Misty Copeland, a popular soloist with American Ballet Theatre who has become a leader in diversity for ballet, will make her American debut in “Swan Lake” with the Washington Ballet in April ...

Misty Copeland, the Missouri-born ballerina who's become a forceful voice for diversity in ballet and achieved a celebrity that far transcends that rarified world, was named principal dancer at ...

Misty Copeland is everywhere lately. She’s onstage with the American Ballet Theatre as only the third black soloist — and the first in two decades — in the company’s 75-year history.

As she retires from American Ballet Theatre, where she was its first black principal dancer, Misty Copeland talks about ...

Misty Copeland had her New York debut as the lead role in "Swan Lake" last week. — -- A fervent dream became reality today for ballerina Misty Copeland as she became the first black female ...

Misty Copeland and her co-star Brooklyn Mack have broken another barrier as the first pair of Black dancers ever to lead a mainstream production of Swan Lake! When Copeland took the stage this ...

Misty Copeland kept right on dancing — and proved the naysayers wrong.The former ballet prodigy, now 31, has become the first African-American soloist at the American Ballet Theatre in 20 years ...

Six different ballerinas will take on the starring role in “Swan Lake” when American Ballet Theatre performs the full-length production at the Kennedy Center in January, among them audience ...

For example, Copeland says at one point she was told she couldn’t perform in the second act of Swan Lake, the popular ballet first performed in late 19th-century Russia, because of her skin color.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (UPI) --Misty Copeland will star in a Washington Ballet production of Swan Lake. The 32-year-old American Ballet Theatre soloist will portray the dual role of Odette/Odile ...