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Podcast: How She Does It
Episode: Becoming America’s Most Beloved Ballerina With Misty Copeland
Description: To be a ballet dancer, you must be a dancer, an athlete, and a performer all at the same time. It is a competitive and complex hierarchy, with thousands of dancers funneling to just a small handful at the very top. And that tiny percentage of ballerinas at the pinnacle has looked the same for over 100 years… There is an overwhelming lack of diversity in the professional ballet world, and the prevalent stereotypes persist around who achieves success. Misty Copeland turned these notions on their head when she became American Ballet Theatre’s first Black Principal dancer and b...