There's only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You're basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.
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It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.
Ballet has a very small audience, unfortunately.
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.
Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.
I am passionate about ballet.
At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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