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A Ballet Swap-eroo

Big ballet news today! American Ballet Theatre just announced a transatlantic “dancer exchange.” OK, yes, when I first heard that, I started hyperventilating a little. Were any of my darling ABT people going to be, uh, “traded” to some European team? But fear not: This exchange is for a few guest performances only, giving audiences […]

Misty Copeland—and Six Other Dancers—Promoted at ABT!

Unless you’ve been living in some strange internet-less hole, you probably already know that yesterday was a HUGE day for the ballet world. American Ballet Theatre announced seven (count ’em!) promotions—and one of them was the extraordinary Misty Copeland, who’s now the company’s first African-American female principal. From Copeland’s epic Under Armour campaign—she willed what […]