"Whenever I'm going to watch something, I barely see any dancers that look like me. Maybe just one in the background." It was ...

She's American Ballet Theatre's first Black female principal dancer. Misty Copeland uses her voice to advocate for representation -- not only in dance, but also in the world -- and says she feels she ...

Ten years ago this month, Misty Copeland sat in front of a hastily arranged news conference at American Ballet Theatre, fighting back tears of pride over her new role: principal dancer. “This is it,” ...

Copeland: I was aware, of course, that I was a black girl, but I don’t think I really understood how rare it was to see a Black woman, in particular, in ballet. Now she’s opening up about what she ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Ballet Afrique founder China Smith has been creating a safe space for Black dancers in East Austin for the last 17 years. Her ballet technique classes have all the makings of ...

GREENVILLE — When Whitney Huell started to travel outside of Columbia for ballet, she noticed something. "I was like, 'Wow. There's nobody that looks like me,'" she said. But growing up in Columbia, ...

Chandler Maria Bingham, a dancer in her seventh season with PearlArts Movement & Sound, is at Field Day in Lawrenceville, sipping a lavender chai — one of her favorites. Her hair, in box braids, ...

Copeland made history as American Ballet Theater's first Black female principal dancer Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was ...

The town’s library is hosting Into the Light: Pioneers of Black British Ballet exhibition, bringing together archive photography, film, newspaper articles and posters. The national initiative has been ...