We are happy to invite you to Dekatur Club Private Event Screening of the documentary “A Ballerina’s tale” directed by Nelson George.
A Ballerina's Tale is a 2015 documentary film revolving around the career of Misty Copeland, who serves as the narrator of the film as well as its subject.
Few dancers make it to the highest levels of
classical ballet. Of that already small number only a fraction of them are black women.
Misty Copeland, from the small California city of San Pedro, has pulled herself up the ladder at American Ballet Theater (ABT) from the studio company to the corps de ballet to soloist.
The only rung in the ladder left to climb is principal dancer aka prima ballerina.
In 2013, after more than a decade at American Ballet Theatre Misty was offered the lead role in Igor Stravinsky's Firebird to be performed at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, a major coup for a soloist.
She is the first African American principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre in the History.
