Title

Fashion Culture: Misty Copeland in conversation with Valerie Steele

Contributor Names

Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum

Copeland, Misty

Steele, Valerie

Date

2014-11-04

Description

Misty Copeland is a soloist with American Ballet Theatre. In 2007 she made history by becoming their second African American Female Soloist and the first in two decades. In September 2014, she was the first black woman to perform the lead role of Odette/Odile in American Ballet Theatre's production of Swan Lake during the company's first ever tour to Australia. Misty is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Life in Motion (2014), co-written with Charisse Jones, and of the picture book Firebird (2014) in collaboration with Christopher Myers.

Misty Copeland was in conversation with Valerie Steele at The Museum at FIT on Tuesday, November 4, 2014.

Type

Moving Image

Exhibitions

Subject

Dance costume

Fashion design

Ballet

Costume

Dance

Copeland, Misty

African American dancers

Ballerinas

Rights

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Identifier

FIT Repository ID: aod_000467