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The groundbreaking ballerina who’s spent decades making history at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre is showing why institutional knowledge is a forever practice.
Aug. 15, 2023
Entertainment & Arts
Ballet star Misty Copeland says diverse pointe-shoe emojis would help ensure that ballet ‘in all its forms, celebrates every dancer’s story and shade.’
Sept. 25, 2023
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Aug. 24, 2023
Michaela DePrince, whose dance career spanned several ballet companies and collaborations with Beyoncé and Madonna, died last week. She was 29.
Sept. 16, 2024
Movies
Now in his 70s, a once-obscure musician finds renewed appreciation in the documentary ‘Keyboard Fantasies.’
Nov. 1, 2021
Shemekia Copeland steps to the lip of the stage and lets forth a cry that could carry for miles.
Nov. 29, 2017
Co-starring Tyrese Gibson and Ray Liotta, Ariel Vromen’s low-grade crime movie lunges for unearned sociopolitical depth by using the L.A. riots as set dressing.
Aug. 29, 2024
Dancer Misty Copeland has a new book out for children, ‘Bunheads,’ the story of a young Copeland in her first ballet class and first dance production — the classic ballet ‘Coppelia.’
Sept. 28, 2020
Opinion
Ballet’s Misty Copeland turns to Twitter to try to make people understand why a photo of two Bolshoi dancers in blackface is offensive.
Jan. 12, 2020
Pasadena Symphony has its holiday concert, “Snow White” gets a panto-style makeover, and She & Him bring their Christmas show to DTLA.
Dec. 11, 2019