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With credentials spanning from Beyoncé’s world tours, to acting and modeling, professional dancer Ashley Everett has a list of to-do’s as lengthy as her resumè. This past June, Allure Magazine sat down the A-list performer for a play-by-play of how she makes it from sunrise to showtime.
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International Dance Day is a cross-cultural celebration of movement that started in 1982 by the Dance Committee of ITI. It is held on April 29th of every year, to commemorate the birthday of the ballet master Jean-Georges Noverre. International Dance Day highlights the benefits of dance as a str...
History is brimming with unsung heroes, iconoclasts who broke the mold only to go under appreciated and undocumented. The bond that synthesizes modern day activists and artists like Misty Copeland with their predecessors is a spirit of perseverance that is specific to the Black experience. A swa...
In this article by Black business insider theGrio, Nude Barre founder Erin Carpenter is interviewed about her transition from professional dancer to burgeoning entrepreneur. Writer Danielle James details Carpenter’s journey from a $3,000 savings to a $1.4 million investment from tennis star Ser...
HuffPost chronicled the origins of ballet and the Euro-classical ethos that echoes through the aesthetics of the form today. Citing the iconic 19th century Edgar Degas painting, Examen de Danse, writer Rohina Katoch Sehra explains how beauty and artistry were coalesced with whiteness. This is per...
The sun softly simmers my skin through the window. The heat prompts me into consciousness. The sounds of my city monopolize my senses. The fog swallowing my brain subsides.
I think of butterflies. Monarchs. Morphos. Swallowtails.
What does it mean to be defined by your potential? To be pl...