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Authors: Misty Copeland

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guest performances in,
100
–101
in rehearsal,
219
role of Clara in,
87
,
101
,
139
,
160
,
161
Olu (friend),
194
–97,
214
,
221
Osipova, Natalia,
240
,
249
Pacific Northwest Ballet,
97
,
98
Palos Verdes Art Center,
62
Paquita
,
145
Paris Opera Ballet,
98
Pavam, Renata,
153
Peterson, Kirk,
139
,
144
–45,
224
Petite Mort
,
230
Phillips, Jackie,
11
–12,
30
,
111
“Please Mr. Postman,”
20
,
247
Pointe
magazine,
74
,
115
Point Fermin Elementary School,
16
,
26
,
89
Poitier, Sidney,
77
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.,
192
Premice, Josephine,
181
Prince,
213
–25,
235
,
242
“The Beautiful Ones,”
220
,
222
“Crimson and Clover” video,
214
–15,
219
,
223
European tour of,
216
–18
in performance,
216
,
217
,
218
,
221
,
226
,
236
,
260
photo shoot with,
218
–19
Purple Rain
,
214
,
220
rehearsals with,
220
–21
Welcome to America tour,
219
,
220
,
222
Princess Grace Foundation,
201
–2,
229
–30
prodigy, use of term,
71
–72
Project Plié,
260
Push Comes to Shove
,
149
,
151
,
224
Ratmansky, Alexei,
4
–5,
239
–40,
243
Ratto, Kaylen,
128
,
138
,
213
Ray (mother’s friend),
55
,
58
–60,
68
Raymonda
,
109
Reina (friend),
26
,
31
Richardson, David,
225
Robert (stepfather),
18
background of,
14
–15
and Cameron,
61
,
83
,
110
home of,
16
,
21
,
46
,
126
leaving,
24
,
47
,
53
–55,
57
,
61
,
68
,
86
life with,
46
–48,
49
–52,
53
,
59
,
75
,
211
and Misty’s childhood,
22
,
24
and Misty’s teen years,
47
–48,
49
,
203
racism of,
51
–52,
53
,
174
,
208
temper of,
48
,
50
,
54
,
126
Robinson, Smokey,
232
Romeo and Juliet
,
74
,
262
Rowell, Victoria,
179
–81,
182
,
188
Royal Ballet (London),
98
,
178
,
229
Royal Danish Ballet,
98
,
229
Ryder, Winona,
74
Salstein, Craig,
152
,
201
–2
San Francisco, summers in,
100
,
103
,
109
,
114
,
204
San Francisco Ballet,
97
–98,
139
,
140
,
163
offer to Misty from,
104
,
108
,
111
–12,
113
,
118
summer program,
99
,
102
–6,
107
–9,
113
,
119
,
129
,
135
San Pedro, California,
14
–16,
133
–34,
146
,
174
Boys and Girls Club,
30
,
32
–33,
42
,
56
,
185
San Pedro Ballet School,
36
–38
San Pedro Dance Center,
41
–43,
66
,
70
,
92
,
117
,
129
San Pedro High School,
85
,
87
,
119
,
125
–26,
127
Segerstrom Center for the Arts,
242
,
244
Serrano, Lupe,
92
Sleeping Beauty
,
2
–3,
105
Grand Pas de Deux
,
230
–31
pas de deux
,
152
Puss in Boots,
229
Special Olympics,
85
Spotlight Awards,
90
–91,
95
,
96
,
97
,
135
,
136
,
139
,
183
,
202
Squire, Gilda,
227
Stravinsky, Igor,
1
,
237
Studio Museum, Harlem,
227
Stuttgart Ballet,
98
Sunset Inn,
60
–61,
64
,
65
,
68
,
83
,
115
,
116
,
123
,
126
,
127
Swan Lake
,
165
,
192
,
197
,
243
,
262
African American/black dancers in,
173
–76
danse des petits cygnes
,
172
–74
pas de trois
,
230
TV broadcast of,
173
–74
as “white ballet,”
174
Sylvia
,
175
,
185
Tarantella
,
201
–2
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilich,
105
,
172
Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
,
221
Tharp, Twyla,
149
–50,
224
Tómasson, Helgi,
111
–12
Turning Point, The
(film),
148

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