The most famous Prima Ballerina today
Misty Copeland has had a great year. She has not just been an outstanding ballerina, her story made her a role model for young dancers.
After becoming the first African-American Female Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theater in 2015, she became an advocate for diversifying the field of ballet. She has played many roles:
💃 Serving on the advisory committee for the ABT’s Project Plié, a programme offering training and mentorship to dance teachers in racially diverse communities.
💃 Playing a black ballerina princess in „The Nutcracker and the Four Realms„, her big screen debut in a Disney Movie.
💃 As an author, publishing several books: her memoir „Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (2014), Firebird (2014) and Ballerina Body (2017)
💃 Serving as a model for a Barbie Doll, released in 2016
💃 Acting as a guest judge during the Divisional Final at NBC’s World Of Dance in 2017
Her net worth is estimated at $500.000. As a Prima Ballerina at the top of the range she earns at least $150.000. The larger earnings come from her endorsements such as Estée Lauder, Oikos, Under Armour, Seiko, Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the Disney’s film role.
Her inspiring story continued in 2019, When she stars as a dancer, shot by Albert Watson in the latest Pirelli Calendar 2019.
For more information, look on her website
Learn more about her amazing touching life story
Biography of Misty Copeland by Website of American Ballet Theatre
Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in San Pedro, California, Misty Copeland began her ballet studies at the age of 13 at the San Pedro City Ballet. At the age of fifteen she won first place in the Music Center Spotlight Awards. She then began her studies at the Lauridsen Ballet Center. Copeland has studied at the San Francisco Ballet School and American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive on full scholarship and was declared ABT’s National Coca-Cola Scholar in 2000.
Copeland joined ABT’s Studio Company in September 2000, then joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001 and was appointed a Soloist in August 2007. Her roles with the Company include Gamzatti, a Shade and the Lead D’Jampe in La Bayadère, Milkmaid in The Bright Stream, the Fairy Autumn in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella, Blossom in James Kudelka’s Cinderella, Swanilda and the Mazurka Lady in Coppélia, Gulnare and an Odalisque in Le Corsaire, Kitri, Mercedes, Driad Queen, the lead gypsy and a flower girl in Don Quixote, Duo Concertant, the Masks in Christopher Wheeldon’s VIII, Lise in Las Fille mal gardée, the Firebird in Alexei Ratmansky’s Firebird, Flower Girl in Gaîté Parisienne, Giselle, Zulma and the peasant pas de deux in Giselle, Queen of Shemakahn in The Golden Cockerel, Lescaut’s Mistress in Manon, Clara the Princess, Columbine and one of The Nutcracker’s Sisters in Alexei Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, Bianca in Othello, a Gypsy in Petrouchka, the Lead Polovtsian Girl in the Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor, the Saracen Dancer in Raymonda, Cowgirl in Rodeo, Juliet and a Harlot in Romeo and Juliet, Sinatra Suite, Princess Florine in The Sleeping Beauty, Odette-Odile, the pas de trois, a cygnet and the Hungarian Princess in Swan Lake, the Waltz in Les Sylphides, the Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Princess Praline in Whipped Cream, leading roles in Bach Partita, Birthday Offering, Brahms-Haydn Variations, Monotones I, and Thirteen Diversions, and roles in Airs, Amazed in Burning Dreams, Baker’s Dozen, Ballo della Regina, Black Tuesday, The Brahms-Haydn Variations, Brief Fling, Company B, Désir, Gong, Hereafter, In the Upper Room, Overgrown Path, Pretty Good Year, Private Light, Raymonda Divertissements,Sechs Tänze, Sinfonietta, Symphonic Variations, Within You Without You: A Tribute to George Harrison and workwithinwork.
Copeland created the Spanish Dance in Ratmansky’s The Nutcracker, the Fairy Fleur de farine (Wheat flower) in Ratmansky’s The Sleeping Beauty, His Loss in AfterEffect, and roles in AFTERITE, C. to C. (Close to Chuck), Dumbarton, Glow – Stop, Her Notes, I Feel The Earth Move, One of Three and With a Chance of Rain.
Copeland received the 2008 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Arts and was named National Youth of the Year Ambassador for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in 2013. In 2014, President Obama appointed Copeland to the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. She is the recipient of a 2014 Dance Magazine Award and was named to the 2015 TIME 100 by TIME Magazine. Copeland is the author of the best-selling memoir, Life in Motion, children’s book Firebird and Ballerina Body.
Copeland was appointed a Principal Dancer in August 2015.
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Misty Copeland in Firebird. Photo by Rosalie O’Connor (Source ABT)
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Misty Copeland ! The Juliet queen of Scala di Milano !
„Ah, will there never be
An hour where I can clasp you to my heart,
And heart to heart, and soul, to soul impart…?“
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„It was not her face, bright as it is, that won me (lilies are not more white than my lady; as if Maeotic snows contended with the reds of Spain, or rose-petals swam in purest milk) nor her hair, ordered, flowing down her smooth neck, nor her eyes, twin fires, that are my starlight, nor the girl shining in Arabian silk (I am no lover flattering for nothing): but how beautifully she dances when the wine is set aside, like Ariadne taking the lead among the ecstatic cries of the Maenads…“
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