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How Misty Copeland Turned Instability Into Ballet

How Misty Copeland Turned Instability Into Ballet

Good Inside with Dr. Becky vor 1 Monat

Dr. Becky talks with the first Black woman to become a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre about the years she was asked to paint her skin to match the rest of the corps, the mentors who taught her to advocate for herself, and what confidence look

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Misty Copeland grew up sleeping on a motel floor with five
siblings, unsure where the next meal was coming from. At 13, she
walked into her first ballet class and felt something she'd never
felt before: safe. Dr. Becky talks with the first Black woman to
become a principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre about the
years she was asked to paint her skin to match the rest of the
corps, the mentors who taught her to advocate for herself, and
what confidence looks like once you stop having to prove it.
Plus: how she's raising her own son with the stability she spent
her childhood without, and why she still wants him to struggle a
little.

Misty Copeland has written a new book for middle grade readers
called “Firebird Waltz” - the first in a new series called Star
Fire Academy.

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