Ballet Nouveau Academy of Dance’s BALLET PROJECT is committed to educating today’s youth in a complete training program that generates the accessibility of ballet to multi-cultural communities within Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. The Ballet Project partners directly…
Brown Girls Do Ballet – Empowering Young Girls With Ballet
Brown Girls Do Ballet is a start-up organization dedicated to promoting ethnic diversity in ballet programs through various media platforms, training resources, and an exclusive network in the world of ballet. Brown Girls Do Ballet is part of Brown Girls…
Project Plié – American Ballet Theatre
In September 2013, American Ballet Theatre announced the formation of Project Plié, a comprehensive initiative to increase racial and ethnic representation in ballet and diversify America’s ballet companies. Project Plié seeks to combine training and support of ballet students from…
Black Ballerina – Classical Ballet Documentary Film
BLACK BALLERINA, a feature length documentary-in-progress, is a story of passion, opportunity, heartbreak and triumph of the human spirit. Set in the overwhelmingly white world of classical dance, it tells the stories of several black women from different generations who fell…
Project Plié – Tackling Ballet’s Ethnic Diversity Problem
Ballet has a lily-white reputation. The great “ballet blanc” works glorify white swans, white shades and white sylphs. And ballet goers might expect some progress in racial diversity onstage, especially in the U.S., where populations of color are growing. But comb the…
Pointe Magazine Features Black Ballerinas On Cover
For its annual career issue, Pointe enlists Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Ashley Murphy, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s Ebony Williams and the American Ballet Theater’s Misty Copeland to discuss an ongoing problem in ballet communities: lack of ethnic diversity. This isn’t…