TONIGHT, SUPERSTAR BALLERINA MISTY COPELAND AND HER GROUND BREAKING NEW DANCE PROGRAM FOR NEW YORK CITY KIDS. HOW SHE’S HELPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF BLACK AND LATINO DANCERS CHASE THEIR DREAMS ...

especially for Black and Brown children,” Copeland tells the New York Times’ Javier C. Hernández. The program will train students in ballet, music and health. BE BOLD’s teaching artists ...

Ten years ago this month, Misty Copeland sat in front of a hastily arranged news conference at American Ballet Theatre, ...

Misty Copeland broke barriers when she was named a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre in 2015. It was at this ...

were told so many years that we don’t have the balance for ballet," he said. “Alvin Ailey proved them wrong.” Black kids often don’t see fine arts as a career, he said — not as much as ...

In memory of & tribute to my father, Sayyid Abdul-Mumit There was no callout for Black fathers to bring their children to the annual Dance Africa street festival in Brooklyn. But there they were ...

Philadelphia father Lloyd Freeman is starting a new tradition with his children and inviting other Black father figures to do the same. Photo: Getty Images Since joining the Philadelphia Ballet ...

I was like 'Why aren't there Black dancers on stage? Why do all the dancers look the same? Why are they all white?'" Durrett said. "So I hope that kids in Boston are able to come to the ballet and ...

Simply said, she was my dance teacher! She was Miss Sydney as ... the 1940s and ‘50s and she continued to train and mentor Black children at her dancing school for six decades.

On the cover was a portrait of an adolescent ballet dancer ... in scholarly books on Black children’s literature, in children’s literature courses or in research into early Black journalism.

SAN ANTONIO — The Children's Ballet of San Antonio (CBSA) is growing with its first full musical production in April. The organization is putting on Mean Girls JR at its Black Box Theatre at ...