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It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.

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When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.

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Depending on the level you're at in your company, the higher you go up in rank, usually the longer you can dance.

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I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really been my power, I feel.

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That something that I fought so hard for throughout the beginning of my career is I didn't want to pancake my skin a lighter color to fit into the... ballet. I wanted to be myself. I didn't want to have to wear makeup that made my nose look thinner.

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It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.

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I love heels. I'm 5-foot-2, and I like feeling tall.

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Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience. And you do, I don't know, four pirouettes. You jump higher than you ever have. And it's just this really magical thing that happens in those moments.

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My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.

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Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: September 10th, 1982

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