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Misty Copeland on Tavis Smiley

 

Apropos of our recent discussion on race and ballet, ABT’s Misty Copeland was recently on the Tavis Smiley show. She talks about race, ballet, elitism, her training, her recent appearance onstage with Prince, the immense difficulty of ballet, and of course, Black Swan. She’s very well spoken. Go Misty!

Also, speaking of Black Swan, here’s an essay by former NYCB dancer Toni Bentley in the Daily Beast. Bentley has more guts than anyone else in the industry, that’s for damn sure. Go Toni!

Above photo of Copeland taken from Martini Pink.

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Benjamin Millepied Interview in “The Daily Beast”

“’I will never be a star,’” said Millepied, who claims to spend his down time reading and “’working a lot by myself at home. When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn’t make me want to be in that position at all.’”

Good, albeit short-ish interview with Millepied in the Daily Beast. It’s a Bauhaus tattoo on his midriff 🙂 In addition to last night’s premiere at NYCB, he apparently has another ballet premiering in the Netherlands next week – wow. And he may work with Kanye West.

See the rest of the interview here. They’ve also got a gallery of male ballet dancers, or “men in tights” rather!

I did see Millepied’s Plainspoken last night. Liked but didn’t love it. Will write about it as soon as I get a chance – this weekend probably. Today I’m going to see an alternative production of Petrouchka, and tonight a friend’s new modern dance piece. Happy Friday everyone!