Irving Penn, American Ballet Theatre, 1947. Back row, from left: Hugh Laing, John Kriza, and Igor Ivanovich Youskevitch. Front row, from left: Muriel Bentley, Alicia Alonso, Anthony Tudor, Oliver Smith, Dimitri Romanoff, Lucia Chase, Nora Kaye, Max Goberman. Photo © Irving Penn. Courtesy of Cuban Art News. |
She was caught between her impoverished mother and the ballet mistress who offered her a way out. Aaron Hicklin meets Misty Copeland, the first black principal at the American Ballet Theatre. [Read more].
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Misty Copeland as Odette in Swan Lake in 2015 for the Washington Ballet. Photo: Theo Kossenas Photography.
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