Black Ballerina is available to stream on pbs.org ... Woman: Ballet, it's a white world. Of the ballet company, the corps has to be lily white, and the soloist has to have what they prescribe ...

And you wrote - I'm quoting it here... (Reading) Ballet has always been about the body - the white body specifically. So they watched my Black body, waited for it to confirm their prejudices ...

Cuffy draws a complicated portrait of an artist as a young Black woman within the restrictive world of classical ballet, a world built upon the logical fallacies of white supremacy. Cece’s mind ...

roles that were previously reserved for white dancers are now available to dancers of color. In fact, it is becoming the norm in some dance companies. Ballet Nouveau, a Black-owned conservatory in ...

Ballet sneakers have been slowly gaining ... The strap style is simple enough to work with your go-to favorite black trousers and a white button-down, for an easy, casual office look.

An adoptive mother, I was the only white woman in the studio that day ... But the ritual was an essential one; it staked a Black ballerina’s right to her artistry. Even as companies have ...

This is not just a ballet book; it’s about creating something ... We received flak from both Black and white people—Black people questioning why we were engaging in what they saw as the ...

and hardly any Black men. “If you look at the art form generally and you look at ballet companies across the country, you are going to see audiences that are likely to be majority white. We want to ...