KQEH Tavis Smiley September 20, 2014
Penned by contributions to your pbs station. From viewers like you. Thank you. Misty copeland defied the ballet pundits who insisted she did not look like a classical ballerina, which was frankly a veiled way of saying africanamericans and classical ballet dont mix. Shes proved all those naysayers wrong, acclaimed soloist with the american ballet theater. In australia she performed odele and odet in swan lake. I asked misty why ballet is considered an elite art form. Just because i think it takes money, you know, to get the right training and so, therefore, it has been considered an elite art ...