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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Influential with Katty Kay 20240604 03:40:00

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

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Influential with Katty Kay 20240604 03:41:00

dancers that have that have come into professional ballet companies and been the only or been one of maybe two. and it hasn t always been accepted. you know, for the most part, a lot of the black dancers that have been taken into elite professional companies have lighter skin or are biracial because they can more easily fit in. they can pancake their skin to be a lighter colour, to fit in with the rest of the corps de ballet. would it be harder if you had darker skin, would you be. ..misty copeland ? absolutely it would be harder. i mean, there are so many dancers that have the talent. this is not an issue of not being able to find talented black and brown dancers. this is an issue of not having the support, not having the access or opportunity and not being. ..not being seen as equal. all the girls put on powder, but you re being asked to put on the same colour powder, pancake.

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Influential with Katty Kay 20240604 03:31:00

school in london and i didn t get in, which was just as well, because i d have been way in the back stage of the corps de ballet, kind of ideally out of the set. but i ve wanted to meet you for so long. oh, wow. ..so that s great. so, when you come onto a stage, misty. ..having not danced since 2019. mm hm. ..how are we feeling? how s your body doing? erm. ..i mean, it s like different air up here. yeah. you know, like i say. rarified. yeah, it s. ..like this very sacred space to be in. it s magic, you know, what we get to do up here? one of my favourite things to do is to be on the stage before the.you know, ..they let the house, they open the house, they let the audience in, i always am on the stage by myself. it s a different, very different feeling than being in a studio. the mirrors, you know, it s a completely different depth that you have to get used to. it changes your centre of gravity, your balance, everything. yeah. so it s something that i always

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Creative Outlet s Corps de Ballet perform the Waltz of the Snowflakes from the Nutcracker by DouglasMorley

Creative Outlet s Corps de Ballet perform the Waltz of the Snowflakes from the Nutcracker by DouglasMorley
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