WHY NOW? BECAUSE MISTY COPELAND IS AN INSPIRATION FOR A LOT OF YOUNG GIRLS WHO DREAM OF BEING BALLERINAS AND WHO ARE TOLD, DIRECTLY OR NOT, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE GOOD LOOK, SIZE, COLOR.....SHE'S THE VISION. Nothing is more frustrating than having to deal with something you have no power on.
Misty copeland, by dancing and succeding, has made more for youthness of all ethinicity, than a million of words.
LEGEND 1
“ When you’re not supposed to be there because of your colour, your origins, your physique.....you don’t just dance everyday.....you change the world everyday!”
LEGEND 2
" Next time you enter a dance class and don't feel like you belong cause they're prettier, more graceful..... remember! .. There's one thing that none of these girls can do better than you......and it's being YOU!"
JUNE 30, 2015
After Anne Benna Sims and Nora Kimball, the first african American women to be promoted to soloist for AMERICAN BALLET THEATER, MISTY COPELAND Copeland became the first to be promoted to principal ballerina in ABT................. READ THE FULL ARTICLE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY RIGHT HERE.
