Category: dancer
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You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.
Martha Graham
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My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I’m in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn’t know anything about it.
Misty Copeland
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There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn’t be capable of going onstage and performing live theater. It’s extremely demanding. I have to be in ballet class every day.
Misty Copeland
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Depending on the level you’re at in your company, the higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance.
Misty Copeland
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Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so I was going off on my own and imagining what I thought stability was. Ballet became a way for me to cope.
Misty Copeland
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My family didn’t have very much money, so ballet wasn’t even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.
Misty Copeland
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Ballet was so structured. I’d been craving something that could guide me.
Misty Copeland
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Barack Obama being President of the United States doesn’t mean racism has disappeared. It’s all a process, and we have to be aware that the work never ends.
Misty Copeland
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It’s a European art form, and you’re used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don’t look like a lot of the girls around me.
Misty Copeland
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham