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When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.
Misty Copeland
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Misty Copeland
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 10
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Misty Danielle Copeland
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I just try to approach every opportunity on stage, as if it's my first time and my last time.
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I don't think every African-American or Latino have the same body type, but, yes, that's been one of the excuses ... saying that African-Americans are too muscular or just aren't lean enough. Usually they say, Oh, they have flat feet so they just don't have the flexibility that it takes to create the line in a point shoe.
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That it's possible to do positive things and I think that's how we're going to set an example to be respected as women in the world.
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I shouldn't even be wearing a tutu. I don't have the right legs, my muscles are too big.
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Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.
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The word prodigy was thrown around a lot, but I didn't understand what that meant, or the weight of it. It didn't really mean anything to me, until I was older and could look back on it.
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The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.
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I absolutely love what I do, and I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I am putting out there on the stage.
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But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.
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The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was not aware of how rare it was to be an African American, how rare it was to have four years of training under my belt, and how, even though I could imitate people and fake it, unprepared I was to become a professional.
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I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.
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I've gotten nothing but warmth from the Black community and positive feedback.
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Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it's just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.
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I definitely like to be natural and more relaxed and not wear a lot of makeup.
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The woman represents ballet. She is most important, powerful and vital to it. Therefore, she is not less than a man. If anything she is more than in this field.
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I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.
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My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.
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My body is very different from most of the dancers I dance with. My hair is different than most I dance with. But I didn't let that stop me. Black girls rock and can be ballerinas.
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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.
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I was 17 when I moved to NYC . I'm now 32. But I do know I can't see myself living anywhere else. I love the food, the fashion, art, the intelligence of this city and the people that live in it.
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