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âBrown Ballerinas for Changeâ working to diversify the arts
âBrown Ballerinas for Changeâ working to diversify the arts By Jasmine Turner | February 19, 2021 at 2:46 PM EST - Updated March 13 at 7:50 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Since going viral through a photo at the Lee Monument, four teenage dancers have been advocating for social justice and change, and working towards diversifying the arts.
Ava Holloway, Kennedy George and Sophia Chambliss and Ava Holloway, dancers at the Central Virginia Dance Academy cofounded âBrown Ballerinaâs for Changeâ over the summer, as they continued to gain popularity and requests for performances following the photo.
A Reuters photographer saw the young Black dancers standing proudly
en pointe in front of the graffiti-laced statue; they were wearing black tutus and raising their fists in a symbol of strength. She asked if she could take their picture, and when Reuters posted the photo to social media, it went viral. Fast.
The image almost instantly became an iconic photo of the Black Lives Matter movement, with celebrities retweeting it and national publications such as Vanity Fair and Vogue running the photo with stories on the Confederate statues and Black Lives Matter.
Kennedy and Ava suddenly found themselves in a position to be a voice for change. And they decided to use it.