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 ...

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 ...

Copeland, the first Black female principal at American Ballet Theater, has announced she’s retiring. She made history, and ...

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

That thought led her to Ruth Essel, the founder of the Pointe Black ballet school in London who ... space that [Essel] had created for these kids to be unapologetically themselves,” Abodunde ...

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

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 ...

We're always looking for minorities in dance and it's just important for representation. I hope that me stepping into the role of Clara is especially inspiring brown and Black kids in the audience ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...