at all prepared to take on what it meant to be the only...in...in the company. you're also, in ballet, kind of uniquely, all expected to be identical. i mean, that's the whole thing about...or has been over centuries. the corps de ballet looked exactly the same, they looked the same. they had the same body, they had the same outfit, they had the same skin colour. they moved identically. i mean, that was it was kind of the essence of ballet. right? and in a way, of all the many disruptive things you've done, i feel it's disrupting that notion... mm. ..of what ballet had to be. for centuries it was like that. and then you came along and we said no. i think there are so many things that i think about in terms of disrupting the field and, you know, provoking the conversation, to be really intentional about the lack of diversity. but you're right, but i have to say that i'm not the first to do it. there have been so many black
i was not at all prepared to take on what it meant to be the only...in...in the company. you're also, in ballet, kind of uniquely, all expected to be identical. i mean, that's the whole thing about...or has been over centuries. the corps de ballet looked exactly the same, they looked the same. they had the same body, they had the same outfit, they had the same skin colour. they moved identically. i mean, that was it was kind of the essence of ballet. right? and in a way, of all the many disruptive things you've done, i feel it's disrupting that notion... mm. ..of what ballet had to be. for centuries it was like that. and then you came along and we said no. i think there are so many things that i think about in terms of disrupting the field and, you know, provoking the conversation, to be really intentional about the lack of diversity. but you're right, but i have to say that i'm not the first to do it.
is an incredible woman and she was very conscious of the fact that i'm a black woman, that i was a black girl, and that i needed to be as focused on getting the training that i needed to get in order to get to where we wanted me to go, which was to dance professionally for american ballet theatre or another professional company. when i moved to new york city, it definitely was a shock. i don't think that i was prepared enough in knowing how to navigate the space where i would get support from, because it's not something that's really built in to the professional surroundings and atmosphere in a ballet company. they expect you to come in and be an adult and at 17 years old and someone who was very kind of guarded and isolated, i was not at all prepared to take on what it meant to be the only...in...in the company. you're also, in ballet, kind of uniquely, all expected to be identical.
and that i needed to be as focused on getting the training that i needed to get in order to get to where we wanted me to go, which was to dance professionally for american ballet theatre or another professional company. when i moved to new york city, it definitely was a shock. i don't think that i was prepared enough in knowing how to navigate the space where i would get support from, because it's not something that's really built in to the professional surroundings and atmosphere in a ballet company. they expect you to come in and be an adult and at 17 years old and someone who was very kind of guarded and isolated, i was not at all prepared to take on what it meant to be the only...in...in the company. you're also, in ballet, kind of uniquely, all expected to be identical. i mean, that's the whole thing about...or has been over centuries. the corps de ballet
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