
