{"id":6648,"date":"2015-07-01T07:42:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2015-07-01T08:56:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T08:56:18","slug":"misty-copeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/misty-copeland","title":{"rendered":"Misty Copeland Becomes The First Black Ballerina To Reach The Highest Rank Of The American Ballet Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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She is one of the most famous ballet dancers today: she has written two books &#8211; one memoir and a children\u2019s book, she presented at the Tony\u2019s Awards, she was featured prominently in an Under Armour advertisement, and finally, she was honored on TIME magazine&#8217;s 100 most influential people of 2015. After dancing with the American Ballet Theater for 14 years, being featured as a soloist for 8 of those years, Misty has become the first black principal ballerina in the company&#8217;s 75-year history.<\/p>\n<h2>A long journey<\/h2>\n<p>Copeland\u2019s rise to the top was unlikely. She began studying ballet at age 13, which is relatively late. She also struggled with often being the only woman of color in her company. <i>\u201cSomething that my mother instilled in me, as a biracial woman herself, and me being biracial, was that the world was going to view me as a black woman, no matter what I decided to do,\u201d <\/i>Copeland has said. <i>\u201cI had no idea that that was going to be my truth at some point in my life, when I moved to New York City at 17 years old and joined American Ballet Theater and realized I was the only African American woman in a company of 80 dancers.<\/i><i>&#8220;<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6653\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/31fb3f5018156dc4f1a7ab11a90f7846.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/31fb3f5018156dc4f1a7ab11a90f7846.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/31fb3f5018156dc4f1a7ab11a90f7846-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/31fb3f5018156dc4f1a7ab11a90f7846-600x900.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/53198839322604783\/\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>{adinserter CNP5}<\/p>\n<h2>Hoping to inspire more talent<\/h2>\n<p>In her memoir, she notes the pressure she felt to rise to the top. Not just for her, but for all those who look up to her.\u00a0<i>&#8220;My fears are that it could be another two decades before another black woman is in the position that I hold with an elite ballet company. \u00a0That if I don&#8217;t rise to principal, people will feel I have failed them.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>Now that she has accomplished this, she hopes to <i>\u201ctry and open up the doors for the history of African-American ballerinas that I feel is just not told.&#8221; <\/i>She added<i>: &#8220;And I\u2019m here to be a vessel for all these brown ballerinas who have come before me.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6654\" style=\"width: 692px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Misty-Copeland-Photographer-Gene-Schiavone-3-700x575.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"692\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Misty-Copeland-Photographer-Gene-Schiavone-3-700x575.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Misty-Copeland-Photographer-Gene-Schiavone-3-700x575-595x300.jpg 595w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/07\/Misty-Copeland-Photographer-Gene-Schiavone-3-700x575-600x303.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/236x\/f1\/49\/9e\/f1499e54da6a093a9ced7cd743095429.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/accepted-to-26-schools\">SEE ALSO: A High School Student Has Been Accepted To 26 Universities. 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