![]() “Early on, Cindy had read me the famed choreographer George Balanchine’s description of the ideal ballerina. I’d been called a ballet prodigy, a word whose depth of meaning I didn’t initially understand,” she added. By the time I auditioned for that prestigious company, I was 15. ![]() However, encouragement from her dance instructor, Cindy, motivated Copeland to keep trying. ![]() Not at an elite dance school either, but at a Boys & Girls Club, something unheard of in professional ballet.” “Some dancers begin their training as young as age three. “I’d gotten a late start in ballet,” Copeland, 39, wrote in an article published by Guideposts. Despite the arduous journey to the top, Copeland said, “God made me to dance.”Ĭopeland remembered a letter that denied her application to a ballet academy and said that she came to the game late despite her love for dance. ![]() In 2015, Ballet dancer Misty Copeland became the first female African-American principal dancer to perform in American Ballet Theatre. Published: FebruPhoto from Misty Copeland’s Instagramīallet Dancer Misty Copeland: ‘God Made Me To Dance’ ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |