Gorgeous.

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing the pics. I'm sure the performance was wonderful!

onlyforaminute said:

EmmaMcG said:

Coming from someone who did ballet for 8 years and was really quite good at it, I could never sit through an entire show. It's so boring to watch. So well done. By the way, I've seen quite a few posts about Misty recently on here. Who is she??

She has worked with Prince. She's considered a prodigy since she didn't even start doing ballet until she was 13. She came from a pretty unsteady background. She is now the first African-American to be a principle dancer for the American Ballet Theatre one of the top 3 leading ballet companies in the US, in it's 75 year history.

She was in Disney's The Nutcracker and The Four Realms which I saw and then is snowballed from there when I heard she was performing in OC this month.

EmmaMcG said:

Coming from someone who did ballet for 8 years and was really quite good at it, I could never sit through an entire show. It's so boring to watch. So well done. By the way, I've seen quite a few posts about Misty recently on here. Who is she??

Here's the page on Misty's website about her background. www.mistycopeland.com/about-2/ And an article about her friendship and work with Prince: www.tvovermind.com/explor...riendship/

pinkcashmere23 said:

onlyforaminute said:

EmmaMcG said:

Coming from someone who did ballet for 8 years and was really quite good at it, I could never sit through an entire show. It's so boring to watch. So well done. By the way, I've seen quite a few posts about Misty recently on here. Who is she??

She has worked with Prince. She's considered a prodigy since she didn't even start doing ballet until she was 13. She came from a pretty unsteady background. She is now the first African-American to be a principle dancer for the American Ballet Theatre one of the top 3 leading ballet companies in the US, in it's 75 year history.

She was in Disney's The Nutcracker and The Four Realms which I saw and then is snowballed from there when I heard she was performing in OC this month.

See http://prince.org/msg/5/454535

EmmaMcG said:

pinkcashmere23 said:

Here's the page on Misty's website about her background. www.mistycopeland.com/about-2/ And an article about her friendship and work with Prince: www.tvovermind.com/explor...riendship/

Thanks for the links.

You're welcome. Thanks to Lovejunky for sharing them in the first Misty thread.

Are you going to tell us what role she danced?

Genesia said:

Are you going to tell us what role she danced?

Princess Clara

Ballet is so brutal.

Remember this controversy?

CynicKill said:

I love ballet. Svetlana Zakharova is my favorite and is who I watch mostly. She apparently has not danced in The Nutcracker and so I have never seen it.

Cheers to Misty. I've had her ballet shoes because I love to walk around in ballet shoes. :swan:

CynicKill said:

Ballet is so brutal.

Remember this controversy?

I remember it. I remember that I didn't think Natalie did it all herself. She and Mila dropped about 20 pounds, but did not learn 20 years of dance just like that. But I didn't care, I loved the movie.

Ever see Black Swan?

2freaky4church1 said:

iZsaZsa said:

iZsaZsa said:

CatB said:

iZsaZsa said:

I love ballet. Svetlana Zakharova is my favorite

Mine too! She's amazing. Her Sheherazade was perfection.

They should put her to twirl in jewelry boxes.

She's darling, I just sent for a copy.