{"id":59668,"date":"2024-08-08T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=59668"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:37:30","slug":"distinguished-speaker-series-presents-misty-copeland","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/gsa\/event\/distinguished-speaker-series-presents-misty-copeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Distinguished Speaker Series presents Misty Copeland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Misty Copeland<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Principal Dancer for American Ballet Theatre | New York Times Bestselling Author<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMEMORATION EVENT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Free tickets available for graduate students starting Monday, January 13th through the UB Ticket Office<\/a>.\u00a0 1 per UB ID.<\/p>\n

Public Ticket Information<\/a><\/p>\n

Wed., Feb. 12, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.
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More About Misty Copeland<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Misty Copeland is a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, the first Black woman to be promoted to the position in the company’s 75-year history in 2015. She has performed some of the most iconic classical ballet roles, including Odette\/Odile in \u201cSwan Lake;\u201d Juliet in \u201cRomeo & Juliet;\u201d \u201cGiselle;\u201d \u201cManon;\u201d \u201cCoppelia;\u201d Kitri in \u201cDon Quixote;\u201d and \u201cFirebird,\u201d to name a few.<\/p>\n

Copeland has been featured in several publications, including the cover of Time Magazine for the Time 100, as well as the covers of ESSENCE, Self, ELLE South Africa, Oxygen and Women\u2019s Health. She has also appeared on CBS’ \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d \u201cCBS Sunday Morning,\u201d ABC’s \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d NBC’s \u201cThe Today Show\u201d and \u201cLittle Big Shots,\u201d celebrating extraordinary young people.<\/p>\n

She made her first awards season guest performances in 2019 with Taylor Swift at the American Music Awards and at the 2020 Grammy Awards alongside Camilla Cabella, Common, Ben Platt, and dancers from the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, as well as the televised Prince Grammy Tribute performing with award-winning recording artist H.E.R. Copeland made her Broadway debut in \u201cOn The Town\u201d in 2015 and her major motion picture debut in Disney’s \u201cThe Nutcracker and the Four Realms\u201d in 2018. She is also featured in an episode of \u201cMasterClass,\u201d the online series.<\/p>\n

Copeland started her production company, Life In Motion Productions, focused on bringing representative stories of artists past, present and future, and normalizing the arts experience. Her first independently produced project, \u201cFlower,\u201d premiered at the Tribeca Festival in 2023 and is a silent arts activism film using dance to help raise awareness about intergenerational equity.<\/p>\n

Copeland is an avid philanthropist and is an ambassador of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, of which she is also an alum, and MindLeaps, an arts education program based in Rwanda that helps young people get off the streets and into an academic setting to help enhance their lives.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Copeland launched The Misty Copeland Foundation, with its first signature program BE BOLD, which aims to bring greater diversity, equity and inclusion to dance, especially ballet. In 2023, she launched the women\u2019s line of Greatness Wins, an athletic wear business she co-founded with Derek Jeter and Chris Riccobono.<\/p>\n

Copeland is the New York Times bestselling author of \u201cLife In Motion,\u201d \u201cBallerina Body,\u201d \u201cBlack Ballerinas,\u201d and a picture book titled \u201cBunheads.\u201d She is also author of the award-winning children’s picture book, \u201cFirebird.\u201d Copeland\u2019s newest book, \u201cThe Wind At My Back,\u201d in tribute to her late mentor and friend, pioneering ballerina Raven Wilkinson, was\u00a0 published November 2022.<\/p>\n

In 2021, Copeland was the recipient of the Spingarn Medal, the NAACP\u2019s highest honor and in 2023, she received the Trailblazer Icon Award at The Grio Awards, was named for the second time to The Root 100, and was awarded an honorary doctorate of fine arts from New York University. In 2024, Copeland received the Innovator Award from the African American Film Critics Association.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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