Companies are pledging to change.
."Only recently have efforts been made in the way of tights, leotards, ballet flats," she said."Out of all my numerous pairs of tights that I've acquired over the years, I can honestly say only one or two match my skin tone and I got them this year." And pointe shoes — the subject of her post and the petition — are even farther behind, Bell added.
," said Ingrid Silva, a Brazilian-born ballerina with the Dance Theatre of Harlem, in a 2018 interview withMisty Copeland, the first and only Black female principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, summed up the full impact."There's so many underlying, subliminal messages that have been sent to people of color from the time ballet was created," she told.
The industry appears, at last, to be listening. On June 10, the Capezio CEO Michael Terlizzi responded to the outcry on the company's Facebook page, saying,"of our local dance community who want pointe shoes that reflect the color of their skin, and now will offer our two most popular pointe shoe styles as an in stock item available worldwide, Fall of 2020[,] in darker shades.
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