Misty Copeland By: Meagan McKinney
On September 10, 1983 in Kanas City, Missouri a beautiful ballerina named Misty Danielle Copeland was born. Misty Copeland is a big inspiration to young dancers all over the world but had a rough time growing up! Although she started dancing at the age of thirteen she always was born to dance!
Misty's has five siblings named Erica Stephanie Copeland, Lindsey Monique Brown, Douglas Copeland Jr., Christopher Ryan Copeland, and Cameron Koa DelaCerna and has parents named Sylvia DelaCerna and Doug Copeland. Misty's family is very supportive and has a dance partner/fiance named Olu Evans and has a best friend named Leyla! Misty Copeland loves her family and friends very much and is very apprecative of dancing at the American Ballet Theatre!
Misty Copeland started her wonderful career at the age of thirteen a in San Pedro, California on her school drill team. Her drill team coach recommended that she should take lessons at her local boys and girls club and then she did and she was taught lessons by her ballet pointe teacher Cynthia Bradley on November 25, 1995! Then after a few months later she was in pointe shoes! On December 1, 1997 Misty won first place for best soloist dancer at the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight award at the age of 15 and then a month later she won again at the same competition! Then on January 1st 2010 Misty Copeland performs with a ballet with the legendary Prince on his Welcome 2 America Tour and then two years later she gets awarded to the Boys and Girls Club national hall of fame for being such an inspiration! Then on June 30th she gets performs the amazing ballet piece as the main character of Firebird for the American Ballet Theatre (ABT)! Also Misty Danielle Copeland performed the Swan Lake Ballet( which was incerdible in my opinion)

Misty Copeland in performing the astonishing Firebird Ballet

Misty performing the Swan Lake Ballet and she stuns the crowd!!
Misty Danielle Copeland gets promoted by the American Ballet Theatre on August 25th, 2007 of becoming an amazing ballet soloist and then rose up from being the 3rd african american soloist to becoming principal dancer on June 30th 2015! And that's what she is famous for becoming the first African american principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre!!
Misty Copeland is a very inspirational woman who is inspiring young dancers to change the world! Also she is such a great dancer and is a big african american hero! Misty Danielle Copeland was told so many bad about how she couldn't dance because she was to athlectic so she pushed through all of those negative comments and now she is changing ballet history!