Everyone faces a problem weither it’s big or small and hopefully you can or have overcome it. There are people all over the world who face problems like diversity, being judged, getting hate, or flaws. In higher levels of ballet people or teachers have an image of a “perfect ballernia” and to people Misty Copeland didn’t fit their image. Conflicts Misty would face to becoming principle ballernia is her color of skin, muscular legs, curvy body, and from sterotypes they think African Americans have flat feet. Another problem that Copeland faces is her age and what she says is, “ I absolutely love what I do, and I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I'm putting out there on the stage. But my goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.” ( Copeland)
Misty had had a rough childhood, grew up moving to new places with her …show more content…
She has made history from being the first African American principle dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. “ Yes. And I think that the reason is the racism and not wanting to change this very traditional art form that has been, you know, successful in the way it is for so long. And it's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a quarta ballet.” (Copeland) In her book “ Life in motion an unlikely ballernia” Misty kept repeating “this is for the little brown girls”. Misty wants to help all dancers of different race be able to do what they want in their dancing career. “ Fight even harder, she said because of some of the challenges she faced. First, as one of six children with a struggling single mother. Copeland told NPR, when she first started ballet lessons at 13, they were living in a motel. When Copeland started dancing professionally, she found that being biracial - half black, half white - became an issue.”
Misty had had a rough childhood, grew up moving to new places with her …show more content…
She has made history from being the first African American principle dancer at the American Ballet Theatre. “ Yes. And I think that the reason is the racism and not wanting to change this very traditional art form that has been, you know, successful in the way it is for so long. And it's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a quarta ballet.” (Copeland) In her book “ Life in motion an unlikely ballernia” Misty kept repeating “this is for the little brown girls”. Misty wants to help all dancers of different race be able to do what they want in their dancing career. “ Fight even harder, she said because of some of the challenges she faced. First, as one of six children with a struggling single mother. Copeland told NPR, when she first started ballet lessons at 13, they were living in a motel. When Copeland started dancing professionally, she found that being biracial - half black, half white - became an issue.”